Download or read book The Guatemala Reader written by Greg Grandin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Guatemalan Politics written by Robert H. Trudeau and published by Lynne Rienner Pub. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guatemala, though unique in many respects, has been part of the recent movement toward consitutional regimes and democracy in Latin America. By 1986, a constitution and an elected civilian government were in place; in 1990, a second round of elections culminated in the country's first transfer of the presidency from one elected civilian to another; and as of the end of 1992, many of the formal ingredients for a transition to democracy were in place.
Download or read book A Study in Government written by Kalman H. Silvert and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Penetration of the Political Institutions of Guatemala by the International Communist Movement written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shattered Hope written by James A Goldston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Blood of Guatemala written by Greg Grandin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-15 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA study of the political and cultural formation of one of Guatemala's indigenous communities that explores the nationalization of ethnicity, the preservation of Mayan identity, and the formation of a brutally repressive state./div
Download or read book Report On Guatemala written by The Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The findings of the Study Group on United States-Guatemalan Relations,organized under the auspices of the Central American and Caribbean Program(CACP) at the School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns HopkinsUniversity, focus on the nature of Guatemalan politics, possibilities for democratization,and the options available to U.S. policymakers during the regime ofGeneral Rios Montt. Also included in this book are two papers, commissioned by the CACP, that present starkly contrasting views of Guatemala in order to provide a background for the study group's discussions. As anticipated by study group members, the Rios Montt regime fell from power after the initial writing of this report, but their findings nevertheless provide an excellent overview of the debate on U.S. policy toward Guatemala.
Download or read book Doing Business with the Dictators written by Paul J. Dosal and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1995 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United Fruit Company (UFCO) developed an unprecedented relationship with Guatemala. By 1944, UFCO owned 566,000 acres, employed 20,000 people, and operated 96 per cent of Guatemala's 719 miles of railroad.
Download or read book Guatemala s Political Puzzle written by Georges A. Fauriol and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1990-09-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guatemala is one of the least studied and most volatile nations in Central America. Fauriol and Loser chronicle Guatemala's modern political development as a prelude to an analysis of the nation's current environment. This is not a conventional history, but a social, political, and economic cross-section based on the latest secondary information and research available, supplemented by a firsthand set of observations. The authors proceed from three major premises: (1) the armed forces, far from being the cause of instability, have provided the only real models of governance; (2) far from suffering from a banana republic inferiority complex, the culture has a rich nationalist heritage, bordering on outright chauvinism; and (3) the political experiences of the nation have been adjudicated in the main by the armed forces. The authors note that Guatemala's break with its authoritarian past started in 1985. How this transfer of power has occurred, who the new rulers are, and what new political civilian forces have been set in motion, become the fulcrum for this study. The political experience of Guatemala is taken seriously and reviewed in detail. The role of foreign power is neither ignored nor minimized, but essentially this is a study of national elites. The volume covers areas ranging from human rights abuses by past administrations to current problems forced on the regime by a never-ending battle against terrorism and insurgency. It concludes with a fine bibliographical essay and an excellent set of reference tools for the specialist. In short, whether a person seeks a quick overview, or the scholar aims for precise data and theory, this is the state of the art book on Guatemala for the late 1980s going into the electoral period of the early 1990s.
Download or read book Dealing with Peace written by Simon Granovsky-Larsen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dealing with Peace presents the struggles of the Guatemalan campesino (peasant) social movement during the country’s post-conflict transition from 1996 to the present, focusing on efforts to obtain land and improve livelihoods within a shifting, yet consistently hostile, political-economic environment. With special focus on the relationship between the movement and the neoliberal state, Simon Granovsky-Larsen asks whether the acceptance of neoliberal resources – in this case, support for land access in Guatemala provided by the World Bank-funded Fondo de Tierras – reduces the potential for social movements to continue to work for transformative change. Positioned in contrast to studies warning that social movements cannot maintain their original vision after accepting such support, this book argues that organizations within the Guatemalan campesino movement have engaged strategically with neoliberalism, utilizing available resources to advance visions of social change. Using a wealth of primary data collected over more than a year of fieldwork, it contributes significantly to the study of Guatemalan politics and advances understandings of the grounded operation of neoliberalism. Exploring both the dynamics of a national neoliberal transition and the ways in which these play out within civil society, Dealing with Peace reveals the long-term and often contradictory negotiation of political and economic transitions.
