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Víctor Montoya
Víctor Montoya (born June 21, 1958) is a Bolivian writer, cultural journalist, and pedagogue. Imprisoned by the dictatorship in his native Bolivia, he became an exile following a campaign by Amnesty International in 1977. Biography Born in La Paz on June 21, 1958. From early childhood he lived in the mining towns of Siglo XX and Llallagua, in northern Potosí department. There, the miserable conditions of the miners led him to identify with and join their efforts to change those conditions. At the age of 9 he witnessed the Massacre of San Juan. In 1976, as a result of his political activities, he was persecuted, tortured, and jailed by the military dictatorship of Hugo Banzer Suárez. While imprisoned in the San Pedro Prison and in the top-security jail of Chonchocoro-Viacha, he wrote his first published book, the eyewitness account ''Strike and Repression.'' Freed from prison through a campaign of Amnesty International, he arrived in Sweden Sweden, formally the Kin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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