Guatemala
Unnatural Disaster
Guatemala is a society of fear. Whilst events in Chile have outraged international opinion, the widespread political violence in Guatemala has gone unnoticed. Over the past ten years there have been an estimated 20,000 political killings, a death toll as high as that inflicted by the savage earthquake which struck the country in 1976. Those who protest against the country's unjust social and economic system and take a stand against the government and land-oqning elite simply 'disappear' or their bodies are found horribly mutilated, the victims of right-wing death squads whose activities are officially condoned.
Guatemala: Unnatural Disaster looks behind the immediate effects of the earthquake to the nature of the sociey which was struck by it. It documents the violations of human rights and analyses the grossly inegalitarian structures of Guatemalan society which have given rise to such violence, dealing with the repression of the trade union and peasant movements. The report also critically examines current initiatives to link foreign aid with human rights issues and looks at the questions to be faced if international pressure is to have any effect on one of the most repressive countries in contemporary Latin America.
Published: 1978
Pages: 132
eBook: 9781909013704
Paperback: 9780906156018
Guatemala: Unnatural Disaster looks behind the immediate effects of the earthquake to the nature of the sociey which was struck by it. It documents the violations of human rights and analyses the grossly inegalitarian structures of Guatemalan society which have given rise to such violence, dealing with the repression of the trade union and peasant movements. The report also critically examines current initiatives to link foreign aid with human rights issues and looks at the questions to be faced if international pressure is to have any effect on one of the most repressive countries in contemporary Latin America.
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A Taste of History
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The Saddest Day in Cantel
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I Feel Enraged
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An Indian Dawn
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Tecún Umán and the Conquest Dance
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Mayanization and Everyday Life
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Lemus, Leslie
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All Sorts and Colors
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The Authorized Indian
Hale, Charles R.
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Death by Deportation
Campbell, Greg
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Spiritual Warfare
Caballeros, Harold
2011
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What Is Reconciliation?
Mack, Helen
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Arbitrary Power and Sexual Violence
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Filóchofo
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Guatemala and Vietnam
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Military Dream
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2011
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Long Live the Students!
Sandoval, Miguel Angel
Ramírez, María del Rosario
2011
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Dow, Leslie M.
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Gendered Nobility
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2011
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Visits to Chacash
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The San Francisco Massacre, July 1982
Falla, Ricardo
2011
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We Rose Up
Tuyuc, Juan
Colom, Yolanda
2011
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“La Chalana,”
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Calvo, Alfredo Valle
Vela, David
Barcárcel, José Luis
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Prayer for a Migrant
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Johnston, Francis E.
Low, Setha M.
de Baessa, Yetilu
MacVean, Robert B.
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Arevalistato Counterrevolutionary
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Inverting Clausewitz
2011
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Fugitive Indians
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2011
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Pollo Campero Takes Wing
2011
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Life on the Edge
Levenson, Deborah T.
2011
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Accustomed to Be Obedient
Adams, Richard N.
2011
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A Clandestine Life
Grandin, Greg
2011
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Campesinosin Search of a Different Future
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2011
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Marimba
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2011
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Travels Amongst Indians
Brine, Lindesay
2011
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Gawronski, Vincent T.
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“If That Is Communism, Then They Are Communists”
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Full Moon
Masaya, Jessica
2011
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The Untouchable Narco-State
Smyth, Frank
2011
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Right to Return
Hernández, María García
Maquín, Mama
2011
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Memory of an Angel
Hernández-Salazar, Daniel
2011
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Sabotage for Liberty
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For the Eyes of Our King
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Our History Is a Living History
Menchú, Rigoberta
2011
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Indigenismoand “The Generation of the 1920s,”
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Declaration of Iximché
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A New Guatemala
Arévalo, Juan José
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Green, Linda Buckley
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Magical Modernism
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The Sweetest Songs Remain to be Sung
Arellano, Huberto Alvarado
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Great Was the Stench of the Dead
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The Ladino
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Solidarity Is a Characteristic of the Maya People
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God’s Pristine Sound
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Whose Heaven, Whose Earth?
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2011
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Anthropology Discovers the Maya
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2011
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Breaking the Maya Code
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2011
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Promised the Earth
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2011
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A Creole Landscape
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2011
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Transnationalism and Maya Dress
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2011
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Art and the Postwar Generation
Acevedo, Anabella
2011
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Second Thoughts
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Time to Get Up
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2011
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Communique
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2011
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The Vast, Breathing Rainforest Is Changing
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2011
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Guatemala since 1930
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1990
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Maya Pyramids
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2011
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We Cannot Confirm nor Deny
2011
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Assistance and Control
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2011
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Thunder in the City
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2011
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Disagreement
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2011
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Enemies of Christ
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2011
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Guatemala Facing the Lens
2011
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An Indian King on the Eve of Independence
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2011
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Meier, Astrid
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The New Men of Maize
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2011
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Land, Labor, and Community
McCreery, David
2011
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Execution of a Chicken
Arce, Manuel José
2011
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¿Vos sos de Guatemala?
2011
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Most Precious Fruit of the Revolution
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Invading Guatemala
2011
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Colonial Cartographies
2011
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The Pan-Maya Movement
Cuxil, Demetrio Cojtí
2011
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A Good Place to Commit Murder
Alston, Philip
2011
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Maybe, Just Maybe
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2011
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A Modern Faith
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2011
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The Oil Lamp
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2011
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Pablo Neruda in Guatemala
Neruda, Pablo
2011
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A Mexican Bolshevik in Central America
2011
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A Plan for Assassination
2011
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Architecture of Remittances
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Guerrilla Armies of the Poor
2011
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El señor presidente
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2011
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PETTIFORD, LLOYD
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The New Face of Labor and Capital
Mattson, Corey
Ayer, Marie
2011
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Blood in Our Throats
Konefal, Betsy
2011
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Keep On Keeping On
2011
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Hymn to the Sun
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2011
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I Walk Backwards
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2011
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We are Officers of the Guatemalan Army
2011
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Chocolate, Sex and Disorderly Women
Few, Martha
2011
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Apocalypto
Waterfield, Bruno
2011
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Maya of Morganton
Fink, Leon
2011
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Exodus
Montejo, Victor
2011
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Operation PBSUCCESS
Cullather, Nick
2011
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Good Government
Marroquín, Bishop Francisco
2011
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The Kí-Ché Language
Chávez, Adrián Inés
2011
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The Atrocity Files
Doyle, Kate
2011
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Conquest of the Tropics
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2011
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