Victoria Sanford
Writer, Public Anthropologist, Human Rights Advocate, Environmentalist, Mother
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Textures of Terror
The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez and Her Father's Quest for Justice
Investigating the unsolved murder of a female law student and the pervasive violence against Guatemalan women that drives migration.
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Kerry Kennedy
President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
In Textures of Terror, Victoria Sanford brilliantly unravels complex and widespread gender-based violence in Guatemala and how the very institutions created to combat it perpetuate violence and impunity. Above all, she tells the love story of a father's ceaseless quest for justice for the murder of his beloved daughter.
Stephen Kinzer
Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, and world affairs columnist for the Boston Globe
How can anyone convey Guatemala's descent into ultra-violence following a US-backed coup decades ago? Sanford does it beautifully by telling a single poignant story and placing it against the country's dazzling political and cultural background. Harrowing but deeply insightful, Textures of Terror shows how ordinary people react and resist as a society decomposes.
Carolina Escobar Sarti
National Director, La Alianza Guatemala
This book is simultaneously one book and many. One chronicles the murder of a young female law student. The others explore the layers of systemic horror that remind us that to be a woman in twenty-first-century Guatemala is to live in danger, in the shadow of violence, impunity, and historical oppression
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