I Was Never Alone: A Prison Diary from El Salvador
by Nidia Diaz
Ocean Press, 1992; ISBN 1-875284-13-3
From leftbooks.com:
Seriously wounded and captured in combat in 1985 by CIA agent Felix Rodriguez, guerrilla Commander Nidia Diaz tells the story of her 190-day prison ordeal. Her case became a focus for an international human rights campaign.
I was Never Alone also describes the sensational circumstances of the release of Diaz in exchange for President Duarte's daughter, kidnapped by rebel forces.
More than a moving personal testimony of a political prisoner, I was Never Alone shows how an individual survives such brutality and isolation. It also helps explaining the popular struggle in El Salvador.
One of the leaders of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation front, Nidia Diaz has participated in UN-sponsored peace talks with the Salvadoran government.
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Colombia: The Genocidal Democracy
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School of the Americas Watch
http://www.soaw.org/index.html
The United States Army "School of the Americas," in Fort Benning, Georgia, teaches its students how to torture human beings.Graduates of the U.S. Army School of the Americas have been responsible for some of the worst human rights abuses in Latin America.
Among the SOA's nearly 60,000 graduates are notorious dictators Manuel Noriega and Omar Torrijos of Panama, Leopoldo Galtieri and Roberto Viola of Argentina, Juan Velasco Alvarado of Peru, Guillermo Rodriguez of Ecuador, and Hugo Banzer Suarez of Bolivia.
Lower-level SOA graduates have participated in human rights abuses that include the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero, the torture of countless people throughout Central and South America and the El Mozote Massacre of 900 human beings.
The US Army School of Assassins
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lormand/soa/
Exposes the dirty deeds of the U.S. Army School of "the Americas" (Assassins) throughout Latin America. Special sections on Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Grenada, Colombia, Panama, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
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