Book description
On a Sunday night in 1998, Bishop Juan Gerardi, Guatemala's leading
human rights activist, was bludgeoned to death. Two days earlier, a
Church-sponsored report had implicated Guatemala's government in the
disappearances of 200,000 civilians. The Church, feeling that it could
not rely on the legal system, took the controversial decision to
assemble a team of men, Los Intocables (The Untouchables), to take
down Gerardi's killers. n a gripping reconstruction, worthy of Graham
Greene, Francisco Goldman traces Los Intocables struggle with the
Guatemalan authorities to reveal the true story, uncovering the
involvement of youth gangs, political corruption and organised crime.
Most of all, he tells the story of an extraordinary group of
courageous people and their fight for justice.
