Summary

In "Leticia: El Mozote & Berkeley, 1981-2000," Leticia Cordero and her family lived in El Mozote in El Salvador. When she was 7 years old, Leticia suffered a stomach ailment. She was taken to the hospital when she began throwing up blood. She was scheduled for emergency surgery to repair a ruptured ulcer.

Leticia’s father went home while his daughter was in the hospital. When Leticia’s father arrived five days later, he had the expression of a person who had “walked through hell and back” (55). When Leticia asked if they were going back to El Mozote on the bus, her father told her they were never going back.

It was only when Leticia was an adult that she began to learn the truth about what happened in her village. A military operative trained by the...