Word: flaquer
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That is the case that publications director of the Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies June C. Erlick makes in her new book Disappeared: A Journalist Silenced. The book, from which Erlick read at the Harvard Coop last week, tells of Irma Flaquer, a Guatemalan who disappeared...
...Flaquer was not the victim of unintended consequences. A firm Guatemalan patriot, she fought unfairness in her own country for over 20 years in an effort to bring justice and equality to the tiny Central American country...
...When Flaquer was sequestered in 1980, presumably by Guatemalan governmental forces, she became one of thousands of people in that country to be tortured and/or killed for their political beliefs...