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Polsfut, the third Trustman winner, said he plans to visit Ecuador, Chile, Costa Rica and Spain, to "learn more about the in exces between Americans and Hispanics react to death...
...Human Rights Report is a flawed and inconsistent document. In the recently released report, entitled Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1982, the Administration conveniently misrepresents or disregards blatant human rights violations in those countries deemed "friendly" to the United States, such as Guatemala. Argentina, El Salvador, Chile, the Phillipines, and South Korea, while characteristically focusing on the human rights abuses committed in the U.S.S.R. and Soviet bloc countries...
...Chile, where Augusto Pinochet had headed a military junta with strong American support for the last 10 years, Amnesty International is investigating the "disappearances" of 250 prisoners of conscience. All political parties and activities are banned in Chile, and the government routinely makes arrests, banishes dissidents to remote areas of the country, holds people incommunicado for weeks, and worse. Justice is meager. One man, Guillermo Rodriguez Morales, was accused in 1981 of killing a government agent and sentenced to life imprisonment after a 45 minute trial...
Latin America has seldom been short of renowned poets, notably Peru's César Vallejo and Chile's Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral, both of whom won Nobel Prizes. But in the 1960s, North America began to encounter the names of novelists and essayists who would be associated with El Boom. The term suggested the sudden discovery of Latin American talent rather than its slow growth. Says Gregory Rabassa, the distinguished translator of many Hispanic writers: "El Boom is not quite right. I would prefer something a little stuffier, like fomento." The word means a gradual development...
Some of this new literary attention can also be traced to the current troubles in Central America and the lingering concern for people who have vanished in Chile and Argentina. Luisa Valenzuela, an Argentine now living in New York City, caught the mood in Strange Things Happen Here (1979). From a droll story titled The Best Shod: "An invasion of beggars, but there's one consolation; no one lacks shoes, there are more than enough shoes to go around. Sometimes, it's true, a shoe has to be taken off some severed leg found in the underbrush...