The Eyes That Have Cried

The Eyes That Have Cried is a true, first-person account of survival in a land torn by war. Teresa Cortez is a young girl living in El Salvador in the 1980s. The Salvadoran Civil War produces no winners and is a tragedy in which neither side can claim moral high ground. The government uses death squads; the rebels use terrorism. As with most of the population, Teresa is caught in the middle, watching as the country devolves into chaos. As the violence ramps up, a “bourgeois” life of privilege pu