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Gibler, John, author.
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Tzompaxtle Tecpile, Andrés -- Interviews.
Ejército Popular Revolucionario (Mexico)
Disappeared persons -- Mexico -- Interviews.
Victims of state-sponsored terrorism -- Mexico -- Interviews.
Guerrero (Mexico : State) -- Underground movements.
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Torn from the world ...
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Torn from the world : a guerrilla's escape from a secret prison in Mexico / John Gibler.
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Gibler, John, author.
San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books, [2018]
Subjects
Tzompaxtle Tecpile, Andrés -- Interviews.
Ejército Popular Revolucionario (Mexico)
Disappeared persons -- Mexico -- Interviews.
Victims of state-sponsored terrorism -- Mexico -- Interviews.
Guerrero (Mexico : State) -- Underground movements.
ISBN:
9780872867529 (paperback) :
0872867528 (paperback)
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Open media book.
Description:
260 pages ; 18 cm.
Contents:
The journalists -- The news reports -- They tear you from the world -- The silences -- The interview -- A piece of being -- Writing and violence -- The social worker and the lawyer -- An incredible escape -- The brothers -- Tzompaxtle and Nube -- The disappeared.
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"Andrés Tzompaxtle Tecpile was torn from the world. Abducted off the street, blindfolded and beaten, he was brought to a Mexican military facility and "disappeared." Tzompaxtle, a young indigenous man and member of an insurgent guerrilla movement, was subjected to months of interrogation and torture as the military tried to extract information from him. In an effort to buy time to protect his family and comrades, and to keep himself alive, he lead his captors on fruitless journeys to abandoned safe-houses and false rendezvous locations for four months. Finally, faced with imminent execution, he decided to make what he thought was a suicidal attempt at escape; when he miraculously survived, he was able to return underground. Gleaned from years of clandestine interviews, Tzompaxtle's story offers a rare glimpse into chronic injustice, underground resistance movements, and the practice of forced disappearance and torture in contemporary Mexico" --
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Hawaii State Library
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972.73 Gi
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