Download or read book The International Politics of Post Conflict Reconstruction in Guatemala written by N. Short and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the Guatemalan peace process, which was successful in providing a development program to modernize the economy and national infrastructure with the support of international organizations and negotiating parties, analyzing the extent to which peace processes offer opportunity for progressive social transformation.
Download or read book Adi s Ni o written by Deborah T. Levenson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death, Deborah T. Levenson examines transformations in the Guatemalan gangs called Maras from their emergence in the 1980s to the early 2000s. A historical study, Adiós Niño describes how fragile spaces of friendship and exploration turned into rigid and violent ones in which youth, and especially young men, came to employ death as a natural way of living for the short period that they expected to survive. Levenson relates the stark changes in the Maras to global, national, and urban deterioration; transregional gangs that intersect with the drug trade; and the Guatemalan military's obliteration of radical popular movements and of social imaginaries of solidarity. Part of Guatemala City's reconfigured social, political, and cultural milieu, with their members often trapped in Guatemala's growing prison system, the gangs are used to justify remilitarization in Guatemala's contemporary postwar, post-peace era. Portraying the Maras as microcosms of broader tragedies, and pointing out the difficulties faced by those youth who seek to escape the gangs, Levenson poses important questions about the relationship between trauma, memory, and historical agency.
Download or read book Guatemalan Politics written by Robert H. Trudeau and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanding the discussion of the formal transition to democracy in Guatemala to focus on popular political participation between elections and on the public policy of recent governments, Trudeau concludes that persistent social injustice and concentrated power still in the hands of the military provide both an explosive mixture and a constant threat to the democratic movement nurtured by the popular sector.
Download or read book Shattered Hope written by Piero Gleijeses and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1992-08-17 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most thorough account yet available of a revolution that saw the first true agrarian reform in Central America, this book is also a penetrating analysis of the tragic destruction of that revolution. In no other Central American country was U.S. intervention so decisive and so ruinous, charges Piero Gleijeses. Yet he shows that the intervention can be blamed on no single "convenient villain." "Extensively researched and written with conviction and passion, this study analyzes the history and downfall of what seems in retrospect to have been Guatemala's best government, the short-lived regime of Jacobo Arbenz, overthrown in 1954, by a CIA-orchestrated coup."--Foreign Affairs "Piero Gleijeses offers a historical road map that may serve as a guide for future generations. . . . [Readers] will come away with an understanding of the foundation of a great historical tragedy."--Saul Landau, The Progressive "[Gleijeses's] academic rigor does not prevent him from creating an accessible, lucid, almost journalistic account of an episode whose tragic consequences still reverberate."--Paul Kantz, Commonweal
Download or read book Dependency And Intervention written by José M. Aybar de Soto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the interlocking relationship of government and multinational corporations (MNCs) that led to U.S. intervention in Guatemala in 1954. It explains the intervention in terms of the continuous penetration of the extended domain of the metropole.
Download or read book Managing the Counterrevolution written by Stephen M. Streeter and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eisenhower administration's intervention in Guatemala is one of the most closely studied covert operations in the history of the Cold War. Yet we know far more about the 1954 coup itself than its aftermath. This book uses the concept of "counterrevolution" to trace the Eisenhower administration's efforts to restore U.S. hegemony in a nation whose reform governments had antagonized U.S. economic interests and the local elite. Comparing the Guatemalan case to U.S.-sponsored counterrevolutions in Iran, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, and Chile reveals that Washington's efforts to roll back "communism" in Latin America and elsewhere during the Cold War represented in reality a short-term strategy to protect core American interests from the rising tide of Third World nationalism.
Download or read book Report On Guatemala written by Johns Hopkins University. Study Group on United States-Guatemalan Relations and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1985-04-03 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
