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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...
...Irma Flaquer that Erlick creates is a human being who fights her own battles within the greater context of the fight for Guatemalan freedom...
...inspectors keep closer tabs on whether fields have toilets and hand-washing facilities. Last November three people died and 600 became ill with hepatitis A from unsanitary Mexican scallions at a Pennsylvania restaurant. Likewise, hundreds have fallen ill over the past decade after eating Mexican cantaloupes and strawberries and Guatemalan raspberries. "Americans prefer American produce because they don't want to get sick," says Chuck Obern, a Florida vegetable farmer. COOL, he says, allows him to "promote my wares with information rather than resort to tariffs...