When the Dogs Ate Candles : A Time in El Salvador [first edition]

At once a memoir and an exposition of the stories of El Salvadoran human rights workers and others who resisted the U.S.-backed terror of the El Salvadoran regime in the 1980s. Based on interviews conducted by the author during his years of activism in the Central America solidarity movement, particularly "the Accompaniment Project," in which U.S. activists would work by the sides of El Salvadorans in the hope that the death squads would be reluctant to kill U.S. citizens. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.