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Voices of Peace
Vol.VI
¡Volveremos fotos!
We Shall Return!
A Project to Document
Living with the Consequences of U. S. Policy
The Central America Photo/Testimony Project
Text by Pam Fitzpatrick
Photography by Paul Dix
Two-year-old Luz Mabel Lumbi Rizo lost her arm to a contra bullet when her home was
attacked on the 8th of December 1986, in the El Cedro district of Nicaragua. Her
father, Jose Francisco Lumbi Herrrera, 52, was killed as was Luz Mabel's 38-day-old
baby sister. Mother and 4 children were wounded.
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Luz Mabel's sister who survived the attack, 12-year-old Josefa Lumbi
Rizo, drew this picture. Josefa's drawing shows a contra firing into the house, while
another throws a hand grenade through a window. Her two brothers are holding the
doors shut. Her father and sister lie dead next to Luz Mabel who is wounded. All
members of the family were unarmed civilians.
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Nicaragua-Lagartillo Co-op and Resettlement Camp - home of Perez
family in which father and 14-year-old daughter (who was crippled by polio) were
killed defending their community from a contra attack on 31 December 1984. Photo
taken in May 1988.
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Nicaragua-town of Rio Blanco in the department of Matagalpa-Burial
of Sandinista soldier killed by the contras.
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Nicaragua-Jinotega-27 March 1986Holy Thursday-Oone of 6 security
police (non-combative) killed in contra ambush. On the day we remember Judas betrayed
Jesus, the U.S. congress voted $100 million for the contras.
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Nicaragua-Department of Nueva Segovia-Jumuyca Co-op and Resettlement
camp, children's dining hall, 1985.
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To article by Pam Fiztpatrick, Volveremos!
We Shall Return
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