Miguel Mrmol

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  This is a translation of his original interview with Miguel Marmol, communist, working class legend of El Salvador. Miguel Marmol survived a firing squad during the "Matanza" of January 1932, when there was an uprising by "workers and peasants" put down by the military in a blood bath. Marmol recounts how after being shot by a firing squad, he was spared the coup de grace bullet because the blood and brain matter of a Soviet (Russian internationalist) who was beside him sp... (show more)

  This is a translation of his original interview with Miguel Marmol, communist, working class legend of El Salvador. Miguel Marmol survived a firing squad during the "Matanza" of January 1932, when there was an uprising by "workers and peasants" put down by the military in a blood bath. Marmol recounts how after being shot by a firing squad, he was spared the coup de grace bullet because the blood and brain matter of a Soviet (Russian internationalist) who was beside him splattered over his head. This gave pause to the captain who was shooting the fallen once in the head and when he saw Marmol said out loud, why waste another bullet on this poor bastard (or something to that effect). Marmol dragged himself from the pile of dead and lived to survive another six such ordeals with death (hangings, etc.) He came to the U.S. on a book tour when Curbstone Press issued this edition in 1986 or so. I heard Marmol speak and described his outreach work with uncanny detail and memory. Roque Dalton, who interviewed Marmol in Prague when both were living in exile, also had similar brushes with death and near death. IN the end Marmol, who was already in his 80s when he came to the U.S., outlived Dalton by some fifteen years. Dalton would have in his 70s now if he were still alive. (show less)

   

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