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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810390603321

Autore

Ulloa Bornemann Alberto <1941->

Titolo

Surviving Mexico's dirty war : a political prisoner's memoir / / Alberto Ulloa Bornemann ; edited and translated by Arthur Schmidt and Aurora Camacho de Schmidt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-281-09406-4

9786611094065

1-59213-424-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Voices of Latin American life

Altri autori (Persone)

SchmidtArthur <1943->

SchmidtAurora Camacho de

Disciplina

365/.45092

B

Soggetti

Political prisoners - Mexico

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-199) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; ONE  A Sad and Cruel Underground; TWO  The Long March; Photo gallery; THREE  In the Kingdom of Necessity; FOUR  The Roads of Freedom; BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE  Alberto Ulloa Bornemann; Notes; Glossary of Names and Terms; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first major, book-length memoir of a political prisoner from Mexico's ""dirty war"" of the 1970's. Written with the urgency of a first-person narrative, it is a unique work, providing an inside story of guerrilla activities and a gripping tale of imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Mexican government.  Alberto Ulloa Bornemann was a young idealist when he dedicated himself to clandestine resistance and to assisting Lucio Cabañas, the guerrilla leader of the ""Party of the Poor."" Here the author exposes readers to the day-to-day activities of revolutionary activists see