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...Kevin Lewis O’Neill Amid unprecedented rates of deportation as well as an ever-growing gang problem, bilingual call centers have become viable spaces of control in postwar Guatemala. They provide deported ex–gang members with not only well-paying jobs but also a work environment structured...

... Guatemala. With this drastic increase has come a spike in the use of crack cocaine, as well as the proliferation of drug rehabilitation centers. Run by Pentecostal Christians, these centers warehouse users (against their will) in the name of liberation. Locked up, tied up, and told to shape up, these users...

... terminates in death and aims to destroy a community.4 Nowhere was this strategy adopted more ferociously than in Peru and Guatemala during the civil wars of the 1980s and 1990s by armies engaged in a scorched-earth policy against insurgency. In both...

..., political gain. For the past four years I have volunteered with CARA, a nonprofit organization that assists women and children held in detention at the family residential units in Texas and Pennsylvania. 2 These women seek asylum as victims of gang violence in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador...

... by the left itself. The New Left of the 1960s dismissed the “Old Left” because of its involvement with state projects, from the New Deal in the United States to the October Revolution in Guatemala (of 1944) and other post-War, left-liberal social democratic...

.... 1988 . Refugees of a hidden war: The aftermath of counterinsurgency in Guatemala. Albany:State University of New York Press. Menchu, Rigoberta, Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, and Ann Wright. 1984 . I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian woman in Guatemala . London: Verso. Ong, Aihwa. 1992 . Limits...

... for an American oil company in Guatemala. Mr. Díaz’s Christian testimony — his inspirational biography of salva- tion, success, and humility — is one of the quiet backstories of free trade in the Americas. The official narrative focuses...

... Guatemala], “Yo ya tengo hambre” o “Tráeme un fresco.” Carlos Ulises Se lo tenía que llevar hasta donde estaba él. En cambio ahora no. A él le Decena, Michele digo yo, “Mira, yo quiero iced tea.” “Si, ya te lo preparo,” y él se pone G. Shedlin, and hacerlo...

... of Indonesia and India, Russia and Guatemala. Each appeal foregrounds the role of the rational individual and his or her capacity to choose (or not to choose) a particular lifestyle. This foregrounding tends to transform matters of broad concern into a pragmatics of self-­control. Yet, given the will’s...

... and resident expert on things Latin American, did graduate work in medieval Romance languages before moving to Guatemala around 1973. Perhaps the more accomplished of the two translators, he regularly contributed material for Gay Sunshine—translations and what later became a volume titled In Praise of Boys...

... in the feasibility of transnational migration for women with dependent children. In terms of socioeconomic background, some of my respondents came from families that could be classified as urban working poor, but most were from rural areas in Mexico and Guatemala dependent on sub- sistence...

... and political affectivity. 48 What relevance does the persistence of death in life have to a feminist political praxis, to rights for rather than of the living? 44 To one’s accountability to Mexico’s and Guatemala’s missing and murdered women who either disappear or appear vividly as instances...

...? The collective endeavor that fuels The Counted database and the embrace of Maya numeracy that Diane Nelson points to in Guatemala suggest a wide range of possibilities for calculating loss and gain, for giving a proper, unsettling account of the here and now. This essay was written collaboratively as part...

... because of the imperial army destroying his house. CD & MG: The Empire Strikes Back was filmed in Guatemala, in the rain forest. AR: Really? That’s crazy. My work is more about trying to push the stories and the experiences of new immigrants into the center of celebrated narrative space...

...). 16. Angelina Snodgrass Godoy, in Popular Injustice: Violence, Community, and Law in Latin America (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), makes a parallel argument about Guatemala, a similar postwar site experiencing high crime rates. Jean and John Comaroff have discussed crime along...

...). 17. This is a phenomenon that stretches beyond Mexico. For a discussion that frames the Ciudad Juárez killings alongside similar patterns of violence in Argentina, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Peru, see Rosa-­Linda Fregoso and Cynthia Bejarano...

...: Discovering Guatemala’s National Police Records”; Florencia Mallon, “Modernizing the Mapuche: State and Anti-State Projects of Civilization”; Rodrigo Laguarda, “El vampiro de la colonia Roma: Lit- eratura e identidad gay en México...

... of an economy that generates endless preemptive conflict as the price for “security.” Jean Franco argues that rape, that most invisible of war crimes, has been deployed by the modernizing states of Peru and Guatemala...

... 6,472 orphans were granted visas, and 2001, when 18,699 orphan visas were issued. The bulk of the children came from countries in political and economic upheaval. Korea, China, Russia, and Guatemala topped the list. But the less familiar former Soviet republics and central and Eastern European...

.... But with the cold war, the colorful subalterns of the Good Neighbor policy were transformed into unreliable ideological subjects. From Jacobo Arbenz’s election and ouster in 1954 Guatemala, to the Cuban Revolution, to the invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965, and onward into the hard lines...