Memory Is a Weapon: Andean Massacres

The book is divided into four parts: The Peoples, The Voices, The Children, The Men, each with their respective and opening "war dispatches," as a way of understanding and contemplating ourselves, from our roots, in the terrible mirror of the appalling circumstances we lived through. It is also noted that only the last section contains personal names, and for a single reason: because there are also men and women who represent, emblematically or paradigmatically, in the history of a people, the frontal struggle against impunity in our dreams. For which reason it was necessary to personalize them, in their anger and suffering. And, in many of them, in their undeniable historical leadership. An example and consequence of some and others that we must never forget, but rather understand and draw inspiration from. It is worth noting that we have respected, as far as possible, their idiomatic expressions, their turns of phrase, and their verbal and linguistic constructions — while also crafting, of course, within the possible limits, a certain poetry from their voices and syntax.