![]() ![]() ![]() He introduced her to military and political leaders, guerrilla fighters, campesinos, business titans, U. He convinced her to travel to El Salvador to witness firsthand the brutality, poverty and exploitation of Salvadoran society. One day, a Salvadoran coffee farmer, Leonel Gómez Vides, a cousin of a friend of hers, arrived at her door in San Diego. The story of how she came to that country unfolds slowly. Young, naive, with limited command of Spanish and knowing little of the country's history, she was drawn in the late 1970s into the reality of life for Salvadorians. Witnessing evil creates grave memories, but such memory, she believes, can serve as the basis for both hope and resistance.įorché was an unlikely candidate to tell this gripping story of atrocity. The book's subtitle, "A Memoir of Witness and Resistance," indicates Forché's intent. As a 27-year-old recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Forché traveled to El Salvador in 1978 and witnessed events that would subsequently engulf the country for 12 years and lead to more than 75,000 dead and thousands more exiled or disappeared. ![]()
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