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the same enthusiasm as the Spanish invaders. Temuco (where Neruda was
born) was the last heartbeat of Auracanía” (31).
22. Taussig, Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wild Man, 25; see also 27–28.
23. The story is included in Lida, Letras hispánicas, 301–30.
24. Fuentes “Chac Mool,” Cuentos sobrenaturales, 9–24; Cortázar, “La noche
boca arriba,” in Final del juego, 171–79; Boullosa, Llanto; Paz, Critique of the
Pyramid; Gustavo Sáinz, Fantasmas aztecas.
25. He used it in a lecture given at Barnard College on 17 October 2011.
26. Saldaña, The Revolutionary Imagination, 43.
27. See Schirmer, The Guatemalan Military Project.
28. Grandin, “The Instruction of a Great Catastrophe,” par. 6.
29. Ubilluz, Vich, and Hibbett, Contra el sueño de los justos, 29–31.
30. Kokotovic, The Colonial Divide in Peruvian Narrative, 2.
31. Turits, Foundations of Despotism, 165.
32. The buried book underscores the contrast between the fate of the literary
record and oral transmission.
33. Koonings and Kruijt, introduction to Societies of Fear, 7.
34. There is a difference between the mass hysteria of the massacre and the
torture scene discussed in chaps. 2 and 7. See especially the discussion of
the “war pack” in Canetti, Crowds and Power, 99–103.
35. Colombia, Grupo de Memoria Histórica de la Comisión Nacional de Reparación
y Reconciliación, Trujillo, 14–20.
36. See Colombia, Grupo de Memoria Histórica de la Comisión Nacional de
Reparación y Reconciliación, El Salado.
37. Colombia, Grupo de Memoria Histórica de la Comisión Nacional de Reparación
y Reconciliación, Trujillo, 74–75.
38. Feitlowitz, A Lexicon of Terror, 8–11.
39. For an extended account of the training of Latin Americans in counterterrorism,
see Gill, The School of the Americas.
40. Danner, The Massacre at El Mozote, 49.
41. Danner, The Massacre at El Mozote, 50.
42. Sofsky, Violence, 25.
43. Levi, The Drowned and the Saved, 105–6.
44. Levi, The Drowned and the Saved, 126.
45. Report of the Chilean National Commission on Truth and Reconciliation
Chile, 140.
46. Lauria-Santiago, “The Culture and Politics of State Terror and Repression
in El Salvador,” in When States Kill, 100.
47. Hylton, Evil Hour in Colombia, 44–45.