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Testimony: The Maria Guardado Story

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Director(s)	Randy Vasquez
Release Date	2001
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Runtime	63 min min
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Film Description

This gripping and complex documentary recounts the story of Maria Guardado, whose political activism stems from the horrific ordeal she suffered during the civil war in her native El Salvador. Kidnapped and brutally tortured by CIA-assisted death squads, she now lives in Los Angeles. TESTIMONY follows her odyssey and the trauma that provoked it. But if the inner demons of her past still torment Maria Guardado, they have also moved this inconspicuous old woman to be an energetic and ubiquitous presence in political activism. The video documents her first return visit to El Salvador in twenty years, where Guardado reconfronts her past and draws inspiration for her tireless struggle for social justice.