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“In the 1970’s El Salvador’s haves were ignoring the peasant poverty. A century earlier they had caused it, primarily as the result of their lust for profits from the nineteenth-century equivalent of oil: coffee. In order to maximize their earnings, they needed land, lots of it. So they took it—from the country’s Indians. Then they forced the Indians to work for them.”
― Weakness and Deceit: America and El Salvador's Dirty War
― Weakness and Deceit: America and El Salvador's Dirty War
“This is evidence of an Army trained only to fight civilians,” Safire caustically observed about the Argentine Army after its defeat by the British in the Falklands in 1982. The same was true about the Salvadoran Army. It was brutally competent at the repression of unarmed civilians, but it couldn’t fight a war, even with all the hardware and training that the Americans gave them.”
― Weakness and Deceit: America and El Salvador's Dirty War
― Weakness and Deceit: America and El Salvador's Dirty War
“To survive, peasants coax corn, beans, and vegetables from the depleted soils of their plots, frequently situated on seemingly vertical hillsides. They don’t own the land; they only work it as sharecroppers or renters. More than 90 percent of these parcels are smaller than twelve acres, but twenty-two acres are necessary to provide subsistence for a family of six, the average size of a Salvadoran family. But those with even tiny plots are fortunate; nearly half of all Salvadoran peasants have no access to any land.”
― Weakness and Deceit: America and El Salvador's Dirty War
― Weakness and Deceit: America and El Salvador's Dirty War
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Which book should be our legal Group Read for July 2014?
The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
Stephen L. Carter
Stephen L. Carter’s novel takes as its starting point an alternate history: President Abraham Lincoln survives the assassination attempt at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865. Two years later he is charged with overstepping his constitutional authority, both during and after the Civil War, and faces an impeachment trial.
The Trial
Franz Kafka
The terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information. A nightmare vision of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the mad agendas of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes.
Anatomy of Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong
Raymond Bonner
In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His only connection to the victim was having cleaned her gutters and windows, but barely ninety days after the victim’s body was found, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death.
The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
Brendan I. Koerner
In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of sixties idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to foreign lands, where they imagined being hailed as heroes; others aimed to swap hostages for sacks of cash. Their criminal exploits mesmerized the country, never more so than when the young lovers at the heart of Brendan I. Koerner's "The Skies Belong to Us" pulled off the longest-distance hijacking in American history.
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