"A book not only for those interested in Guatamala, but forthose who want to know what makes people give up everything and fight for justice-everyw...
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Nov 23, 2008
Jonathan
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This book does not make for easy reading, it is after all about civil war and the brutality visited upon the indigenous peoples of Guatemala by the US backed military government. The story is told via various interviews held with Guatemalan guerilla fighters and includes some poignant and memorable passages. However, one major limitation of the book is that it fails to set all of the oral history contained within it in context.
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Jan 23, 2010
Betsy
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This is a collection of first-person narratives about what happened in Guatemala in 1985-86, at the height of the state-sponsored kidnappings, torture, and executions of the indigenous population. You hear why people joined the movement, what they witnessed being done to their friends and families, what life was like living in the mountains and being hunted by the US-trained (school of the americas) Guatemalan army, and why it was important for each of them to remain in the struggle. Some moment
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Sep 05, 2010
Jackie
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This is a book I've been meaning to read for years. Jennifer Harbury began working with the revolutionaries in the 1980s. Later she married a Guatemalan companero, who was captured by the Guatemalan army. Most of the time she did not know whether he was alive or dead. (He finally did die after several years of torture.) But being married to a companero gave her close look at the life of other companeros and companeras whose lives mostly ended in torture and death. But the revolutionaries f
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Aug 09, 2011
Bethany
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Excellent testimonies-- heart-wrenching yet hopeful. The interviews reflect perfectly the sentiments of those that I conducted myself in Guatemala.
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