Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez and Her Father's Quest for Justice

Textures of Terror is a gripping first-person story of women, violence, and migration out of Guatemala, exploring how the United States is implicated in the murder of a female law student and the pervasive violence against Guatemalan women. It offers a deeper understanding of US policies in Latin America and their ripple effect on migration, presenting the stories of other women who have suffered at the hands of strangers, intimate partners, and the security forces.

Format: Hardback
Length: 230 pages
Publication date: 09 May 2023
Publisher: University of California Press

Investigating the unsolved murder of a female law student and the pervasive violence against Guatemalan women that drives migration is the subject of Textures of Terror, a gripping first-person narrative of women, violence, and migration out of Guatemala. Accompanying Jorge Velásquez in a years-long search for answers after the brutal murder of his daughter Claudina Isabel, Victoria Sanford explores what it means to seek justice in postconflict countries where violence never ended. Through this father's determined struggle and other stories of justice denied, Textures of Terror offers a deeper understanding of US policies in Latin America and their ripple effect on migration. Sanford offers an up-close appraisal of the inner workings of the Guatemalan criminal justice system and how it maintains inequality, patriarchy, and impunity. Presenting the stories of other women who have suffered at the hands of strangers, intimate partners, and the security forces, this work reveals the deeply gendered nature of power and violence in Guatemala.

Weight: 450g
Dimension: 158 x 238 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780520393455