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Engrossing memoir of US proxy war in El Salvador
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For the Love of the Struggle: Memoirs from El Salvador
by Andres McKinley
(Daraja Press, £16.99)
NORMALLY, I’d be wary of a book written by a North American who cut his teeth as a US Peace Corps volunteer in Africa which is purportedly about the struggles of people in a poor country.
But this book disabused me of that prejudice.
Its author Andres McKinley spent several decades living and working in El Salvador among the peasants and the guerillas and his experience gave rise to this incredibly moving and well-written narrative of the daily heroism of El Salvador’s people in the face of insurmountable odds.
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