Flight of the Condor: Stories of Violence and War from Colombia

"From the war, what keeps coming back to me, most vividly, is the day we buried our weapons. And the worst of it is that our weapons are still there, waiting for us. At the foot of the fig tree. I'd like to find the boys who have the same itch now that I had. I'd like to take them over there, to the Meta River, where so many years ago we buried the treasure. Ten rifles, an FA assault rifle, and a Thompson machine gun are a good start. I'd like to say to them, 'There you have it; go after it, boys, go after it. It's your party now.'"-excerpted from "The Day We Buried Our Weapons" by Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza "Only one minute before, my hands were empty-in a pose of helplessness, of someone who has no job, of someone who is a little hungry-imagining the possibility of one day being able to go into that shop and eat, meticulously, one after the other, all of the pastries in the window. One minute later the revolution was presenting me with a gift in the form of a machete. But what for? I didn't know."-excerpted from "Prelude" by Hernando TÉllezEdwards, Jennifer is the author of 'Flight of the Condor: Stories of Violence and War from Colombia', published 2007 under ISBN 9780299223649 and ISBN 0299223647.