(K-12 Outreach) Rufina Amaya: Online Resources - English

El Mozote Massacre
Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives
The Interpretation and Representation of Latino Cultures:
Research and Museums Conference Documentation - Presentations - Historicizing Narratives
Rodriguez, A.P, "Projections of Homeland: Remembering the Civil War in El Salvador "
http://latino.si.edu/researchandmuseums/presentations/rodriguez_paper.html

United States Institute of Peace Library
Truth Commissions: Reports: El Salvador
Report on El Mozote massacre and other cases
http://www.usip.org/library/tc/doc/reports/el_salvador/tc_es_03151993_toc.html

CNN.com
Article in Archives:
" El Salvador town buries loved ones on massacre anniversary", Dec. 10, 2000.
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/americas/12/10/elsalvador.bury.ap/

RTFCAM
Religious Task Force on Central America and Mexico
"Still, they are burying the dead." Central America/Mexico Report, Dec. 2000 Issue
http://www.rtfcam.org/martyrs/fullness_of_life/el_mozote.htm

Fact Index
The Mozote Massacre - Links
http://www.fact-index.com/e/el/el_mozote_massacre.html

CARECEN
The Central American Refugee Center - N.Y.
The UN Truth Commission on the Mozote massacre-
Summary of the case - Description of the facts - Background - Subsequent Events - The results of the exhumations - List of victims
http://www.icomm.ca/carecen/page61.html

Nationmaster.com
El Mozote Massacre
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/El-Mozote-massacre

Newspaper & Magazine Articles
The New Yorker - markdanner.com
The Truth of El Mozote - 12 page article
http://www.markdanner.com/newyorker/120693_The_Massacre.htm

Soujourners magazine
Article: "The long shadow of El Mozote" -1993
Interview with Rufina Amaya
http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&mode=printer_friendly&issue=soj9409&article=940961

Voices of the Border
Article: "The slain finally rest in peace" Daniel Gonzalez, New York Times
http://www.votb.org/elmozote.html

BusinessWeek online
"A murdered village comes back to life," Christian Hoag
http://www.businessweek.com/2001/01_10/b3722174.htm

Columbia Journalism Review
The Mozote Massacre
http://archives.cjr.org/year/93/1/mozote.asp

Related Web Sites
United Nations - Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

Activities
Tropical America :
-Didactic video-game
Tropical America is an online game that fuses the new world of video games to a compelling past through a journey to unravel the mysteries of the Americas . Your journey begins as the sole survivor of a terrible massacre - you must find four pieces of evidence to bring justice to the memory of your small village. Developed in collaboration with Los Angeles artists, teachers, writers and high school students, the game features a bilingual, thematic gameplay, accompanied by an online database of educational resource materials, source texts and imagery.

Inspired by the similarly titled mural by David Alfaro Siqueiros- subsequently whitewashed in Los Angeles in 1932- Tropical America explores the causes and effects of the erasure of history. From the battles of Bolivar, to the single-crop economy of Cuba , the myth of El Dorado and the poems of Sor Juana de la Cruz, Tropical America reveals a forgotten terrain, the birthplace of contemporary cross-cultural life.

The game was produced as part of a media literacy program working with Title I high school students around issues of violence and games, funded primarily by the Department of Education. Recognizing the impact of electronic games, OnRamp Co-Directors Steven Metts and Jessica Irish proposed that students collaborate with artists to conceptualize, develop and produce an alternative video game. Metts and Irish brought in media artist Juan Devis to help lead the project.

The story of Rufina Amaya, sole survivor of the 1981 massacre of El Mozote in El Salvador , becomes the contextual anchor for Tropical America, and the impetus from which the game begins. El Mozote symbolizes the silencing of one people's histories and the perseverance of its survivors to bring the events into the open.
http://www.tropicalamerica.com/

Sources: http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?27732 http://scale.ucsd.edu/volumes/2004/04/contents/tropical_america_1.pdf

For details contact: Lilian Cibils, tel: (505)-646-4564, Fax: (505)-646-6819 K-12 Program Coordinator, E-mail: lcibils@nmsu.edu

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