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Book CHAMARIAPA

Download or read book CHAMARIAPA written by Carlos Antonio Canache Ramírez and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este documento esta dedicado a todos los niños y niñas violados y utilizados para fines económicos por la miseria humana, desde sacerdotes, padres, tíos, hermanos, primos y vecinos son por lo general los individuos de tales actos, solo visto en los seres humanos. Mi compromiso con la humanidad, es procurar el éxito a mediano plazo para alcanzar "el cero miseria", al menos en Venezuela, contagiando Latinoamérica, África y Asia donde las estadísticas producen mayor dolor.

Book Human Rights Violations in Latin America

Download or read book Human Rights Violations in Latin America written by Elizabeth Lira and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-07 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely contribution to the study of peace psychology in Latin America, this volume describes clinical, psychosocial, and community interventions with victims from Mexico to Chile from the 1970s onward. Chapters analyze how to conceptualize complex processes such as the appropriation of children and political repression, raising psychological, juridical, and political implications for the victims, their families, human rights organizations, and society. Also included are studies and analyses of political processes in countries currently undergoing crises such as Venezuela and Colombia and the challenges posed by the peace process from a political psychology perspective. All authors present the results of studies or clinical cases illustrating creative methodologies and practices in different contexts. This book provides the context for differences in the victims' damages and the treatment approaches and methodologies adopted in each case. The authors outline psychological perspectives grounded in ethical and professional choices based on recognizing people's dignity while seeking rehabilitation and reparations for victims, families, and communities. It paves the way for reparations and rehabilitation, and ultimately to the establishment of democracy and peace in this part of the world. Readers will benefit from understanding the relationship between mental health and human rights understanding ethical and professional dimensions a broadened knowledge of working with victims

Book Uncivil Wars

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  • Author : Sandra Messinger Cypess
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2012-08-01
  • ISBN : 0292742665
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Uncivil Wars written by Sandra Messinger Cypess and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro (1916–1998) and Octavio Paz (1914–1998) in dialogue with each other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary figures who wrote about many of the same experiences and contributed to the formation of Mexican national identity but were judged quite differently, primarily because of gender. While Paz’s privileged, prize-winning legacy has endured worldwide, Garro’s literary gifts garnered no international prizes and received less attention in Latin American literary circles. Restoring a dual perspective on these two dynamic writers and their world, Uncivil Wars chronicles a collective memory of wars that shaped Mexico, and in turn shaped Garro and Paz, from the Conquest period to the Mexican Revolution; the Spanish Civil War, which the couple witnessed while traveling abroad; and the student massacre at Tlatelolco Plaza in 1968, which brought about social and political changes and further tensions in the battle of the sexes. The cultural contexts of machismo and ethnicity provide an equally rich ground for Sandra Cypess’s exploration of the tandem between the writers’ personal lives and their literary production. Uncivil Wars illuminates the complexities of Mexican society as seen through a tense marriage of two talented, often oppositional writers. The result is an alternative interpretation of the myths and realities that have shaped Mexican identity, and its literary soul, well into the twenty-first century.

Book Cruel Modernity

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  • Author : Jean Franco
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2013-05-29
  • ISBN : 0822378906
  • Pages : 335 pages

Download or read book Cruel Modernity written by Jean Franco and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cruel Modernity, Jean Franco examines the conditions under which extreme cruelty became the instrument of armies, governments, rebels, and rogue groups in Latin America. She seeks to understand how extreme cruelty came to be practiced in many parts of the continent over the last eighty years and how its causes differ from the conditions that brought about the Holocaust, which is generally the atrocity against which the horror of others is measured. In Latin America, torturers and the perpetrators of atrocity were not only trained in cruelty but often provided their own rationales for engaging in it. When "draining the sea" to eliminate the support for rebel groups gave license to eliminate entire families, the rape, torture, and slaughter of women dramatized festering misogyny and long-standing racial discrimination accounted for high death tolls in Peru and Guatemala. In the drug wars, cruelty has become routine as tortured bodies serve as messages directed to rival gangs. Franco draws on human-rights documents, memoirs, testimonials, novels, and films, as well as photographs and art works, to explore not only cruel acts but the discriminatory thinking that made them possible, their long-term effects, the precariousness of memory, and the pathos of survival.

