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A memoir of heroism and sacrifice in the face of the political brutality of El Salvador in the 1980s.
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State-sponsored terrorism--El Salvador, Human rights workers--El Salvador, El Salvador--Politics and government--1979-1992.
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1998
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HV6322.3.S2H87 1998eb
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972.8405/3/092
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State-sponsored terrorism--El Salvador, Human rights workers--El Salvador, El Salvador--Politics and government--1979-1992.
WHEN THE DOGS ATE CANDLES
A Time in El Salvador
by Bill Hutchinson
University Press of Colorado
Copyright 1998 by Bill Hutchinson International Standard Book Number 0-87081-475-3
Published by the University Press of Colorado P.O. Box 849 Niwot, Colorado 80544
All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America.
The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College of Colorado.
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48-1984
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hutchinson, Bill, 1947 When dogs ate candles: a time in El Salvador / by Bill Hutchinson. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-87081-475-3 (hardcover: alk. paper) 1. State-sponsored terrorismEl Salvador. 2. Human rights work ersEl Salvador. 3. El SalvadorPolitics and government1979 1992. I. Title. HV6322.3.S2H87 1998 972.8405'3'092dc21
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For Lori You came with me once to El Salvador but were there with me every time.
Sometimes in the barrio where we lived, we would wake up in the morning and find a body in the street... someone we did not know. All day it would lie there. No one could afford to buy candles, so someone would put a tin can by the body, and people would put in a few cents until there was enough to buy candles. Then we would put the candles around the body and light them to honor the person. When the candles went out, the dogs would eat the wax.
Carlos Cartagena A Salvadoran Refugee
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CONTENTS
Foreword
xi
Acknowledgments
xxi
Introduction
1
1.
Jess
7
2.
Kate
26
3.
Herbert
43
4.
The Commission
65
5.
The Volunteers
81
6.
Barbara
97
7.
Csar
127
8.
Mirtala
150
9.
Brian
176
10.
Mirna and the Valley People
186
Conclusion
201
Poems
211
Afterword
217
Suggested Reading
219
Index
223
Page xi
FOREWORD
For a dozen years beginning in about 1980, El Salvador gripped the soul of tens of thousands of North American gringos. Most had been similarly tormented by the war in Vietnam during an earlier decade, from 1965 to 1975. The terrible paradox of such beautiful and impoverished people in foreign lands suffering so much violence, with our own powerful government participating as accomplice to that suffering, caused enormous anguish.
Already the pain of El Salvador has dulled. For most, the very memory is threatened. More recent violencein Iraq, Liberia, Somalia, Chiapas, Haiti, Bosnia, Rwanda, New York City, Waco, Oklahoma City, a mosque in Hebron, a marketplace in Jerusalemhas numbed our sensitivity, diffused our focus, and too often reinforced a false sense of superiority and self-righteousness.
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