Guatemala, News in Brief
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 27,14 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Guatemala
ISBN :
Shattered Hope
Author : James A Goldston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 36,30 MB
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000311406
Book Description
This book seeks to evaluate the political transformation that has been claimed for Guatemala since 1986 in light of its effects upon workers, considering the future evolution of Guatemala's experiment in controlled democracy.
The Guatemala Reader
Author : Greg Grandin
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 49,43 MB
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0822351072
Book Description
DIVAn interdisciplinary anthology on the largest, most populous nation in Central America, covering Guatemalan history, culture, literature and politics and containing many primary sources not previously published in English./div
Guatemalan Journey
Author : Stephen Connely Benz
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 12,59 MB
Release : 2010-05-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0292782993
Book Description
Guatemala draws some half million tourists each year, whose brief visits to the ruins of ancient Maya cities and contemporary highland Maya villages may give them only a partial and folkloric understanding of Guatemalan society. In this vividly written travel narrative, Stephen Connely Benz explores the Guatemala that casual travelers miss, using his encounters with ordinary Guatemalans at the mall, on the streets, at soccer games, and even at the funeral of massacre victims to illuminate the social reality of Guatemala today. The book opens with an extended section on the capital, Guatemala City, and then moves out to the more remote parts of the country where the Guatemalan Indians predominate. Benz offers us a series of intelligent and sometimes humorous perspectives on Guatemala's political history and the role of the military, the country's environmental degradation, the influence of foreign missionaries, and especially the impact of the United States on Guatemala, from governmental programs to fast food franchises.
Homicidal Ecologies
Author : Deborah J. Yashar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 48,22 MB
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1107178479
Book Description
Latin America has among the world's highest homicide rates. The author analyzes the illicit organizations, complicit and weak states, and territorial competition that generate today's violent homicidal ecologies.
Buried Secrets
Author : Victoria Sanford
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 32,70 MB
Release : 2003-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781403960238
Book Description
Between the late 1970s and the late-1980s, Guatemala was torn by mass terror and extreme violence in a genocidal campaign against the Maya, which becameknown as "La Violencia." More than 600 massacres occurred, one and a half million people were displaced, and more than 200,000 civilians were murdered, most of them Maya. Buried Secrets brings these chilling statistics to life as it chronicles the journey of Maya survivors seeking truth, justice, and community healing, and demonstrates that the Guatemalan army carried out a systematic and intentional genocide against the Maya. The book is based on exhaustive research, including more than 400 testimonies from massacre survivors, interviews with members of the forensic team, human rights leaders, high-ranking military officers, guerrilla combatants, and government officials. Buried Secrets traces truth-telling and political change from isolated Maya villages to national political events, and provides a unique look into the experiences of Maya survivors as they struggle to rebuild their communities and lives.
The Rough Guide to Guatemala
Author : Iain Stewart
Publisher : Rough Guides
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 27,37 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781858288482
Book Description
Detailed wilderness treks, volcano climbs, and tours of the Mayan ruins are profiled in this lively guide of Guatemala. 38 maps. 24-page full-color section.
Finding Fernanda
Author : Erin Siegal
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,38 MB
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0807001856
Book Description
The dramatic story of how an American housewife discovered that the Guatemalan child she was about to adopt had been stolen from her birth mother Over the last decade, nearly 200,000 children have been adopted into the United States, 25,000 of whom came from Guatemala. Finding Fernanda, a dramatic true story paired with investigative reporting, tells the side-by-side tales of an American woman who adopted a two-year-old girl from Guatemala and the birth mother whose two children were stolen from her. Each woman gradually comes to realize her role in what was one of Guatemala’s most profitable black-market industries: the buying and selling of children for international adoption. Finding Fernanda is an overdue, unprecedented look at adoption corruption—and a poignant, riveting human story about the power of hope, faith, and determination.
Prisons in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century
Author : Jonathan D. Rosen
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 21,23 MB
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0739191365
Book Description
This volume on penitentiary systems in the Americas offers a long-overdue look at the prisons that exist at the forefront of the ongoing struggle against drugs and violence throughout North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean. From Haiti to Bolivia, the authors examine the conditions in these systems, and allow several common themes to emerge, including the alarming prevalence of lengthy pre-trial detention and the often abysmal living conditions in these institutions. Taken together, this comprises the first comparative overview of the use and abuse of prisons in the Americas.
Silence on the Mountain
Author : Daniel Wilkinson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 39,39 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822333685
Book Description
Written by a young human rights worker, "Silence on the Mountain" is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's 36-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people.
