Interview is in Spanish. Carlos Mauricio, Director of the Stop Impunity Project, discusses the two-week period he was held and tortured by the Salvadoran military and his activism in El Salvador and the United States. In this interview, Mauricio recounts his childhood and education in El Salvador, his involvement with the student union, his eventual imprisonment and torture by the Salvadoran government, and his current work as Director of the Stop Impunity Project. This interview was conducted in Austin, Texas as part of the 2014 Lozano Long Conference Micro Oral History Project. | 00:15-11:04 Introductions; 00:36-17:48 Childhood, Education, and Initial Activism; 05:13-11:04 Move to San Salvador, Friendship with Roberto Armijo and University Education; 11:04-17:48 Involvement in the Student Union and the 1971 Teacher's Strike; 17:48-33:23 the Prelude to the Civil War and Carlos Mauricio's studies in Mexico; 37:32-43:15 Return to El Salvador in 1983; 43:16-01:02:08 Disappearance and Torture in July 1983; 43:16-47:40 Attack and Disappearance; 47:40-01:00:28 Detention, Torture and Interrogation; 01:00:28-01:02:08 Release and Notifying the Red Cross; 01:02:08-01:11:26 Court Case against Garcia and Vides Casanova; 01:11:26-01:19:22 Ongoing Work to Stop Impunity and Repression in El Salvador; 01:19:22-01:29:04 Concluding Thoughts
Creator/Contributor:
Mauricio, Carlos R. (Narrator) and Gutierrez Jr., Miguel (Interviewer)
Date Created/Date Issued:
2014-02-20
Owning Repository:
Benson Latin American Collection, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, The University of Texas at Austin
sound recordings, mixed material, and Oral histories
Extent:
01 hours, 29 minutes, 04 seconds
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Language:
Spanish
Publisher:
University of Texas Libraries
Topic:
Civil war--El Salvador--History--20th century--Personal narratives and Torture--El Salvador
Place Name:
El Salvador and United States
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utblac:639d7c14-4ac9-45e3-b836-c8fcf1770634
Local:
ll2014_01
Related Resource - Other:
"Archiving the Central American Revolutions" Micro Oral History Collection (title) and https://txarchives.org/utlac/finding_aids/00384.xml (uri)