Salvador
Central America Civil Rights Civil Rights - El Salvador Didion; Joan - Travel - El Salvador El Salvador El Salvador - Politics and Government - 1979 Essays General History Human Rights - El Salvador Human rights International Relations Latin America Literary Collections Political Freedom & Security Political Science Terrorism Terrorism - El Salvador
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Published: Jan 2, 1983
Description:
"Terror is the given of the place." The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. The writer is Joan Didion, who delivers an anatomy of that country's particular brand of terror–its mechanisms, rationales, and intimate relation to United States foreign policy.As ash travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet president, and considers the distinctly Salvadoran grammar of the verb "to disappear," Didion gives us a book that is germane to any country in which bloodshed has become a standard tool of politics.