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    An antiquated system that refuses to change
    2018 Febrero Guatemala
    Before the end of 2017, Guatemala’s general public hadn’t yet clearly identified the roles of many of the actors in their country’s profound crisis,...

    From the offensive against CICIG to Pandora’s Box
    2017 Diciembre Guatemala
    In her book Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala (Duke University Press, 014), Kirsten Weld, Harvard University historian of modern...

    Democracy in the streets
    2017 Octubre Guatemala
    The crowd is brandishing placards against Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales. In one showing his photograph they’ve added a red button to his nose...

    It would seem that “the party’s over”
    2017 Junio Guatemala
    Over the past year, the US power moves in Guatemala and the rest of what is called Central America’s Northern Triangle have been ongoing. Specifically...

    The ghost of Maya justice is haunting the country
    2017 Abril Guatemala
    The ghost of Maya justice is haunting Guatemala. Self-righteous talk show guests, guardian angels of positive law, omnipresent pens in opinion pages,...

    The traditional elites in a struggle with the emerging elites
    2015 Abril Guatemala
    What has been happening in Guatemala these past few months could be called an assault on all branches of government. The traditional and emerging powers...

    The Ríos Montt trial was a historic milestone
    2013 Julio Guatemala
    On May 10, a lower court sentenced retired General José Efraín Ríos Montt to 50 years in prison for the deaths—categorized as genocide—of 1,771 Ixil...

    Was it genocide or wasn’t it?
    2013 Mayo Guatemala
    Was genocide committed in Guatemala or not? There’s the possibility of an ideological trap in equating Guatemalan genocide with Nazi genocide and concluding...

    The Right’s militarism and lack of solidarity
    2013 Marzo Guatemala
    In nearly two centuries of independence, the Guatemalan Right has never accepted a proposal for any structural change that doesn’t favor it. This is...

    Totonicapán: The story of the first massacre since the peace
    2012 Noviembre Guatemala
    On Wednesday October 3, I was in Quetzaltenango giving a workshop on Mayan leadership to young indigenous people when we were alerted by people there...

    Military on trial and constitutional reforms
    2012 Septiembre Guatemala
    Three retired Guatemalan generals have stood trial in 2012: Efraín Ríos Montt, Héctor Mario López Fuentes and José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez. Ríos...

    Decriminalizing drugs: Pandora’s Box or the path to peace?
    2012 Abril Guatemala
    It was inevitable that the proposal of Guatemala’s new President, retired General Otto Pérez Molina, to discuss the possible decriminalization and even...

    Forty years later, another military President
    2011 Diciembre Guatemala
    On November 6, the same day as Nicaragua’s elections, but without the fraud or violence, Guatemala held its second round of voting for President. Retired...

    Going into the second round touching bottom
    2011 Octubre Guatemala
    The polls got the September 11 election results wrong. Not only did retired General Otto Pérez Molina not win on the first round, as had seemed likely...

    A null vote is a lucid vote in these elections
    2011 Agosto Guatemala
    In José Saramago’s novel An Essay on Blindness, the only person who doesn’t go bolind is a woman lucidly able to decipher Saramago’s parable on humanity....

    Chronicle of a love story
    2011 Julio Guatemala
    On the morning of May 15, 1984, young Carlos Cuevas Molina was riding his motorbike through Guatemala City’s historic center when he was intercepted...

    Guatemala’s electoral dilemma
    2011 Junio Guatemala
    A Cid-Gallup national poll conducted between May 11 and 15 and paid for, they say, by the government shows Otto Pérez Molina, loser in the 2007 elections,...

    War on Drugs in an Election Year?
    2011 Enero Guatemala
    It’s election year in Guatemala. In September one of the candidates—at least one of whom will be a woman if the Constitutionality Court allows her...

    A Government Strong with the Weak and Weak with the Strong
    2010 Octubre Guatemala
    Since 2008, when the National Unity of Hope (UNE) government took office with Álvaro Colom at the helm, we’ve witnessed both the structural roots that...

    Will the Fight against Impunity Continue? Will We End Up a Failed State?
    2010 Julio Guatemala
    When Carlos Castresana, the commissioner who headed up the UN International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) for two and a half years,...

    Media, Candidates, Cases, Expectations…
    2010 Abril Guatemala
    When the scandal caused by murdered Rodrigo Rosenberg’s accusations against President Colom, his wife and his private secretary exploded in Guatemala...

    What Does the Rosenberg Case Show Us?
    2010 Enero Guatemala
    The International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), a UN organization entrusted by the Guatemalan Congress with investigating serious...

