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Harbury, who graduated from the Law School in 1978, staged a 32-day hunger strike in Guatemala City to call attention to her husband's disappearance...
...hunger strikes--those days of living on water and an electrolyte solution, those sleepless nights on a foam pad in front of the National Palace in Guatemala City and outside the White House--did win Jennifer Harbury some answers. Last week she learned of an intelligence report linking the death of her husband, Efrain Bamaca Velasquez, a comandante in the Guatemalan guerrilla forces, to a Guatemalan army colonel who had once been a paid informant for the CIA. She said, "The truth shall make you free...
...Embassy allowed me to spend 32 days in literal starvation in Guatemala City last fall," she said in a statement obtained by The Crimson. "As I grew weaker and weaker, as I was placed number one on a published death list, they simply watched...
...Embassy in Guatemala declined to comment...
Harbury said she will return to Guatemala tosearch for her husband's remains. "I must nowlearn where my husband is buried," she said. "Icannot leave him tossed like so much trash into anunmarked grave. His bones belong...