History of violence oscar martinez
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A History of Violence:Living and Dying in Central America
by Óscar Martínez
Foreword by Jon Lee Anderson
Translated by Daniela Maria Ugaz and John Washington
This is a book about one of the deadliest places in the world
El Salvador and Honduras have had the highest homicide rates in the world over the past ten years, with Guatemala close behind. Every day more than 1,000 people—men, women, and children—flee these three countries for North America. Óscar Martínez, author of The Beast, named one of the best books of the year by the Economist, Mother Jones, and the Financial Times, fleshes out these stark figures with true stories, producing a jarringly beautiful and immersive account of life in deadly locations.
Martínez travels to Nicaraguan fishing towns, southern Mexican brothels where Central American women are trafficked, isolated Guatemalan jungle villages, and crime-ridden Salvadoran slums. With his precise and empathetic reporting, he explores the underbelly of these troubled places. He goes undercover to drink with narcos, accompanies police patrols, rides in trafficking boats and hides out with a gang informer. The result is an unforgettable portrait of a region of fear and a subtle analysis of the North American roots and reach of the crisis
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“A history of Violence: Living and dying in Central America” – book by Oscar Martinez
By Ambassador R Viswanathan
The author of the book, Oscar Martinez, is a journalist from El Salvador. He runs Sala Negra, a crime investigations unit for El Faro, the investigative Central American online magazine based in El Salvador.
He has given a graphic and moving account of the violence in Central America based on his direct interaction with criminal gangs, assassins, security forces, prison authorities, judges, prosecutors, police detectives, informants, government functionaries, political leaders, priests and the victims. He has taken enormous personal risk in visiting the areas controlled by gangs in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico. He himself has faced several death threats.
Martinez traces the roots of the violence to the civil wars in the eighties and the role of the US. He says, “The violent gangs weren’t born in Guatemala or Honduras or El Salvador. They came from the United States, Southern California, to be precise. They began with migrants fleeing a US-sponsored civil war in Central America. The US supported brutal dictatorships, trained security forces and armed right-wing militias and death squads. This had caused hundreds of thousands of Centra
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