(Guatemala) Letter to a Forcibly Disappeared Son |
| Published: January 9, 2008, 8:56 am |
| Tags: art, civlib, if you don t like something change it, maverick spirit |
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I'm traveling in Guatemala for a few weeks, working on different projects here. One of the sources of insight I turn to often about this place and its history is the work of the very, very talented photojournalist James Rodriguez. One of the recent posts on his photoblog documents an event carried out to dignify the memory of a Guatemalan man named Oscar David Hernandez Quiroa. He was "forcibly disappeared" in 1984, during the civil war, and was the son of well-known activist Blanca Quiroa. She worked in FAMDEGUA, a group that worked (and still does) to support the surviving families of "desaparecidos," the victims of political assassinations. Here's a snip from the letter Mr. Quiroa's mom wrote to her son in 2005, two decades after his death. Oscar, there are so many things I would like to tell you which have happened over these past twenty years. Ever since you were abducted, on that February 23rd 1984, my heart has remained completely void. You know I considered you not just [ Full article ] |
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