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Spatializing the immobility of Guatemalan transnationalism in Canada
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Survivor Vignettes(1)
On 8 December 1976, Miguel woke at 5:30 a.m., as usual, to run to the local shop for the morning's paper. In its pages he read the words that confirmed what he already suspected, that the Secret Anticommunist Army had included his name on a list of people targeted for execution. Miguel, an electrician and head of a major trade union in Guatemala City, survived two kidnapping attempts before seeking asylum in Canada.
In 1988, guerrillas left Roberto for dead...
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