Guatemala- Another Victim?
You, Guatemala, are a fist and a fistful of American dust with seeds a small fistful of hope. Defend it, defend us ... because in the dark hours you were the honor, the pride, the dignity of...
...On her mother's side, Guatemalan...
...Raised in Guatemala, she was forced to leave that country more than twenty years ago when her husband, the director of Social Security under the progressive Arbenz government and a member of the Guatemalan Labor Party, was exiled to Mexico after a CIAsponsored right-wing coup in 1954...
...According to statistics compiled by the Democratic Front Against Repression in Guatemala, more than 2,000 people were assassinated by that country's extreme right paramilitary forces in the final three months of 1980...
...On her father's side, she is an Argentine of Italian ancestry, born in Spain...
...recently, El Salvador...
...What did the Army fear in Alaide Foppa, a 67-year-old university professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM...
...Yet the International Committee for the Life of Alaide Foppa, which publishes a daily announcement in the Mexican paper, Uno Mas Uno, unequivocally states, "We hold the Guatemalan government responsible for her life...
...because in the dark hours you were the honor, the pride, the dignity of the Americas...
...It is fervently hoped that Alaide Foppa and Leocadio Acttn have not become part of that grim statistic...
...Compiled in New York with information from Graciela Duarte and the Comit6 de Ayuda por la Vida de Alaide Foppa (Mexico) and Elizabeth Weiner (New York...
...A 42 writer, art critic and poet, Foppa has also produced more than 400 radio programs on women's liberation...
...Although she grew up in a Guatemalan family of wealth and position, Alaide Foppa has worked tirelessly for the rights of the poor in her native country and, more Concerned people in the United States are urged by Foppa's supporters to send telegrams demanding the Guatemalan government account for Foppa's whereabouts and end the repression against the Guatemalan people to: Presidente Romeo Lucas Garcia, Palacio del Gobierno, Guatemala...
...El Quiche has been under fierce attack by the Guatemalan Armed Forces, as the center of an increasingly strong, indigeneous-based guerrilla movement...
...Pablo Neruda (1954) JanlFeb 1981 Alaide Foppa, feminist and human rights activist, was visiting her native country of Guatemala last December 19 when she and her driver, Leocadio Actin, were stopped by three masked men armed with machine guns...
...It was for one of these programs that she recently conducted a series of interviews with peasant women in the Quiche region of Guatemala...
...Foppa's interviews document forcefully the genocidal aims of the Guatemalan military...
...At UNAM, Foppa became the first person in Latin America to teach a university course on women, and was a co-founder and editor of fem, Mexico's most respected feminist journal...
...The Guatemalan government has implausibly attributed Foppa's kidnapping to "the minority of Guatemalan leftist troublemakers," and has published no other information on her disappearance...
...According to Guatemala's most power41update * update * update * update Disappeared feminist professor and poet Alaide Foppa...
...ful labor organization, Foppa was kidnapped by the Intelligence Service (G-2) of the Guatemalan Army...
...Her life weaves together many of the threads that make up the present-day Latin American tapestry...
...Although virtually unknown in the United States, Foppa is widely respected in Latin America...
...Since then she has lived, worked and struggled in Mexico...
Vol. 15 • January 1981 • No. 1
