![]() ![]() ![]() Both women subsequently fled the country as a result of death threats and now live in Mexico. We'll have to see if my way and yours will meetand grow." Two particularly fascinating pieces chronicle the same event from opposite perspectives: journalists Laura Restrepo, part of the Colombian government peace commission, and Olga Behar, accompanying the guerrillas, cover attempted negotiations between the two groups. Uruguayan Clara Piriz's "Marriage by Pros and Cons" is a letter to her husband, a political prisoner, whom she hasn't seen for 12 years: "In my own way I love you. ![]() his lips." She and her mother watched in silence (so they would not share the guerrilla's fate) as her brother was covered with gasoline and burned to death. Rigoberta Menchu, a Guatemalan Indian, describes how soldiers "pulled out my little brother's fingernails, they had cut off parts of his ears and. ![]() His master's thesis explored ways in which fiction can challenge historical accounts of the past, and his dissertation, analyzing the stories of Central American war refugees, focused on the themes of identity, home, and forgiveness. They relate their harrowing, valuable stories through essays, fiction, poetry and correspondence. Steven Mayers is a writer, oral historian, and professor at the City College of San Francisco.He has interviewed Central American migrants for over a decade. Partnoy (The Little School: Tales of Disappearance & Survival in Argentina), who was imprisoned during Argentina's military dictatorship, gives voice to women from eight politically oppressive Latin American countries. ![]()
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