5/15/2023 0 Comments Terror by night book![]() She focuses on the 2005 feminicide of Claudina Isabel and her father's efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice, weaving a story rooted in Guatemalan history, but with universal resonance. "In T extures of Terror, Sanford illuminates the way violence and impunity continue to destroy lives, especially women's lives, in postwar Guatemala. The others explore the layers of systemic horror that remind us that to be a woman in twenty-first-century Guatemala is to live in danger, in the shadow of violence, impunity, and historical oppression."-Carolina Escobar Sarti, National Director, La Alianza Guatemala Terror by Night tells how Terry survived a horrific home invasion that left his wife and two sons dead, only to learn later that his 16-year-old daughter helped plan the murders. One chronicles the murder of a young female law student. "This book is simultaneously one book and many. Harrowing but deeply insightful, Textures of Terror shows how ordinary people react and resist as a society decomposes."-Stephen Kinzer, Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, and world affairs columnist for the Boston Globe "How can anyone convey Guatemala's descent into ultra-violence following a US-backed coup decades ago? Sanford does it beautifully by telling a single poignant story and placing it against the country's dazzling political and cultural background. Above all, she tells the love story of a father's ceaseless quest for justice for the murder of his beloved daughter."-Kerry Kennedy, President of Robert F. "In Textures of Terror, Victoria Sanford brilliantly unravels complex and widespread gender-based violence in Guatemala and how the very institutions created to combat it perpetuate violence and impunity. Presenting the stories of other women who have suffered at the hands of strangers, intimate partners, and the security forces, this work reveals the deeply gendered nature of power and violence in Guatemala. Sanford offers an up-close appraisal of the inner workings of the Guatemalan criminal justice system and how it maintains inequality, patriarchy, and impunity. Through this father's determined struggle and other stories of justice denied, Textures of Terror offers a deeper understanding of US policies in Latin America and their ripple effect on migration. Accompanying Jorge Velásquez in a years-long search for answers after the brutal murder of his daughter Claudina Isabel, Victoria Sanford explores what it means to seek justice in "postconflict" countries where violence never ended. Terror by Night is the emotionally gripping story of a daughter’s ultimate betrayal, a father’s unfathomable forgiveness, and a miraculous discovery that would restore one man’s faith, spare two young lives, and restore peace to a small Texas town. Part memoir and part forensic investigation, Textures of Terror is a gripping first-person story of women, violence, and migration out of Guatemala-and how the United States is implicated. Investigating the unsolved murder of a female law student and the pervasive violence against Guatemalan women that drives migration.
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