In 1980 El Salvador was plunged into a bloody civil war, and Luis
Campos, a peasant farmer, found himself drawn into a deadly
political maelstrom of guerrilla fighting for twelve years. In this
collection of fascinating and revealing oral histories, Gorkin and
Pineda portray the personal and social lives of Luis and his
family, who for the past eighteen years have been working to
rebuild their lives in their new community beneath the Guazapa
volcano.
Luis, his mother, his wife, his in-laws, his children, and some
neighbors recall in a simple and often eloquent manner their
experiences of everyday life before, during, and after the civil
war. Nina Bonafacia, Luis's mother, tells of the days before the
war when two of her daughters were murdered and she fled with her
family to a refugee camp. Julia, Luis's wife, recounts her life as
a guerrillera during which, incidentally, she gave birth to the
first two of her eight children. Joaquin, a neighbor and
comrade-in-arms, discusses how he and others took control of the
land of Comunidad Guazapa and began rebuilding in those turbulent
days and months right after the war. Margarita and Francisco, the
two oldest children, with candor and insight discuss the trajectory
of their lives and that of the postwar generation. And at the
center of all these stories stands Luis, the guerrillero, farmer,
neighbor, husband, father--and raconteur par excellence.
In sum, the multiple voices in "From Beneath the Volcano" combine
to form a rich tapestry displaying a story of war, family, and
community and provide a never-before-seen view of both the past and
present El Salvador.
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