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Inferno: A Story of Terror and Survival in Chile (Living in Latin America) | 
 enlarge | Author: Luz Arce
Creator: Stacey Alba Skar
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 552009
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 402
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0299195546
Dewey Decimal Number: 983.065
EAN: 9780299195540
ASIN: 0299195546
Publication Date: April 15, 2004
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As a member of Salvador Allende’s Personal Guards (GAP), Luz Arce worked with leaders of the Socialist Party during the Popular Unity Government from 1971 to1973. In the months following the coup, Arce served as a militant with others from the Left who opposed the military junta led by Augusto Pinochet, which controlled the country from 1973 to1990. Along with thousands of others in Chile, Arce was detained and tortured by Chile’s military intelligence service, the DINA, in their attempt to eliminate alternative voices and ideologies in the country. Arce’s testimonial offers the harrowing story of the abuse she suffered and witnessed as a survivor of detention camps, such as the infamous Villa Grimaldi.
But when faced with threats made to her family, including her young son, and with the possibility that she could be murdered as thousands of others had been, Arce began to collaborate with the Chilean military in their repression of national resistance groups and outlawed political parties. Her testimonial thus also offers a unique perspective from within the repressive structures as she tells of her work as a DINA agent whose identifications even lead to the capture of some of her former friends and companeros.
During Chile’s return to democracy in the early 1990s, Arce experienced two fundamental changes in her life that led to the writing of her story. The first was a deep spiritual renewal through her contacts with the Catholic Church whose Vicariate of Solidarity had fought for human rights in the country during the dictatorship. The second was her decision to participate within the legal system to identify and bring to justice those members of the military who were responsible for the crimes committed from 1973 to1990. Luz Arce’s book invites readers to rethink the definition of testimonial narrative in Latin America through the unique perspective of a survivor-witness-confessor.
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Honestly betrayed March 18, 2008
Veronica Godoy (Sollentuna, Sweden)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book has brought back to me what many surviving torture victims were dealt with, when many found out they survived by selling out other countrymen/ women who disappeared. I see what they suffered in our chilean society to be uncovered and how grotesque the author's accounts were to read in her quest to relay her story. I feel she does a daring job of telling her horrific accounts of abuse and I can now understand what drove her to do just that in order to survive. I recommend this book particularly to women who wish to know how women in chilean society were tortured.
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