In the Mountains of Morazon

by Mandy Macdonald, Mike Gatehouse

After years of exile in neighbouring Honduras, 8,000 refugees returned to the mountains of Morazan in El Salvador. There they founded Segundo Montes City, named after a Jesuit priest killed by the army.In the Mountains of Morazan is the extraordinary story of Segundo Montes, told by the community's men and women, and interspersed with vivid descriptions of daily life in this remote corner of El Salvador. Alongside memories of war and exile, thorny questions are raised about the community's development.Can Segundo Montes survive without foreign aid? How far has it been absorbed into national society? Have the 1992 Peace Accords healed the wounds of a violent past?

224 pages, Paperback

First published December 6, 1994

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[Mandy Macdonald · Rating 5 out of 5]

To clarify: I am only one of the authors of this book; my co-author is Michael Gatehouse. For some reason -- probably my own unfamiliarity with Goodreads procedures -- this information doesn't appear in the details of the book. Since i can't claim full authorship, i can says it's a book we're proud of, telling a fascinating tale of a unique social experiment in a war zone.