Hear My Testimony: Maria Teresa Tula Human Rights Activist of El Salvador
Following in the footsteps of Rigoberto Menchu, Maria Teresa Tula describes her childhood, marriage, and growing family as well as her political consciousness, activism, imprisonment and torture. The human side of the civil war in El Salvador and decades of repression come to the fore in this woman's tale of extraordinary courage and ordinary labor.
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Following in the footsteps of Rigoberta Menchu, Maria Teresa Tula describes her childhood, marriage, and growing family, as well as her awakening political consciousness, activism, imprisonment, and torture. The human side of the civil war in El Salvador and decades of repression come to the fore in this woman's tale of extraordinary courage and ordinary labor. Library Journal While military solutions to social problems take an awful toll in human suffering, the military's gain in wealth and power is apt to make it reluctant to support peace unless funds are cut off. Tiny, overpopulated El Salvador has recently emerged from a savage 13-year civil war that devastated the country. The war, in reality an agrarian movement to rectify the ownership of over half the land by two percent of the people, gave rise to such human rights abuses that thousands were massacred or fled abroad. Protests by women in turn made them aware of their own status as a disadvantaged group. The author herself was transformed from a peasant to an international human rights activist. Those who know Latin America will not be surprised at her story; a similar story is Nidia Diaz's I Was Never Alone: A Prison Diary from El Salvador (Ocean, 1992). For large collections.-Louise Leonard, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, Wondervu, Col.
AcknowledgementsCh. 1Introduction1Ch. 2From Childhood to Motherhood9Ch. 3Working-Class Housewife21Ch. 4First Political Experience33Ch. 5CO-MADRES Activist53Ch. 6Personal and Political Struggles67Ch. 7Increased Repression and the Death of Silvia Olan and Monsenor Romero79Ch. 8Birth and Death: Unexpected Pregnancy and the Assassination of Rafael89Ch. 9Another Bombing and more Disappearances103Ch. 10Living and Working Abroad: Mexico and Europe115Ch. 11Torture and Detention131Ch. 12The Women's Prison159Ch. 13Living in the United States169Ch. 14The Peace Accords181Ch. 15It's a Hard Life: Women in El Salvador's Economic History187Ch. 16Maria's Companeras: Women's Grassroots Organizing in El Salvador, 1970-1991201Ch. 17The Politics and Practice of Testimonial Literature223Epilogue235Glossary237
\ Library JournalWhile military solutions to social problems take an awful toll in human suffering, the military's gain in wealth and power is apt to make it reluctant to support peace unless funds are cut off. Tiny, overpopulated El Salvador has recently emerged from a savage 13-year civil war that devastated the country. The war, in reality an agrarian movement to rectify the ownership of over half the land by two percent of the people, gave rise to such human rights abuses that thousands were massacred or fled abroad. Protests by women in turn made them aware of their own status as a disadvantaged group. The author herself was transformed from a peasant to an international human rights activist. Those who know Latin America will not be surprised at her story; a similar story is Nidia Diaz's I Was Never Alone: A Prison Diary from El Salvador (Ocean, 1992). For large collections.-Louise Leonard, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, Wondervu, Col.\ \
