Searching for Everado: a story of love, war & the CIA in Guatemala

by: Jennifer K. Harbury

ISBN: 0446520365

This is a true account of an American attorney who worked for refugee human rights in Guatemala during 1985-1986. It is the compelling, story of how she met and married Efrain Velasquez, known as Commander Everado, a resistance fighter battling against the brutal fascist government of Gen. Rios Montt.  Everado vanishes in the spring of 1992 after returning from peace talks convened in Mexico City.  Although Harbury is informed that he committed suicide during a skirmish with the Guatemalan army, she finds out one year later, from an escaped POW, that hundreds of resistance fighters are being tortured at a remote Guatemalan military base, and Everado is there. Thus begins Harbury's struggle, to obtain information from 'official' sources about her husband's whereabouts, and her unsuccessful struggle to free him, which will span years.  Lied to by successive Guatemalan governments and by agencies of the United States, she learns in 1995 from Sen. Torricelli (D-NJ) that Everado has been assassinated by the Guatemalan army.  This account is highly illustrative of the complicity, connection, of United States intelligence agencies and government bureaucrats at the State Department with human rights atrocities committed in Guatemala, by government death squads.   

Posted  October 1, 2004

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