Book Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit

Download or read book Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit written by Virginia Garrard-Burnett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Waging a counterinsurgency war and justified by claims of 'an agreement between Guatemala and God,' Guatemala's Evangelical Protestant military dictator General Ríos Montt incited a Mayan holocaust: over just 17 months, some 86,000 mostly Mayan civilians were murdered. Virginia Garrard-Burnett dives into the horrifying, bewildering murk of this episode, the Western hemisphere's worst twentieth-century human rights atrocity. She has delivered the most lucid historical account and analysis we yet possess of what happened and how, of the cultural complexities, personalities, and local and international politics that made this tragedy. Garrard-Burnett asks the hard questions and never flinches from the least comforting answers. Beautifully, movingly, and clearly written and argued, this is a necessary and indispensable book." -- Francisco Goldman, author of The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? "Virginia Garrard-Burnett's Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit is impressively researched and argued, providing the first full examination of the religious dimensions of la violencia - a period of extreme political repression that overwhelmed Guatemala in the 1980s. Garrard-Burnett excavates the myriad ways Christian evangelical imagery and ideals saturated political and ethical discourse that scholars usually treat as secular. This book is one of the finest contributions to our understanding of the violence of the late Cold War period, not just in Guatemala but throughout Latin America." --Greg Grandin, Professor of History, New York University Drawing on newly-available primary sources including guerrilla documents, evangelical pamphlets, speech transcripts, and declassified US government records, Virginia Garrard-Burnett provides aa fine-grained picture of what happened during the rule of Guatelaman president-by-coup Efraín Ríos Montt. She suggests that three decades of war engendered an ideology of violence that cut not only vertically, but also horizontally, across class, cultures, communities, religions, and even families. The book examines the causality and effects of the ideology of violence, but it also explores the long durée of Guatemalan history between 1954 and the late 1970s that made such an ideology possible. More significantly, she contends that self-interest, willful ignorance, and distraction permitted the human rights tragedies within Guatemala to take place without challenge from the outside world.

Book Paradise in Ashes

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  • Author : Beatriz Manz
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2004-03-15
  • ISBN : 0520939328
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Paradise in Ashes written by Beatriz Manz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-03-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paradise in Ashes is a deeply engaged and moving account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. In this compelling book, Beatriz Manz—an anthropologist who spent over two decades studying the Mayan highlands and remote rain forests of Guatemala—tells the story of the village of Santa María Tzejá, near the border with Mexico. Manz writes eloquently about Guatemala's tortured history and shows how the story of this village—its birth, destruction, and rebirth—embodies the forces and conflicts that define the country today. Drawing on interviews with peasants, community leaders, guerrillas, and paramilitary forces, Manz creates a richly detailed political portrait of Santa María Tzejá, where highland Maya peasants seeking land settled in the 1970s. Manz describes these villagers' plight as their isolated, lush, but deceptive paradise became one of the centers of the war convulsing the entire country. After their village was viciously sacked in 1982, desperate survivors fled into the surrounding rain forest and eventually to Mexico, and some even further, to the United States, while others stayed behind and fell into the military's hands. With great insight and compassion, Manz follows their flight and eventual return to Santa María Tzejá, where they sought to rebuild their village and their lives.

Book Silence in the Novels of Carmen Mart  n Gaite

Download or read book Silence in the Novels of Carmen Mart n Gaite written by Adrián M. García and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how silences in Carmen Martín Gaite's novels affect narrative communication and the reader. Focusing on Entre visillos (1957), El cuarto de atrás (1978), and Nubosidad variable (1992), this study shows how silences inhere in Martín Gaite's narrative style, especially in the distinctive ways that her novels create interlocution and communicate feminist messages. It also probes how silences in the author's narrative relate to historical and social conditions in Spain and to various literary periods and genres. «Silence» as a literary term can be ambiguous because critics give it many different meanings and often without specifying types of silences. Accordingly, the book typologizes narrative silences and their roles in narrative communication. This study reveals that in Martín Gaite's novels, women's silences become over time more a means for creative expression and personal growth than a result of oppression.

Book Ch orti  Maya Survival in Eastern Guatemala

Download or read book Ch orti Maya Survival in Eastern Guatemala written by Brent E. Metz and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars and Guatemalans have characterized eastern Guatemala as "Ladino" or non-Indian. The Ch'orti' do not exhibit the obvious indigenous markers found among the Mayas of western Guatemala, Chiapas, and the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. Few still speak Ch'orti', most no longer wear distinctive dress, and most community organizations have long been abandoned. During the colonial period, the Ch'orti' region was adjacent to relatively vibrant economic regions of Central America that included major trade routes, mines, and dye plantations. In the twentieth century Ch'orti's directly experienced U.S.-backed dictatorships, a 36-year civil war from start to finish, and Christian evangelization campaigns, all while their population has increased exponentially. These have had tremendous impacts on Ch'orti' identities and cultures. From 1991 to 1993, Brent Metz lived in three Ch'orti' Maya-speaking communities, learning the language, conducting household surveys, and interviewing informants. He found Ch'orti's to be ashamed of their indigeneity, and he was fortunate to be present and involved when many Ch'orti's joined the Maya Movement. He has continued to expand his ethnographic research of the Ch'orti' annually ever since and has witnessed how Ch'orti's are reformulating their history and identity.

