Para romper el silencio de Claribel Alegría y Darwin J. Flakoll: la historia que se repite a cuatro décadas de su publicación

Authors

  • Antonio Velásquez Fairleigh Dickinson University

Keywords:

Testimonio; Resistencia; Lucha popular; Dictaduras; Cárceles; Derechos humanos

Abstract

2024 marks the centenary of the birth of Salvadoran poet and writer Claribel Alegría, who died in 2018. Also, 2024 marks 40 years since she published, in collaboration with her husband Darwin J. Flakoll, one of the most emblematic testimonies about prison reality and atrocities by the government in El Salvador, Para romper el silencio: resistencia y lucha en las cárceles salvadoreñas (1984). This article is an approach to that historical period marked by the violence unleashed by abuses of dictatorial power and by little respect for human rights. When rescuing these voices from the text, we cannot ignore that, although with different nuances, history seems to be repeating itself in El Salvador. With an authoritarian president who undermines the fragile democracy by violating the country's Constitution to perpetuate himself in power, persecuting, and harassing all those who are not aligned with his "new ideas" of governing, an avalanche of warnings is inevitably set in motion for what could come to a country already bathed in blood multiple times.

Published

2024-10-24

How to Cite

Velásquez, A. (2024). Para romper el silencio de Claribel Alegría y Darwin J. Flakoll: la historia que se repite a cuatro décadas de su publicación. A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 22(1), 18–41. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/2425

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