Examines the political nature of agrarian development in Guatemala. This book argues that the Guatemalan leadership initiated major agrarian policy shifts without consideration for the demands of political groups, pursued their own economic ideologies and built political coalitions.

Field study of the impact of political violence on rural development and indigenous community life in Guatemala - reports on human rights violations, suppression of the rural area leadership and cooperative movement, aftermath of the seism, etc.; examines impacts on the agricultural sector and food production, health, education, religion and the family; looks at refugees, rural poverty, role of the armed forces and national liberation movements, role of USA and implications for development aid. Photographs, statistical tables.

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.

This book, Land, Power, and Poverty, explores the development of the rigid and unequal structures of rural Central American society and the role in the conflicts of five governments of the region Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.