The Murder of Bishop Juan Gerardi
Open Society recently hosted a discussion and reception with Francisco Goldman, author of The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? (Grove Press), about the murder of Guatemalan bishop Juan Gerardi.
The Art of Political Murder takes the reader deep inside the phantasmagoric and upside-down world of a broken state, where powerful CIA-trained military intelligence chiefs have gone from fighting guerrillas to working for drug cartels; where judges scheme against the law; where honest justice workers are vilified in the media while convicted murderers are given newspaper columns; a “democracy” where real power is clandestine, and society is controlled through blackmail, extortion, omnipresent informers, violence, and fear.
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