Silences in testimonio plays a huge role in understanding people’s memoirs and voices in history. They have been misrepresented by those in control throughout history in order to paint a cleaner image for the ones doing the silencing, leaving the silenced to live in scorn and fear. For instance, the Canadian residential school survivors have only recently come together to rewrite their misrepresented history and torture they endured at the hands of the Canadian government by sharing their stories and giving voice to their silenced lives. Misrepresentation holds itself over many a people who have too often been spoken over and labeled as “others” to keep the public eye away from the truth. I found that Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Massacre is a good example of this because he uses the eight journalist’s murders to further the worlds barbaric view of the Uchuraccay peoples of the Andes in Peru. He portrays these people as savage to please the public, American, eye which ties in to week 9’s readings on Disney’s patronizing portrayal of Latinos, mainly from Mexico, continuing the frustratingly present idea that civil society is white society. His article for the New York Times reinforces the Northern stereotypes about “otherness,” looking past any incentive the villagers could have had and only focusing on what everyone else sees as a tragedy. That is, however, the way in this society; to look past something you don’t want to see and to turn a blind eye on differing traditions as a way of explaining the forced silences and painful actions that, unfortunately, accompany being titled the majority.