Luciérnagas En El Mozote

by Rufina Amaya

Libro nuevo. Enviado desde El Salvador por correo nacional,

152 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2012

Reviews

[Jose · Rating 5 out of 5]

For a long time I had this on my to-read list and I wanted to get it in paperback, I was finally able to get a copy directly from the MUPI and I was not disappointed. It is painful to read, it is sad, it is the story of what happens when empathy is completely lost and pure hate takes over a mass of people to the point where the "others" are just bones to break and blood to spill for fun. The story of power gone unchecked and boosted with weapons driving men crazy to the point of cruelty. It is the all too familiar story of the United States meddling in foreign affairs and financing the deaths of thousands of innocents while washing their hands clean in public, the "liberty" they talk about so much applied only to those who the people in power like best, anyone else? fuck them, kill them, rape their daughters, murder their babies, burn their homes, and then bury the story, and in a few years when the survivors of the horrors paid for by uncle Sam look to run and make a better life for themselves, blame them for everything that's wrong.

Hijos de puta

[Tati Candray · Rating 4 out of 5]

"De la memoria nace la esperanza"...Segunda vez leyendo este libro, con mayor conocimiento de la realidad nacional y de la necesidad de los jóvenes, no solo de El Salvador, sino también de toda Latinoamérica, de mantener presente y analizar su memoria histórica. El epílogo lo he leído repetidas veces; las escenas las he imaginado y me han herido, porque quizá una masacre tan grande no volvió a pasar, pero nuestra población salvadoreña tuvo que seguir viviendo la guerra de las pandillas, que trajo igual dolor y destrucción.
Es triste que nuestra gente desconozca la historia, porque un pueblo que no conoce su historia está destinado a repetirla.