Oscar torres biography voces inocentes

For most kids, 12 is an awkward age, but for kids in El Salvador during the nation’s civil war, turning 12 was frightening.

At this age, boys were forcefully recruited into the government’s army or, with no other choice, were swept into the guerilla forces. Children were separated from their families and became victims of a war they did not start.

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Based on screenwriter Oscar Torres’s childhood in El Salvador, Innocent Voices, directed by Luis Mandoki, captures the spirit of these children in their last days of innocence.

From the vantage point of an 11—turning 12—year-old boy, the film portrays a community caught in the cross fires between government and guerilla combat.

Children cry themselves to sleep at night, hiding under their beds when gunshots fire through their homes. We witness military raids of a school where