Author: Stephen Connely Benz
Publisher: University of Texas Pre
Keywords: journey, guatemalan
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1996-05-11
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0292708408
ISBN-13: 9780292708402

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 C

Author: Victor Perera
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: tragedy, guatemalan, conquest, unfinished
Number of Pages: 297
Published: 1995-11-14
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0520203496
ISBN-13: 9780520203495

Spanning the years of civil war in Guatemala, Unfinished Conquest portrays an embattled country facing the third cycle of a conquest that began when the conquistadors arrived in the sixteenth century. As personal narrative weaves with reportage and oral testimony, we meet the victims, champions, and villains of a society torn apart by violence and injustice.

Author: John Wesley Shillington
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Keywords: 1990s, theater, guatemalan, atrocity, grappling
Number of Pages: 207
Published: 2002-01
List price: $38.50
ISBN-10: 0838639305
ISBN-13: 9780838639306

Guatemalan middle-class theater in the 1990s sought a balance between acknowledging the atrocities of the civil war and fostering a national reconciliation. The foucs of this study is twofold: First, it identifies how the civil war as well as the change to the civilian government in1986 has affected the form and content of the plays written in the 1990s: second, it examines the work of Guatemalan playwrights who have largely been ignored in Latin American theater studies.

Author: James Loucky
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: american, lives, new, roots, diaspora, guatemalan, maya
Number of Pages: 263
Published: 2000-11-15
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1566397952
ISBN-13: 9781566397957

Maya people have lived for thousands of years in the mountains and forests of what is now Guatemala, but they lost control of their land and became serfs and refugees when the Spanish conquered them in the sixteenth century. Under both the Spanish and the Guatemalan non-Indian elites, they suffered enforced poverty and thereby served as a resident source of cheap labor for non-Maya projects, particularly agricultural production. Following the CIA-induced coup that toppled Guatemala’s elected government in 1954, their misery was exacerbated by government accommodation to United StatesR

Authors:Roy Bahl, George Martinez-vazquez, Sally Wallace,
Publisher: Westview Press
Keywords: reform, tax, guatemalan
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1998-10-06
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0813336546
ISBN-13: 9780813336541

Responding to a deepening economic crisis, serious structural problems with the tax system, a long and deep-seated opposition to even modest tax increases, and a weak tax administration, the Guatemalan government introduced a comprehensive tax reform program in 1992. In this concise volume, experts present analysis that supported the reform program and evaluate the first round of revenue and tax-burden effects.

Authors:Victor Montejo,  Victor Perera,
Publisher: Curbstone Pre
Keywords: village, guatemalan, death, testimony
Number of Pages: 113
Published: 1995-07-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0915306654
ISBN-13: 9780915306657

eyewitness account of army attack, tr V Perera