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Title: DISAPPEARED
A JOURNALIST SILENCED
By: June Carolyn Erlick, Stephen Kinzer (Foreword)
Format: Paperback

List price: £9.99


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ISBN 10: 1580051138
ISBN 13: 9781580051132
Publisher: AVALON PUBLISHING GROUP
Pub. date: 30 September, 2004
Pages: 256
Synopsis: On a quiet October evening in 1980, Guatemalan journalist Irma Flaquer, returning to her downtown apartment after a visit with her four-year-old grandson, was dragged from her car, never to be seen again. Founder of the first Guatemalan Human Rights Commission, she was a crusading reporter who did not tolerate corruption or repression. Best known for her weekly column that ran for over twenty years in various Guatemalan newspapersLo Que Otros Callan or "What Others Don't Dare Write"Flaquer criticized presidents, politicians, and the heads of the Roman Catholic Church, and championed the rights of the disenfranchised, in some cases, making and breaking political regimes. A tenacious detractor of U. S. -backed, corrupt Guatemalan governments, Flaquer survived government-organized beatings, a car bomb that riddled her body with shrapnel, and drive-by shootings of her newspaper office, refusing exile and continuing her call for freedom and democracy until her abduction. Disappeared paints a gripping and complicated portrait both of a vibrant woman with a passionate vision and of an emerging nation, struggling against the strictures of Cold War politics and behind-the-scenes U. S. involvement."
Illustrations: , black & white illustrations
Publication: US
Imprint: Avalon Publishing Group
Returns: Returnable
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