    The Failed Conspiracy And the Chávez Factor
    2009 Septiembre Guatemala
    Three months ago in these pages we tried to find the thread leading us out of the labyrinth in which Guatemala had lost itself with the murder of lawyer...

    The Rosenberg Case: A Guatemalan Labyrinth
    2009 Junio Guatemala
    Guatemala’s situation has become even more complex than it was before May 10th, when Rodrigo Rosenberg was murdered, and the next day, when the mass...

    Narco-Business: A “New War”
    2009 Marzo Guatemala
    When setting out to analyze Álvaro Colom’s first year in government, one must keep the global crisis in mind. It’s already playing a role that the government...

    Can Álvaro Colom Become a Social Democratic President?
    2008 Marzo Guatemala
    President Álvaro Colom Caballeros started his inauguration speech on January 14, 2008, with an audacious phrase that tied his government to a serious...

    The Reasons, Passions and Values Behind a Vote
    2007 Noviembre Guatemala
    Guatemala’s 2007 election campaign is finally over. It ended with a second-round victory on November 4 by Álvaro Colom Caballeros, who identifies as...

    Surviving the Elections
    2007 Octubre Guatemala
    The title of this article is deliberately provocative. It suggests that elections in Guatemala are like one of the socio-natural disasters that periodically...

    An Uncertain and Violent Electoral Process
    2007 Agosto Guatemala
    These are the sixth elections since Guatemala’s current Constitution was promulgated and the democracy-building process officially launched in 1985,...

    Rigoberta Menchú: A Shooting Star in the Electoral Sky?
    2007 Julio Guatemala
    What has happened to Rigoberta Menchú’s candidacy for President of Guatemala? Didn’t several polls show her as the most widely recognized person in...

    Organized Crime is Embedded In the Public Institutions
    2007 Junio Guatemala
    On September 9, Guatemalans will elect a new President, legislativerepresentatives and mayors. The latest poll conducted by Vox Latina for the daily...

    Crime and Corruption in the Guatemalan Police
    2007 Marzo Guatemala
    The February 19 murder in Guatemala of three Salvadoran representatives to the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN)—Eduardo D’Aubuisson, William Pichinte...

    Rigoberta Menchú Bursts onto the Electoral Stage
    2007 Marzo Guatemala
    A strong jolt has rocked Guatemala’s electoral stage in the lead-up to the presidential, congressional and local elections, to be held on one of the...

    Ten Years of Peace: Three Appraisals
    2007 Febrero Guatemala
    Gustavo Porras, a sociologist sat on the commission that accompanied the peace accords between 1997 and 1999. We begin with this measured structural...

    Could “Evo” Happen in Guatemala?
    2006 Agosto Guatemala
    In Bolivia, for the first time in Latin America’s history, an indigenous citizen, Evo Morales, and his Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party won an...

    The Impenetrable Wall Built by the Rich
    2006 Junio Guatemala
    When the International Monetary Fund’s executive director Rodrigo Rato visited Guatemala, he openly declared that the country won’t be able to function...

    Institutions under Siege
    2006 Marzo Guatemala
    The political institutions underpinning the democratic system established in Guatemala two decades ago, when the military regime ended, are under siege....

    Elite vs. Grassroots Perspectives
    2005 Octubre Guatemala
    Nearly ten years after the Peace Accords were signed, and already halfway through the third government since then, the view of Guatemala from the peaks...

    “The State Doesn’t Have to Be Painted Mayan, But...”
    2005 Agosto Guatemala
    Whenever I return to Guatemala after a few weeks away, I’m invaded by an increasing sense of discouragement—a feeling many share. Things don’t seem...

    The United States Finds the Groundwork Laid
    2005 Junio Guatemala
    World trends on security, trade and other strategic issues, particularly those emanating from the United States to Central America—a crucial area of...

    Democracy? Rule of Law?
    2005 Abril Guatemala
    The new year in Guatemala began in an atmosphere marked by contact and confrontation among the country’s various social groups and between some of these...

    The Berger Government in Danger of Being Pulled Apart
    2005 Febrero Guatemala
    In 18th-century France, those who plotted to assassinate the king would be brutally tortured until they revealed the scope of the conspiracy. Then they...

    Devoured by Short-Term Thinking
    2004 Octubre Guatemala
    After nine months in office, President Oscar Berger and his team have dealt with few of Guatemala’s structural problems, the kinds that must be addressed...

    Berger’s First Six Months: Just Putting Out Flames?
    2004 Agosto Guatemala
    The honeymoon for President Oscar Berger’s government ended much sooner than anyone expected, cut short by two factors. The first was the huge jump...

