Spring in a broken mirror

The novelist Mario Benedetti describes in his novel some of the repercussions of political detention that cause human disasters. Here, families disintegrate, social institutions collapse, and entire structures change. He describes the effects of forced displacement fleeing from repression, liquidation, and detention, as oppressive regimes do not limit themselves to tightening on their opponents, but also commit the most heinous hostile acts against them, and do not hesitate to commit any crime, besieging their vital areas, restricting the movements of those around them, assassinating them, or taking them hostage. They do not only resort to abuse and violence, but often attempt to uproot anyone connected to those opponents, destroy and burn their homes, in a diligent effort to erase any trace pointing to them, and punish them through their families and wealth.