Guatemala's Political Puzzle
Title | Guatemala's Political Puzzle PDF eBook |
Author | Georges A. Fauriol |
Publisher | Transaction Publishers |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 1990-09-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781412824873 |
Guatemala is one of the least studied and most volatile nations in Central America. Fauriol and Loser chronicle Guatemala's modern political development as a prelude to an analysis of the nation's current environment. This is not a conventional history, but a social, political, and economic cross-section based on the latest secondary information and research available, supplemented by a firsthand set of observations. The authors proceed from three major premises: (1) the armed forces, far from being the cause of instability, have provided the only real models of governance; (2) far from suffering from a banana republic inferiority complex, the culture has a rich nationalist heritage, bordering on outright chauvinism; and (3) the political experiences of the nation have been adjudicated in the main by the armed forces. The authors note that Guatemala's break with its authoritarian past started in 1985. How this transfer of power has occurred, who the new rulers are, and what new political civilian forces have been set in motion, become the fulcrum for this study. The political experience of Guatemala is taken seriously and reviewed in detail. The role of foreign power is neither ignored nor minimized, but essentially this is a study of national elites. The volume covers areas ranging from human rights abuses by past administrations to current problems forced on the regime by a never-ending battle against terrorism and insurgency. It concludes with a fine bibliographical essay and an excellent set of reference tools for the specialist. In short, whether a person seeks a quick overview, or the scholar aims for precise data and theory, this is the state of the art book on Guatemala for the late 1980s going into the electoral period of the early 1990s.
Guatemala's Political Puzzle
Title | Guatemala's Political Puzzle PDF eBook |
Author | Georges A. Fauriol |
Publisher | |
Pages | 127 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Guatemala |
ISBN |
Witnesses to Political Violence in Guatemala
Title | Witnesses to Political Violence in Guatemala PDF eBook |
Author | Shelton H. Davis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Civil rights |
ISBN |
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.
Penetration of the Political Institutions of Guatemala by the International Communist Movement
Title | Penetration of the Political Institutions of Guatemala by the International Communist Movement PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Department of State |
Publisher | |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1954 |
Genre | Communism |
ISBN |
Of Centaurs And Doves
Title | Of Centaurs And Doves PDF eBook |
Author | Susanne Jonas |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2018-02-06 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0429967144 |
"In a century of horrors, Guatemala from 1954 to the present has been a bloody scene of some of the worst horrors—and the United States has been deeply involved. Drawing upon 30 years of experience in Central America, hundreds of interviews, and analyses of the vast documentary materials, Susanne Jonas masterfully explains not only how the Guatemalan tragedies, the U.S. involvement, and the stumbling 1990s peace process developed. She also raises fundamental questions about the badly misunderstood and much over-hyped 'democratic transition' supposedly occurring in Guatemala and elsewhere in the region." —Walter LaFeber Cornell University, author of Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America
Guatemala
Title | Guatemala PDF eBook |
Author | Maureen Taft-Morales |
Publisher | |
Pages | 19 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Guatemala |
ISBN |
Guatemala
Title | Guatemala PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Calvert |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2019-03-04 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0429725353 |
Guatemala has long been a field for struggle between other powers, and today, racked by civil war, it avoids the full glare of international attention only because most of the Central American region is beset by similar problems. Despite a continued belief in the reconstitution of a unified Central American state arid a long-running claim to Belize, Guatemala has played a passive rather than an active role in international politics. The influence of international economic interests explains to a large degree why Guatemala has not been more active in the international arena. In this book, Professor Calvert examines Guatemala's history and the principal aspects of the country's faction-tom society and seeks to explain the problems—and their consistently violent manifestations—that have attended the course of the country's social, economic, and political development.