    Some Positive Steps But Many Pending Issues
    2004 Abril Guatemala
    wo and a half months into Oscar Berger’s term in office, the Guatemalan population is still waiting to find out whether his government merits the optimism...

    The New Government Sparks Optimism and Expectations
    2004 Enero Guatemala
    The official results of the second round of Guatemala’s presidential elections on December 28 were ready the very next day. Oscar Berger had beaten...

    Presidential Elections up in the Air: First Round Results
    2003 Diciembre Guatemala
    On November 9, 2003, over 80% of Guatemala’s voters gave a resounding “No!” to General Efraín Ríos Montt. Whether because of memories of the bloody...

    2003 Elections: More Violence than Proposals
    2003 Octubre Guatemala
    Guatemala’s election campaigns are among the longest in the world. Discounting the fact that politicians are permanently campaigning in practice,...

    Will Anyone Register the General?
    2003 Agosto Guatemala
    Guatemala’s November 8 presidential, legislative and municipal elections, which will continue into December if a second round is required, are of utmost...

    Protesting for Life: A Bold, Persistent Teachers’ Strike
    2003 Abril Guatemala
    A teachers’ strike in Guatemala lasting nearly eight weeks, from January 20 to March 11, marked the beginning of 2003, Alfonso Portillo’s last year in...

    Word Games and Election Games
    2003 Enero Guatemala
    President Alfonso Portillo completed his third year in office on January 14. That day, he appeared before Congress to sum up his third and final report...

    The Religious Question and the Myth of the Army
    2002 Diciembre Guatemala
    On July 20, 1954, Archbishop Rosell believed he could still proudly say to those who had overthrown Jacobo Arbenz and put an end to the 1944 revolution...

    The Myrna Mack Case: An Historic Verdict
    2002 Noviembre Guatemala
    Myrna Elizabeth Mack Chang was assassinated on September 11, 1990. She had just left her office at the Association for the Advance of Social Sciences...

    Reflections on the Canonization of Central America’s First Saint
    2002 Septiembre Guatemala
    Pope John Paul II’s third visit to Guatemala was the antithesis of his first, in 1983, at least on one very polemical issue. The death penalty,...

    The Guatemalan Left: In a Delicate State
    2002 Julio Guatemala
    Is there still a reason to write about the Left in any country after the Communist parties in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe failed so spectacularly,...

    With the War Long Over in Ixcán, The Peace of the Accords Is Still to Come
    2002 Junio Guatemala
    How well are the Peace Accords being fulfilled in Guatemala? Not well at all. In his inaugural address, President Alfonso Portillo promised that the...

    The Armed Wing of the "Hidden Powers" in Action
    2002 Abril Guatemala
    On March 20, at 6:30 in the evening, several armed men ransacked the offices of the Association for the Advancement of Social Sciences (AVANCSO), a social...

    Militarization in Ixcán: Thin Red Lines
    2002 Marzo Guatemala
    The trauma of the war and the militarization are still palpable in many areas of indigenous and rural Guatemala. One such area is Ixcán, which was incorporated...

    Portillo Lives on Appearances While Covering up Reality
    2002 Enero Guatemala
    Alfonso Portillo’s presidential term is already more than half over. In the newspapers, reports of corruption come one after another with dizzying speed....

    Pain and questions in the Guatemalan Press
    2001 Octubre Guatemala
    The catastrophic terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have had strong repercussions in Guatemala—in the media, in people’s conversations...

    The Sales Tax Goes Up and Legitimacy Goes Down
    2001 Agosto Guatemala
    Amidst a bitter debate between President Portillo and CACIF, the leading business umbrella organization, the ruling Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG)...

    Gerardi Case: Justice for a Just Man
    2001 Junio Guatemala
    Justice for a just man was the motto at the commemoration of the third anniversary of the murder of 75-year-old Bishop Juan Gerardi, held on April 26-28....

    Arduous Efforts for Institutionality
    2001 Abril Guatemala
    March was chock full of events that revealed the depth and seriousness of the crises of Guatemala’s political institutions and most important economic...

    No Coup, Just Irresponsible Government
    2001 Marzo Guatemala
    At the end of February, just as in October last year, rumors swirled of an imminent coup d’état. Some held that the army would rise up in a traditional...

    Boozegate: A Revealing Ethical-Political Earthquake
    2000 Octubre Guatemala
    Guatemala’s government has been shown up for what it is once again, this time by the tax issue. Neither the executive nor the legislative branch has...

    Fiscal Pact a Major Achievement, Tax Reform Next in Line
    2000 Agosto Guatemala
    Appearances are deceiving. On Tuesday July 17, the front pages of the country’s two leading newspapers announced that, with only six months passed since...

