AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.

The Art of Political Murder.(Brief article)(Book review)

The New Yorker

| October 01, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2007 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

On April 26, 1998, after the U.N. brokered an end to Guatemala's decades-long civil war, Bishop Juan Gerardi was beaten to death. Two days earlier, he had presided over the release of a report that, while documenting abuses by both the government and the guerrillas, held the Guatemalan Army responsible for the vast majority of the two hundred thousand civilian deaths in the conflict. Trying to discover who murdered the bishop ...

Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more
A Guatemalan whodunit: book probes the mystery surrounding the brutal murder of...
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Jeffrey, Paul October 19, 2007 700+ words
...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE ART OF POLITICAL MURDER: WHO KILLED THE BISHOP? By...pages, $25 When Guatemalan Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera was killed...Gerardi drama, and in The Art of Political Murder he dissects the narrative and...
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century Jeffrey, Paul February 12, 2008 700+ words
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? By Francisco...just two days after Guatemalan bishop Juan Gerardi released a report about...ordinary people. In The Art of Political Murder, he looks at extraordinary people...
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Publishers Weekly July 30, 2007 700+ words
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? FRANCISCO GOLDMAN. Grove, $25 (384p...pursues in his first nonfiction book the infamous murder of Bishop Juan Gerardi, the Guatemalan human rights leader murdered after the...
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?(Western Hemisphere)(Brief...
Magazine article from: Foreign Affairs Feinberg, Richard November 1, 2008 700+ words
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? BY FRANCISCO GOLDMAN. Grove Press...researched investigation into the 1998 assassination of the Guatemalan bishop Juan Gerardi pits the unspeakably evil Guatemalan military against...
Goldman, Francisco. The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?(Brief...
Magazine article from: Library Journal Morris, Elizabeth September 15, 2007 700+ words
Goldman, Francisco. The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? Grove. Sept. 2007. c.384p...modern Guatemala as he explores the shocking 1998 murder of Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera in Guatemala City. A human rights activist...
GUATEMALA: TWO-PAGE REPORT ON BISHOP JUAN GERARDI ASSASSINATION FAILS TO...
Newspaper article from: NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs November 2, 2000 700+ words
Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo released a long- overdue report on the April 1998 assassination of Bishop Juan Gerardi (see EcoCentral, 1998-04-30). The Catholic Church, human rights organizations, and other critics of the investigation...
Death squad claims responsibility.(assassinated Guatemalan Bishop Juan Gerardi...
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Lanchin, Mike May 22, 1998 700+ words
...that operated during the late 1980s and early '90s has claimed responsibility for the brutal murder of Guatemala Auxiliary Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera and has threatened to continue the killings. A letter claiming responsibility was released just as NCR was...
Priest charged again in bishop's death.(Bishop Juan Gerardi of Guatemala...
Magazine article from: The Christian Century April 12, 2000 700+ words
After nearly two years of investigation, Guatemalan authorities have again charged a priest in the death of Bishop Juan Gerardi, the human rights crusader bludgeoned to death after releasing a report accusing the military of being responsible...
Guatemalan bishop's dream no longer deferred.(Bishop Juan Gerardi)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Jeffrey, Paul May 16, 2003 700+ words
When the followers of Bishop Juan Gerardi gathered April 26 with candles and songs outside the parish residence where the human rights champion was brutally murdered...
New Gerardi report termed inadequate.(case of Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter JEFFREY, PAUL November 3, 2000 700+ words
...delays, Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo finally released a report on Oct. 14 detailing what he knows about who killed Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera in 1998. Like many of the developments in this murder turned soap opera, it was one step forward, two...
For more facts and information, see all results
©2009 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
About us | FAQs | Contact us | Privacy policy | Terms and conditions
Other Gale sites: Encyclopedia.com | HighBeam Research | Acquire Content | Books & Authors | Goliath | MovieRetriever | Smart QandA