Tag: coffee plantation
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Why did they murder my father?
My mother, Amanda, continues with her memoir–and the questions of why her father was murdered. My grandmamá Martina’s servants gossiped about my father, Pilar Reyes, and his murder. He had been the ninth of twelve children, all who lived in Berlín, the town where I was born, in the northern mountains of El Salvador. They…
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“They killed him. They’ll kill her too.”
After reading his Bible in the mornings in his rose garden, my grandfather Papa Polo walked three miles into the country with an empty pail in his hand. He kept a young cow which gave fresh milk for all of us. He handed the pail to the cook to boil before serving it at our breakfast; the…