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Torn from the World: A Guerrilla's Escape from a Secret Prison in Mexico (City Lights Open Media)

John Gibler

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Description:Andres Tzompaxtle Tecpile was torn from the world. Abducted off the street, blindfolded and beaten, he was brought to a Mexican military facility and "disappeared."Tzompaxtle, a young indigenous man and member of an insurgent guerrilla movement, was subjected to months of interrogation and torture as the military tried to extract information from him. In an effort to buy time to protect his family and comrades, and to keep himself alive, he lead his captors on fruitless journeys to abandoned safe-houses and false rendezvous locations for four months. Finally, faced with imminent execution, he decided to make what he thought was a suicidal attempt at escape; when he miraculously survived, he was able to return underground.Gleaned from years of clandestine interviews, Tzompaxtle's story offers a rare glimpse into chronic injustice, underground resistance movements, and the practice of forced disappearance and torture in contemporary Mexico.Praise for Torn from the World"Once in a long while a brilliant writer happens on a story he was born to tell--a story that in its stark and unremitting horror gives us a glimpse of the world as it is, unvarnished and unredeemed. John Gibler is such a writer and Torn From the World is such a story. A wrenching, astonishing tale, brilliantly told."--Mark Danner, author of The Massacre at El Mozote"Torn from the World is the product of a thorough investigation and it is written with rage and humility at the same time. This is the work of one of the most important journalists of our time."--Yuri Herrera, author of Signs Preceding the End of the World"John Gibler's powerful recounting of the forced disappearance of Andres Tzompaxtle Tecpile unearths the brutal machinery of state-sanctioned torture and terrorism in Mexico today. It is also a deeply lyrical story of survival against the odds, enabled by communities of resistance and solidarity. This book must provoke an outcry. We cannot know this story and see the world in the same way."--Sujatha Fernandes, author of Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling"Not since Rodolfo Walsh's classic Operation Massacrehave I read a work of political and literary journalism as inventive and urgent as John Gibler's Torn from the World With courage, empathy, and clear-sightedness, Gibler tackles questions most journalists won't go near. How to capture in language and via memory practices--torture and disappearance--designed to destroy meaning and erase the past? How to write without complicity or exploitation? How to listen, and to fight? How to take sides with truth? Torn from the World is at once gripping and profound. It is, to borrow Gibler's phrase, an 'insurgent embrace, ' hopeful and defiant, a work of outrage and of love."--Ben Ehrenreich, author of The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine"The North American journalist John Gibler not only presents here the guerrilla combatant's story, but also contextualized it within the broader, very troubled history of class relations in Guerrero and the contemporary proliferation of human rights abuses in Mexico, from Ayotzinapa to Ciudad."--Jesse Lerner, author of The Shock of Modernity"In these times when truth is relativized for the sake of political expediency, Gibler's is a sobering account that provides readers with the materials from which he elaborates his story of Tzompaxtle. This book offers an implicit response to the denigration of journalism, hence of truth-telling."--Jose Rabasa, author of Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier"John Gibler has produced a giant of a book."--Joseph Nevins, author of Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global ApartheidWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Torn from the World: A Guerrilla's Escape from a Secret Prison in Mexico (City Lights Open Media). To get started finding Torn from the World: A Guerrilla's Escape from a Secret Prison in Mexico (City Lights Open Media), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Andres Tzompaxtle Tecpile was torn from the world. Abducted off the street, blindfolded and beaten, he was brought to a Mexican military facility and "disappeared."Tzompaxtle, a young indigenous man and member of an insurgent guerrilla movement, was subjected to months of interrogation and torture as the military tried to extract information from him. In an effort to buy time to protect his family and comrades, and to keep himself alive, he lead his captors on fruitless journeys to abandoned safe-houses and false rendezvous locations for four months. Finally, faced with imminent execution, he decided to make what he thought was a suicidal attempt at escape; when he miraculously survived, he was able to return underground.Gleaned from years of clandestine interviews, Tzompaxtle's story offers a rare glimpse into chronic injustice, underground resistance movements, and the practice of forced disappearance and torture in contemporary Mexico.Praise for Torn from the World"Once in a long while a brilliant writer happens on a story he was born to tell--a story that in its stark and unremitting horror gives us a glimpse of the world as it is, unvarnished and unredeemed. John Gibler is such a writer and Torn From the World is such a story. A wrenching, astonishing tale, brilliantly told."--Mark Danner, author of The Massacre at El Mozote"Torn from the World is the product of a thorough investigation and it is written with rage and humility at the same time. This is the work of one of the most important journalists of our time."--Yuri Herrera, author of Signs Preceding the End of the World"John Gibler's powerful recounting of the forced disappearance of Andres Tzompaxtle Tecpile unearths the brutal machinery of state-sanctioned torture and terrorism in Mexico today. It is also a deeply lyrical story of survival against the odds, enabled by communities of resistance and solidarity. This book must provoke an outcry. We cannot know this story and see the world in the same way."--Sujatha Fernandes, author of Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling"Not since Rodolfo Walsh's classic Operation Massacrehave I read a work of political and literary journalism as inventive and urgent as John Gibler's Torn from the World With courage, empathy, and clear-sightedness, Gibler tackles questions most journalists won't go near. How to capture in language and via memory practices--torture and disappearance--designed to destroy meaning and erase the past? How to write without complicity or exploitation? How to listen, and to fight? How to take sides with truth? Torn from the World is at once gripping and profound. It is, to borrow Gibler's phrase, an 'insurgent embrace, ' hopeful and defiant, a work of outrage and of love."--Ben Ehrenreich, author of The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine"The North American journalist John Gibler not only presents here the guerrilla combatant's story, but also contextualized it within the broader, very troubled history of class relations in Guerrero and the contemporary proliferation of human rights abuses in Mexico, from Ayotzinapa to Ciudad."--Jesse Lerner, author of The Shock of Modernity"In these times when truth is relativized for the sake of political expediency, Gibler's is a sobering account that provides readers with the materials from which he elaborates his story of Tzompaxtle. This book offers an implicit response to the denigration of journalism, hence of truth-telling."--Jose Rabasa, author of Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier"John Gibler has produced a giant of a book."--Joseph Nevins, author of Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global ApartheidWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Torn from the World: A Guerrilla's Escape from a Secret Prison in Mexico (City Lights Open Media). To get started finding Torn from the World: A Guerrilla's Escape from a Secret Prison in Mexico (City Lights Open Media), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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