Gladis Sibrian was a nun who fled El Salvador during its bloody civil war. At the time of her interview with Smith, she works as a director and speaks on behalf of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, USA, a leftist Salvadoran political party and one of the main participants in the country’s civil war. In her monologue, Sibrian speaks about the Los Angeles riots, revolution, and the impossibility of social change when people don’t believe they have power.
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Gladis Sibrian Character Timeline in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
The timeline below shows where the character Gladis Sibrian appears in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
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Smith interviews Gladis Sibrian, director of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, USA. Siberian is a former nun from...
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Sibrian sees the LA riots as a “social explosion,” which is less “organized, planned” than a...
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