Tribute // UNVEILING HISTORY
Open Secrets
Survivors of a Civil War
Words and Images by Roberto Quezada-Dardon
EXCERPT //
Domingo Gonzales has a humble, weathered face. He speaks gently and gestures with tanned, rough hands. He is very proud of his son’s education, the nonprofit scholarship fund he manages, and what it has accomplished.
Mr. Gonzales had hoped to get at least a high school education but got only as far as the third grade when the community teacher was dismissed for drunkenness. No replacement was ever found, and Domingo Gonzales grew up learning how to work on engines instead.
What brought him to San Cristóbal was the savagery of the Guatemalan 36-year civil war, far worse on the distant edges of Alta Verapaz, where it borders Mexico. His third son, Rudy, was born near the end of this American-backed conflict, believed to be against a communist threat, but Domingo and his family lived through almost all of it. //
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