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Red Thread: A Spiritual Journal of Accompaniment, Trauma and Healing
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Published January 1, 2001
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April 23, 2024
Thanks to Becca Renk of Casa Benjamin Linder in Managua, Nicaragua, for recommending this book to me.
Moving personal account of accompaniment by a US person in Nicaragua during the years 1984 through 1989 and the years beyond, during the US-backed war against the Nicaraguan people.
The Forward is very helpful in giving context to this 2001 publication, and the Historical Background provides invaluable information to set up the author's narrative.
I appreciate the telling of events I recall and perhaps thought I understood, such as the crisis in Corinto in November 1984, when a US destroyer ship sat off the coast in violation of Nicaraguan waters. I am amazed at the resolve of the Witness for Peace workers in carrying out their non-violent, unarmed action of taking a shrimp boat out to meet the destroyer and insist that it leave.
Many segments of the book are heartbreaking as they tell the stories of the people the author is accompanying. I found especially meaningful the entry from April 29, 1987, when the Witness for Peace workers in El Achiote learn that Ben Linder is dead. "The contras killed him last night. He was in San Jose de Bocay checking a water source for output when he was murdered with two Nicaraguans. . . . Ben is the first U.S. citizen to be killed by the contras."
I appreciate reading this book while in Nicaragua as I prepare to visit San Jose de Bocay on the anniversary of Ben Linder's death and Matagalpa, where he was buried.
Moving personal account of accompaniment by a US person in Nicaragua during the years 1984 through 1989 and the years beyond, during the US-backed war against the Nicaraguan people.
The Forward is very helpful in giving context to this 2001 publication, and the Historical Background provides invaluable information to set up the author's narrative.
I appreciate the telling of events I recall and perhaps thought I understood, such as the crisis in Corinto in November 1984, when a US destroyer ship sat off the coast in violation of Nicaraguan waters. I am amazed at the resolve of the Witness for Peace workers in carrying out their non-violent, unarmed action of taking a shrimp boat out to meet the destroyer and insist that it leave.
Many segments of the book are heartbreaking as they tell the stories of the people the author is accompanying. I found especially meaningful the entry from April 29, 1987, when the Witness for Peace workers in El Achiote learn that Ben Linder is dead. "The contras killed him last night. He was in San Jose de Bocay checking a water source for output when he was murdered with two Nicaraguans. . . . Ben is the first U.S. citizen to be killed by the contras."
I appreciate reading this book while in Nicaragua as I prepare to visit San Jose de Bocay on the anniversary of Ben Linder's death and Matagalpa, where he was buried.
November 25, 2018
An informative and visual recollection of the Contra War in Nicaragua from a third-party interventionist for peace.
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