    Who Fishes Best in Troubled Waters?
    2000 Junio Guatemala
    The first two and a half months of President Alfonso Portillo’s new government were characterized by remarkable inefficiency and punctuated by his own...

    The First Hundred Days: A Foreseeable Explosion
    2000 Mayo Guatemala
    The first great crisis in Alfonso Portillo’s presidency ended with the deaths of five people, including a press photographer. At the time these lamentable...

    Portillo’s First 75 Days: Lots of Noise, Few Results
    2000 Abril Guatemala
    Alfonso Portillo’s government has thus far been marked by few significant events other than that Justice Guillermo Ruiz Polanco of Madrid’s National...

    The New Portillo Government: Demagoguery or Revolution?
    2000 Enero Guatemala
    Alfonso Portillo, Guatemala’s new President, took office on January 14, 2000, four hours late. It was an inauspicious beginning, but was not his fault....

    Seeking New Ground In the General’s Shadow
    1999 Septiembre Guatemala
    The consequences would be unpredictable should Alfonso Portillo, the candidate of Ríos Montt's Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG), win the November 7...

    Why Was the Referendum Defeated?
    1999 Julio Guatemala
    On Sunday, May 16, 1999, the Guatemalan population voted to approve or reject the constitutional reforms drafted as a way of implementing some of the...

    Guatemala’s Women During the Long War: “Treated Worse than Animals”
    1999 Julio Guatemala
    Close to two hundred thousand dead and disappeared, one million displaced, over four hundred villages destroyed, two hundred thousand children orphaned...

    A Year after Gerardi: Memory and Disillusion
    1999 Mayo Guatemala
    "100,000 acclaim him" was the headline in Prensa Libre, Guatemala's leading newspaper, on Monday April 26, describing the huge crowd that gathered...

    "Memory of Silence:" A Stunning Indictment
    1999 Abril Guatemala
    The Historical Clarification Commission (CEH) presented its unexpectedly frank report on February 25 in Guatemala's National Theater. It was a fitting...

    A Cry Rises Over Raging Waters
    1999 Enero Guatemala
    Guatemala did not suffer the worst of the terrible disaster that struck Central America at the end of 1998 with Hurricane Mitch—the disaster, ironically,...

    The Circle Closes Around the Gerardi Case
    1998 Septiembre Guatemala
    The relationship between Guatemala's top military brass and the murdered auxiliary bishop of the Archdioceses of Guatemala, Juan José Gerardi Conedera,...

    A Political Crime That's Threatening The Peace Process
    1998 Agosto Guatemala
    The Public Ministry's first suspect in the killing of Bishop Juan Gerardi the night of April 26 led down a blind alley, as many had feared from the beginning....

    The Killing Stone, Bedrock of Peace?
    1998 Mayo Guatemala
    When we awoke on Monday, April 27, to phones ringing with the terrible news of Bishop Juan Gerardi's assassination, we knew that what we had intermittently...

    A Year Without War: "Low Intensity Peace"?
    1998 Marzo Guatemala
    After the first year of peace in 1997, the Guatemalan stage is filled with too many people unreservedly praising what has been harvested so far and too...

    The Left: A Past with no Present But with a Future?
    1997 Noviembre Guatemala
    The magazine called Debate, and subtitled "Toward Consensus," put out by the Center for Legal Action in Human Rights (CALDH), headed by Frank La Rué,...

    Poverty: Protagonist Of the Post War
    1997 Agosto Guatemala
    Guatemala's drop in the United Nations Human Development Index was the country's most significant news in June. According to that report, which is published...

    War Embedded in the Culture
    1997 Julio Guatemala
    Guatemala's political climate has changed drastically in the last five months, according to the media. The moderate approval given the government for...

    Peace Built on a Time Bomb
    1997 Mayo Guatemala
    These first months of 1997, in which three generations of Guatemalans are living together without armed conflict for the first time, have not, as we...

    Peace Accords: Return of the Quetzal
    1997 Febrero Guatemala
    Well-known Guatemalan Jesuit anthropologist Ricardo Falla recently wrote in the international press: "According to legend, when Alvarado fought hand...

    Signing Peace and Building It
    1996 Octubre Guatemala
    Last February, Guatemalan Foreign Minister Eduardo Stein announced that the peace accords between the government and the URNG would very likely be signed...

    The Clinton Report and The Arzú Plan
    1996 Agosto Guatemala
    Fifteen months ago the President of the United States ordered a high level investigation of US intelligence agency activities in Guatemala, especially...

