The U.S. Holocaust in Central America

Author Thomas Melville speaks about his latest book,

Through a Glass Darkly: The U.S. Holocaust in Central America.

Monday, November 19, 2007.
7:00 PM
Albuquerque Center For Peace and Justice
(202 Harvard SE)

Thomas Melville, born in 1929, was ordained as a Maryknoll priest and sent to Guatemala in 1957. There he founded co-operatives and worked on economic development and land distribution programs. Melville was exiled from Guatemala for his work in organizing peasants in opposition to the government. After leaving the order and marrying former Maryknoll sister Marjorie Bradford, he returned to the United States to advocate against U.S. government and business practices in Guatemala. The Melvilles participated in the burning of draft records with napalm in Catonsville Maryland in hopes of bringing attention to U.S. involvement in Guatemalan affairs. After serving his time for the Catonsville incident, Melville earned a PhD in cultural anthropology and has continued as a scholar and activist in Guatemalan affairs. He is the author of a number of books including Guatemala: Another Vietnam and Guatemala: The Politics of Land Ownership. The Melvilles currently reside in Mexico.

*This event is sponsored by the Student Organization for Latin American Studies (SOLAS), Multinational Intellectual Thinkers and Doers (MITAD), Religious Studies, and the Freshman Learning Community*