By Michael J. Lazzara (eds.)
A well timed research of dictatorship, political upheaval, and human rights in Latin the US, with a primary hand account from Luz Arce, a debatable determine in Chile's heritage and culture.
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They laid me down on the “grill” [la parrilla] and turned on the electricity. NAMES, DATES, PLACES 21 Then, they would ask questions and take the gag out of your mouth so you could answer them. This was repeated several times, though I couldn’t say for how long. Then they took me downstairs, and I think that was when it was Toño’s turn. I heard intense screaming. They always held the interrogations on the second floor, where there was a big bathroom with green tiles. There were other torture devices in other rooms on the second floor.
This juxtaposition of discursive registers, I think, speaks volumes about how a traumatized subject frames and reframes her experience in different times and spaces and to different ends; moreover, it forms the basis for this book’s poetics. Additionally, I have sprinkled the book with epigraphs by Arce and others (without necessarily heeding the factual basis of their words) to give a more complete vision of the verbal webs—opinions, critiques, accusations, characterizations— that have been spun around the traitor figure.
I think there had been someone with Leo in his house when I called, lying in wait and using Leo as bait to arrest more people. Leo’s last name was Gómez. He was short, a bit overweight, dark brown hair, with light-colored eyes; he was a history teacher. I remember that when I was underground, Leo had asked me if I was afraid; I said I was, and he told me that he wasn’t, because he had a number of friends in the Investigative Police. Later, when I was detained at the Military Hospital [Hospital Militar, or HOSMIL], I found out that Gustavo Ruz had been arrested as well.