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Emilie Teresa Smith

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So far Emilie Teresa Smith has created 2 blog entries.

NEGOTIATING PUS RIVER, WHILE MAKING A NEST IN XIBALBÁ

September 10th, 2011|

Dear beloved friends, I am Emilie Teresa Smith, an Argentine-Canadian Anglican priest, theologian, mother, writer, and community member of the town, Santa Cruz del Quiché, in the western highlands of Guatemala. I have been a companion of Guatemala, since 1984, though I have lived in this particular town for only two years. Here with dear […]

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CHANGE! or else

April 4th, 2011|

In the late nineteen eighties and early nineties, I was an active member of the Rebel Armed Forces of Guatemala. I only once fired a gun, at no one, in a meadow, and it hurt my hand, but none-the-less, I was a collaborator, an arms, mail and money collector and runner. I was a participant in a process of death. Violence was my shield and tool.

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