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Miguel Mármol is the testimony of a revolutionary, as recorded by Salvadoran writer, Roque Dalton, which documents the historical and political events of El Salvador through the first decades of the 20th century. This Latin American classic describes the growth and development of the workers' movement and the communist party in El Salvador and Guatemala, and contains Mármol's impressions of post-revolutionary Russia in the twenties, describing in vivid detail the brutality and repression of the Martínez dictatorship and the reemergence of the workers' movement after Martínez was ousted. It also gives a broad and clear picture of the lives of the ordinary peasant and worker in Central America, their sufferings, their hopes and their struggles.
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Jon Long
reviewed Miguel Marmol on June 27, 2008 Miguel Marmol
Just started this. only about 70 pages in but it is already fascinating, fast-moving. these are incredible events that miguel marmol describes as a young man growing out of poverty and moving toward leftist principles and into revolutionary action.
miguel marmol was one of the few survivors of the 1932 matanza, or massacre, of over 30,000 people after a failed uprising in the western highlands of el salvador.
this book is often called the first of its kind -- a testimonial, where the subject is given license to act as historian. this is done in an effort to give voice to and comprehend a sort of cultural and political inheritance and to acknowledge personal experience and the retelling of events as being just as critical to our understanding as the "objective facts".
this book might be best read in succession with "remembering the 1932 massacre of el salvador" -- a dry title for an amazingly researched and kind of startling book that refutes the claim that the 1932 uprising in el salvador was communist-inspired and gives abundant space and evidence to counter-claims that it that was an indigenous-led revolt. the implications for this revelation are enormous, especially as the right AND the left have propped up the political theory that the ongoing battle in el salvador is a war between communist and capitalist forces more than a struggle between indigenous people and colonialist thugs.
the book has a whole section about roque dalton and another section that describes his meetings with miguel marmol in preparation for this testimonial.
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