Book Legacies of Violence in Contemporary Spain

Download or read book Legacies of Violence in Contemporary Spain written by Ofelia Ferrán and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of the multiple legacies of Francoist violence in contemporary Spain, with a special focus on the exhumations of mass graves from the Civil War and post-war era. The various contributions frame their study within a broader reflection on the nature, function and legacies of state-sanctioned violence in its many forms. Offering perspectives from fields as varied as history, political science, literary and cultural studies, forensic and cultural anthropology, international human rights law, sociology, and art, this volume explores the multifaceted nature of a society’s reckoning with past violence. It speaks not only to those interested in contemporary Spain and Western Europe, but also to those studying issues of transitional and post-transitional justice in other national and regional contexts.

Book Adi  s Ni  o

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  • Author : Deborah T. Levenson
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2013-04-09
  • ISBN : 0822353156
  • Pages : 196 pages

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.

Book Abuse in the Latin American Church

Download or read book Abuse in the Latin American Church written by Véronique Lecaros and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the crisis of sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America, the region of the world with the highest percentage of Catholics. Bringing together research from across the continent, it demonstrates that abuse within the Church is indeed a global phenomenon, though abuses have taken different forms according to varying sociocultural contexts. With attention to abuses committed against children, women and vulnerable adults – by both men and women – within the settings of parishes, new religious movements and international religious organizations, it also raises questions of justice, asking how to assess the suffering of victims, how to deal with abusers and how to prevent abuses. It will therefore be of interest to scholars of religious studies, sociology, Latin American studies, criminology, theology, and religious leaders with interests in the abuses and scandals that have been revealed in the worldwide Church.

Book Cupey

Download or read book Cupey written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Volume 18  Tome VI  Kierkegaard Secondary Literature

Download or read book Volume 18 Tome VI Kierkegaard Secondary Literature written by Jon Stewart and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing book reviews of some of the leading monographic studies in the Kierkegaard secondary literature, this volume aims to assist the community of scholars in becoming familiar with the works that they have not read for themselves, thus offering them a comprehensive survey of works that have played a more or less significant role in the research. In addition it tries to make accessible many works in the Kierkegaard secondary literature that are written in different languages. The six tomes of the present volume present reviews of works written in Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, and Swedish.

Book Bella Sin Besti

Download or read book Bella Sin Besti written by Luz María Santiago Ponce and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuando enfrentamos el duelo de la separación, todos deseamos poder resolverlo, mujeres y hombres van buscando regresar a la vida. Estoy convencida de que, con trabajo amoroso: "... un día, la herida cerrará, dejará una cicatriz que irá tomando fuerza y finalmente, dejará de doler, podrá pasar el dedo sobre la herida y verá que ya no duele; podrá hablar del tema sin desgarrarse, con certezas. Es cuando esta cicatriz deja de doler cuando podrá dar paso al perdón. Entonces el duelo se habrá resuelto". Escrito desde la mujer y para la mujer, la trasciende y alcanza al hombre.

Book Al Otro Lado de La Vida

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  • Author : Ma Del Pilar De Los Reyes Sánchez
  • Publisher : Palibrio
  • Release : 2012-05
  • ISBN : 1463317808
  • Pages : 467 pages

Download or read book Al Otro Lado de La Vida written by Ma Del Pilar De Los Reyes Sánchez and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Al otro lado de la vida", es una emocionante historia de amor, atrapada en el escalofriante escenario de un hogar mancillado por la crueldad y la cobardía de un hombre que maltrata a su esposa. Ella se mueve al límite, y oscila entre la razón y la sinrazón, la cordura y la locura, en un dramático esfuerzo por torcer las líneas del destino. De la mano de sus personajes, el lector podrá vivir aventuras inolvidables, nutridas de una vibrante intriga y pasión, con lo que consigue transmitir al lector todo su realismo. En ella se muestran además escenarios muy distintos al del hogar, destacando entre ellos aventuras en África y en París, entre otros.

Book The Conquest of the Desert

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  • Author : Carolyne R. Larson
  • Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
  • Release : 2020-11-20
  • ISBN : 0826362087
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book The Conquest of the Desert written by Carolyne R. Larson and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than one hundred years, the Conquest of the Desert (1878–1885) has marked Argentina’s historical passage between eras, standing at the gateway to the nation’s “Golden Age” of progress, modernity, and—most contentiously—national whiteness and the “invisibilization” of Indigenous peoples. This traditional narrative has deeply influenced the ways in which many Argentines understand their nation’s history, its laws and policies, and its cultural heritage. As such, the Conquest has shaped debates about the role of Indigenous peoples within Argentina in the past and present. The Conquest of the Desert brings together scholars from across disciplines to offer an interdisciplinary examination of the Conquest and its legacies. This collection explores issues of settler colonialism, Indigenous-state relations, genocide, borderlands, and Indigenous cultures and land rights through essays that reexamine one of Argentina’s most important historical periods.

Book Los poderes de lo p  blico

Download or read book Los poderes de lo p blico written by Marianne Braig and published by Iberoamericana Editorial. This book was released on 2009 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El libro propone pensar el espacio y la esferas públicos como categorías transdisciplinarias para comprender las transformaciones profundas acaecidas en la región en las sociedades postautoritarias de América Latina.