- He is survived by his wife, Gabriela Esquivada; his children- Tomas, Gonzalo, Ezequiel, Paula, Blas, Javier, and Sol-Ana, and many grandchildren. His previous wife, Susana Rotker-Martinez, a former Rutgers University professor, was hit by a truck and killed in 2000.
- He had homes in Buenos Aires, Argentina and in Highland Park, New Jersey.
- He fled to Paris and later to Venezuela before coming to the United States in the 1980s where he taught at the University of Maryland in College Park and later at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey where he taught in the Spanish and Portuguese Department from 1995 until his death.
- He escaped an assassination attempt in 1975 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- He interviewed the exiled General Juan Domingo Peron in Madrid, Spain in the 1970s.
- He earned a Bachelor's degree in Spanish and Latin American Literature from the National University of Tucuman in Tucaman, Argentina. He earned his Master's Degree from the University of Paris in France.
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