20th Aniversary
UnpublishedSeptember
1986
Volume:
20
Number:
5
Article
Beverly Keene
Despite all that has happened, I have neither lost my capacity for astonishment, nor the sense of obligation to join the liberation efforts. ' 'Adolfo Pkrez Esquivel is among those Argentines who have shone a light in the darkness," said the Nobel com- mittee in awarding him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1980.
Carol Wise
I neither sought nor expected to hold the position I now hold in Peruvian politics. It was just one of those caprices of history.
Marc Edelman
There are two feelings which I have never been able to write down, those I felt when leaving the palace and those I felt on the day of victory. Seven years after the triumph of the Sandinista Revolu- tion, 31-year-old Dora Man2 Tellez still exudes the toughness and determination of a committed guerrilla leader.
the NACLA staff
On the occasion of NACLA's 20th anniversary, Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano reflected: "I think NACLA's work has helped to
build and strengthen the necessary bonds among the Latin American countries and the bonds between these countries and the United States, not as an imperial power, but as a potential home for everyone. All of this also has to do with the need to recuperate the words that had been prohibited because this means recuperating reality. NACLA's task is to shed light on reality. Anything that helps us to recognize the reality which has been denied us or hidden behind a mask is useful and I think NACLA's work has been and will continue to be useful in combating the structure that has distanced and silenced us."
Carlos Nuñez
I couldn't have lived my life any differently. I would have "Perhaps the worst thing the Tupamaros did was to have been defeated.
Tim Frasca
I think I have struggled in people's real interests. So I am content, even if I don't live to see the final victory.
Steven Volk
The only important thing about history, I think, sir, is that it S got to the point where it's probably about to end. Price to Mr.
"ONE GREAT ERROR WE COMMITTED was to be young," Tupamaro founder Eleuterio FernAndez Huidobro told us, "not allowing ourselves more time to reflect, to think, as events un- folded. Events occurred one after another at such a rapid, accelerated and dizzying pace that we got caught up in action, in political work, which did not permit us a single moment for reflection.
Martha Dogget
I don't think any pioneer feels bitter. You may be sad because a lot of people got very hurt by what happened.
Joan Dassin
Seldom in Brazil has there been so great a possibility that the people will actually influence the course of history. One of 13 children, Paulo Evaristo Ams was born on September 14, 1921 in the small town of Forquilhinha, Santa Catarina.