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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In recognition of my appreciation for the people and institutions that have contributed moral, academic, technical, and financial support during the twenty-eight years it took for this work to come to completion, I owe special gratitude to Sharon O’Day, Laurie Solak, and Mitchell Alan White for research assistance; to Natalie Ann White for editorial work; to Richard Brown, Sandra Coliver, Mary Ellsberg, Joyce Kornblatt, Bert Lockwood Jr., Celeste Meza, Steven Schneebaum, Charles Pinkney Reed, Peter Weiss, and Michelle Zarella for manuscript suggestions; to Michelle Burgess, Tashy Calway, Arline Chase, Harvey Cheezem, Al D’Amato, Rose DiRenzo, and Eva Jane Simmons for technical assistance; to Celeste Aguilera Caló, Cristina Aldereti, Oscar Dario Croce, Gladys Crosky, Nancy de Guillen, Raymond Mendez P. Hines, Marina Mendez Paiva, and Victor Ortiz Montaner for transcriptions and translations; to Walter Gaffney and Jeannette Rodgers of La Esperanza Fund, Stephen Marks of the Ford Foundation , Don McNeill of the McNeill Family Foundation, and Raymond Simmons for financial assistance; to E. Bradford Burns, Marketta Freund, Charles Goldberg, Barbara Kelly, Gerald and Bobby Nehman, Mario Pastore, Alvin Rosenbloom, and Herman Ziering for their support of the Filártigas’ cause; to Drs. Robert Burr, William Hurwitz, Herman Kabat, and Richard Lords for helping me through times of physical difficulties; and especially to Richard Pierre Claude and Henri J. M. Nouwen for their friendship and unqualified support through these years. The art that appear before each chapter are the drawings of Dr. Joel Filártiga, with the exception of the drawing before chapter five, which was done by Dr. Filártiga’s daugher, Analy. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the people whose contributions are described in Breaking Silence, as well as all the others who helped in many ways but are too numerous to mention here, and those who cannot be named because, even at this time, they could still be harmed should their participation become known. Regardless of these enormous contributions, I accept full responsibility for all translations and any conceptual or factual errors. This page intentionally left blank ...

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