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63 Tex. L. Rev. 1377 (1984-1985)
Spring Break

handle is hein.journals/tlr63 and id is 1399 raw text is: Texas Law Review Volume 63, Number 8, May 1985 Spring Break David Kennedy* I. At 10:00 a.m., March 22, 1984, as guards led Ana Rivera into the small white clinic at Punta Rieles prison, Dr. Richard Goldstein, Patrick Breslin, and I became the first outsiders to speak privately and uncondi- tionally with any of the roughly 700 political prisoners held in Uru- guayan prisons at that time. We shook her hand, invited the prison officials to leave, and sat down at a small table. She was a small woman, about 23 years old, her auburn hair pulled awkwardly back in a child's yellow plastic barrette. Around each wrist hung a red and white string bracelet. Under her prison overalls, stenciled boldly with her identifica- tion number, she wore two layers of clothing. Fearing transfer to an- other prison or judicial proceeding when officials had come for her some moments before, she had worn her wardrobe to our brief meeting. Her hands trembled nervously. Patrick's explanation of our presence was calming. Worn smooth by repetition before numerous officials, his introductory litany of our professions and affiliations was reassuring, factual, and brisk. I'm a writer, he's a doctor, and he's a lawyer. We're from the United States and we represent five scientific and medical institutions, the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Public Health Association, the Insti- tute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Science, and the American College of Physicians. These became my first one hundred words of Spanish. His next sentence was too long to remember, something like: We have come to Uruguay be- * Assistant Professor and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organizations, Harvard Law School. A.B. 1976, Brown University; M.A.L.D. 1979, Ph.D. 1984, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; J.D. 1980, Harvard. I would like to thank everyone mentioned in this story, partic- ularly Patrick Breslin and Richard Goldstein. Thanks also to Renato Rosaldo for the inspiration to write this piece, and to Jerry Frug, who finally convinced me that publishing is not the enemy of scholarship. The names of prisoners have been changed. 1377

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