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Torn from the World: A Guerrilla's Escape from a Secret Prison in Mexico

Torn from the World: A Guerrilla's Escape from a Secret Prison in Mexico

Gibler, John

Paperback

Series: City Lights Open Media

Political BiographiesGeneral Political Science

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ISBN10: 0872867528
ISBN13: 9780872867529
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: Sep 18 2018
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.00 Depth: 6.90
Language: English

The book that most shocked me this year for its literary quality is called Tzompaxtle, although in English it has another title, Torn from the World. The author is John Gibler, a real outlaw.--Diego Enrique Osorno, author of El Cartel de Sinaloa

Andres Tzompaxtle Tecpile was torn from the world. Abducted off the street, blindfolded and beaten, he was brought to a Mexican military facility and disappeared. Tzompaxtle, a young member of an insurgent guerrilla movement, was subjected to months of interrogation and torture as the military tried to extract information from him. In an effort to buy time to protect his family and comrades, and to keep himself alive, he lead his captors on fruitless journeys to abandoned safe-houses and false rendezvous locations for four months. Finally, faced with imminent execution, he decided to make what he thought was a suicidal attempt at escape; when he miraculously survived, he was able to return underground.

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