Presents an account of the author's experiences as a member of M-19, one of the most successful guerrilla movements in Colombia's tumultuous modern history. This book also tells about her childhood in a middle-class provincial household in which she was encouraged to be adventurous and inquisitive.

In My Life as a Revolutionary, Maria Eugenia Vasquez Perdomo presents a gripping account of her experiences as a member of M-19, one of the most successful guerrilla movements in Colombia's tumultuous modern history. Vasquez's remarkable story opens with her happy childhood in a middle-class provincial household in which she was encouraged to be adventurous and inquisitive. As an eighteen-year-old university student in Bogota, Maria Eugenia embraced radical politics and committed herself to militant action to rid her country of an abusive government. operations in the 1970s and 1980s and...

This is the first major, book-length memoir of a political prisoner from Mexico's "dirty war" of the 1970s. Written with the urgency of a first-person narrative, it is a unique work, providing an inside story of guerrilla activities and a gripping tale of imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Mexican government. Alberto Ulloa Bornemann was a young idealist when he dedicated himself to clandestine resistance and to assisting Lucio Cabanas, the guerrilla leader of the "Party of the Poor". Here, the author exposes readers to the day-to-day activities of revolutionary activists seeking to...

A memoir of a political prisoner from Mexico's "dirty war" of the 1970s. It provides an inside story of guerrilla activities and a tale of imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Mexican government.