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| Title | : | Searching for Everardo: A Story of Love, War, and the CIA in Guatemala |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.27 (872 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0446673625 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 335 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-20 |
| Language | : | English |
to discover his fate, gaining insights into the covert dealings of the CIA in Guatemala. . Harbury. Though the civil war in Guatemala ended in December of 1996, the conflict still rages for human rights activist Jennifer K. After unwavering pressure and protests, legal action, and three hunger strikes, Harbury finally forced the two governments to release the information they held on her husband and reveal the painful truth. Her contention is that members of the CIA knew what happened to her husband, but withheld the information in an attempt to cover up the actions of its agents. This powerful memoir details her struggle in the most personal terms while offering a detailed--if one-sided--examination of the insidious political forces at work in the conflict. The Guatemalan government did a similar dance around the facts in order to hide the brutality of its own military forces. While desperately clinging to the hope that he was st
Five Stars Dr. B. Rasnow excellently written story of the Guatemalan civil war.. Eloquent and heartbreaking. Searching for Everardo is an emotionally moving book that tells the story of not just one man - but an entire race of people during a very violent period for their country. The Kirkus Review condemns the author for not acknowledging that her husband was a commander of the guerilla forces and therefore,they imply, somehow deserving of his capture, torture and death. Harbury clearly recognizes her husband's position in the war throughout the book and the Kirkus Review makes one see how necessary his struggle, the struggle of class and race, has been throughout history. We still have a long way to go in e. "Searching for Everardo is not the cold, analytical treatise" according to A Customer. The "Kirkus" review above criticizes Harbury for being unwilling to recognize that her husband Everardo was a combattant, indeed a commander, in a war and therefore subject to the consequences of war. Firstly, the accusation is false; Harbury was well aware that her husband was fighting a war, and she never demanded that the Guatemalan government release him. Her constant demand was that the Guatemalan authorities acknowledge his capture, treat him humanely and try him in a public and fair manner. One almost has to wonder if the "Kirkus" reviewer read the book or only someone else's synopsis! Secondly,
Soon after, he vanished in combat. This is the story of Harbury's search for Everardo, one that grew into an impassioned crusade to expose those responsible for the human rights abuses suffered upon the victims of Guatemala -- one woman's heroic stand against the Guatemalan oligarchy, the U.S. Harvard-educated attorney Jennifer Harbury went to Guatemala to help refugees, and found herself drawn into a political drama that would test her beliefs, courage, and moral strength. She fell in love and married Efrain Bamaca Velasquez, better known as Commander Everardo, a Mayan Indian resistance leader. State Department, and the CIA.A headline-making story of love, war, and courage, this is the personal account of an American woman and her unrelenting fight to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of her husband, a Guatemalan guerrilla leader.
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