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...Kirsten A. Weld This article examines an understudied aspect of Guatemala's Cold War counter-insurgency campaign: the concerted effort to destroy the seeds of oppositional thinking by criminalizing any and all forms of dissent, both during wartime and since. It explores the lasting effects...

...Heather Vrana Escalation of state violence against Guatemala City's University of San Carlos (USAC) in the late 1970s compelled students to rework the politics of death. In this essay, the commemorative texts and funeral photographs of three student leaders — Mario López Larrave, Oliverio Castañeda...

...Brooke Larson; Robert Wasserstrom 1983 Coerced Consumption in Colonial Bolivia and Guatemala Brooke Larson and Robert Wasserstrom I. INTRODUCTION Spanish colonialism in the Americas opened a chapter of European imperialism and overseas...

...Elizabeth Oglesby MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2007 Educating Citizens in Postwar Guatemala: Historical Memory, Genocide, and the Culture of Peace Elizabeth Oglesby On February 25, 1999, the Guatemalan Commission for Historical Clarifica- tion...

... in Guatemala City It was after the teachers’ strike in ’73, so it must have been under [President] Arana, right? And it was before Dia de la Madre, that’s for sure. I started getting cards, one every day, hand-embroidered. At first I thought they were...

...David Carey, Jr.; Walter E. Little In a nation that often silences them, Maya in Guatemala are increasingly expressing themselves through public murals. When teachers, artists, students, and other residents of San Juan Comalapa painted the history of their nation, town, and people, they portrayed...

...María Elena Martínez This essay analyzes problems related to the colonial archive and queer history through the case of Juana Aguilar, a suspected hermaphrodite who was tried for sodomy in early nineteenth-century Guatemala. These problems include the power dynamics involved in the archiving...

..., The C.I.A. in Guatemala. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982. 302 pp. $24.50. Burton I. Kaufman, Trade and Aid: Eisenhower's Foreign Economic Policy, 2953- 1961. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. 325 pp. $25.00. Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer, Bitter Fruit: The Untold...

...Greg Grandin Deborah Levenson-Estrada, Trade Unionists Against State Terror: Guatemala City, 1954–1985 . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. $45.00 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). David McCreery, Rural Guatemala, 1760–1940 . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. $47.50...

...’ Organization, Inc. 134 Walker | Teaching Truth Commissions 135 gence, development, and impact — more than theoretical issues regarding violence and memory. In other words, I wanted them to be able to discuss Argentina, Chile, Peru, Guatemala, and other...

..., no longer did they treat us like 'indws.' We're indigenous, yes, but we're not 'indios This essay looks at rural labor organizing in the province of San Marcos, Guatemala from 1944 to 1954, during one of Latin America's major twentieth century revolutions. The labor history of the period...

... Eugene J. McCarthy for president in 1968. He is the coeditor of The Vietnam War: A History in Documents (2002). Greg Grandin is a professor of history at New York University and is the author of The Blood of Guatemala (2000), which won the Latin American Studies Association Bryce Wood Award...

... people. Somewhat later, after departing from Yucatán in 1877 and on his way to Guatemala, Martí came into contact with other dimensions of the Mayan culture by traveling in a small fisher’s barge that made stopovers at different points of the penin...

... History Review stability according to liberal democratic norms. In countries ranging from South Africa to Chile and Guatemala, the foundation of this liberal constitutional order has also been viewed as essential to the implementation of market reforms accord- ing to hegemonic neoliberal economic...

... came from my time spent doing dissertation research in Guatemala, where Mayan activists currently are redefining national identity. Although there exist obvious points of similarity, the studies of indigenous culture and history north and south of the border make little reference to each...

.... The Second Continental Gathering of the 500 Years Campaign of Indigenous and Popular Resistance in XelajG, Guatemala in October 1991, was one of the many meetings and or- ganizations that sprang from the outrage felt by native Americans and others about the Quincentenary’s perversions...

.... She is author of Trade Unionists against Terror, Guatemala City, 1954–1984 (1994) and coeditor of Guatemala in Rebellion: Unfinished History (1983). She is finishing a book on ideas and social realities of urban youth in Guatemala from 1900 to 2000. She...

...Figure 2. Anton Flores-Maisonet walking from El Sauce to La Libertad in Huehuetenango, Guatemala. Photo courtesy of Bryan Babcock. ...

... of a party or individual directly or indirectly responsive" to communism in a free-world country. Elections in Italy, West Germany, Greece, France. To "develop underground resistance and guerilla operations." Vietnam, Laos, the Congo, Iran, Guatemala, Cuba...