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...