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...declared a seven day hunger strike and demanded a fair trial according to the Geneva Convention," she said. "Guatemalans came out in droves to support me with flowers and water...
...October 1994 she staged a second 32-day hunger strike that captured international media attention...
...thought the peace accord would lead to Everardo's death at Christmas when the peace treaty went into effect," Harbury said. "I went on a hunger strike to the death and was repeatedly harassed by the Guatemalan government trying to get me to pass out so they could get me into a hospital...
...32nd day of her hunger strike, the American Embassy in Guatemala issued a demarche in which the U.S. government acknowledged Everardo was captured alive, Harbury said...
Harbury then returned to Washington to push for sanctions against the Guatemalan government, but to no avail. During another hunger strike in Washington, D.C. in 1995, Rep. Robert G. Torricelli (D-N.J.) told Harbury that a Guatemalan General on the CIA's payroll ordered Everardo's execution...