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Surviving Mexico's Dirty War: A Political Prisoner's Memoir. By Alberto Ulloa Bornemann. Edited and translated by Arthur Schmidt and Aurora Camacho de Schmidt. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007. Pp 217. Illustrations. Map. Notes. Glossary. Index. $74.50 cloth; $26.95 paper.
This translation of the Spanish-language Sendenero en tenieblas (2004) is a welcome addition to the near-empty shelf of contemporary studies of Mexico's dirty war, and on modern Guerrero more specifically. Only recently has the academic community begun to identify the massive repression associated with the dirty wars of the Southern Cone with events in Mexico in the 1970s (a neglect explicitly acknowledged by this English-language title).
The oppositional movements in the southwestern state of Guerrero have elicited few studies, most available only in Spanish and many, only through smaller outlets or private collections in Guerrero. These works, however, often focus on the guerrilla movements to the neglect of the public manifestations of discontent; the literature has tended to mythologize the leadership of teachers-tumed-guerrilleros Lucio Cabañas and Genaro Vázquez Rojas. While a broader examination of the popular movements-culminating in public...