    The Hidden Faces of the New Government
    1996 Julio Guatemala
    Analyses of the significance and scope of the socioeconomic and agrarian accord signed May 6 between the government and the URNG began surfacing throughout...

    Next Thorny Accord: The Armed Forces
    1996 Junio Guatemala
    The Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) and representatives of the Guatemalan government signed the Accord about Socioeconomic Aspects and...

    With Peace in Sight, Challenges Abound
    1996 Mayo Guatemala
    March was a month of notable advances toward peace and disturbing shifts towards barbarity. On the one hand, important steps were taken in the negotiations...

    Already Post-War, But Still no Peace
    1996 Abril Guatemala
    After a two month recess, the peace negotiations between the government and the URNG resumed in February. President Alvaro Arzú named former guerrilla...

    President Arzu: A New Stage Begins
    1996 Febrero Guatemala
    Like the fisherman in "The Old Man and the Sea," the National Advancement Party (PAN) made an admirable "catch" with a small "bait" in the two recent...

    The Election Scene
    1995 Diciembre Guatemala
    The eve of the November 12 general elections was darkened by the shadow of a recent massacre, severe criticisms in the third report from the United Nations...

    Massacre at Chisec: History Repeats Itself
    1995 Noviembre Guatemala
    On October 5 the history of bloodletting was repeated for 255 refugee families who had returned to Guatemala from Mexico. They lived on a cooperative...

    The Bishops Speak of True Peace
    1995 Octubre Guatemala
    A controversial pastoral letter from the Catholic Bishops' Conference identifying the historical causes of the country's social confrontations began...

    Peace Process Stalled Till After Elections
    1995 Septiembre Guatemala
    The peace negotiations bogged down in July, due to contradictory interests at play in the agenda point currently under discussion, disagreements within...

    The Many Wars Of the Centaur
    1995 Agosto Guatemala
    June has been a month of confrontations. The army won an important battle with the Public Ministry and the legal system by opposing the exhumation of...

    Is the URNG Moving To the Center?
    1995 Julio Guatemala
    A new front has opened against the Guatemalan army and its attacks will be hard to dodge this time, since they come from within the military ranks. ...

    Four Unknowns Before the Elections
    1995 Junio Guatemala
    Almost nine months after initiating negotiations on the rights and identity of indigenous peoples, the Guatemalan government and the URNG finally signed...

    The Bámaca Case: An Uncommon Scandal
    1995 Mayo Guatemala
    After three hunger strikes in two years, numerous trips through the corridors of power in Washington and Guatemala, the exhumation of three cadavers,...

    The Military Wall that Won't Fall
    1995 Abril Guatemala
    Guatemala's political and socioeconomic scene is still confusing. Although there are no official presidential candidates yet, the possible candidacy...

    The Peace Process is Dead! Long live the Electoral Process!
    1995 Febrero Guatemala
    Guatemala rang in the new year with the inauguration of retired general Efraín Ríos Montt, infamous for his genocidal policies while head of state in...

    Three Stubborn Women Confront Impunity
    1995 Enero Guatemala
    The United Nations Mission in Nicaragua (MINIGUA) finally began working in the country on November 21, eight months after the UN agreed to "immediately"...

    Where is the Guerrilla's Tomb?
    1994 Diciembre Guatemala
    By the end of October, Guatemalans were already waiting for the UN Verification Mission in Guatemala, MINUGUA, which had announced its arrival for mid...

    Coffee Prices Up in the "Country of the Few"
    1994 Noviembre Guatemala
    September was marked by the long awaited arrival of a preliminary delegation of the United Nations Mission for Guatemala (MINUGUA). It received the...

    How Goes the War Process?
    1994 Octubre Guatemala
    Retired General Efrain Ríos Montt, responsible for thousands of deaths during the 1980s, dominated the recent congressional elections and assured his...

    Common Graves: Unearthing the Truth
    1994 Septiembre Guatemala
    During July, the question on many Guatemalans' lips was, "Where's the United Nations?" The UN human rights verification commission has yet to show any...

    The "Changing" Country and the Real One
    1994 Agosto Guatemala
    The way the international news media has it, many things appear to be changing, and at an accelerated pace, in Guatemala. After days of negotiation...

    Who Sets the Tempo in the Dance of Peace?
    1994 Julio Guatemala
    The international community has decided that 1994 is the year in which the "Central American Chapter'" closes with a peace accord in Guatemala. The...

    The Rich Don't Want to Pay Taxes
    1994 Junio Guatemala
    A tense calm prevailed in the country following the Holy Week violence last month, and particularly the assassination of the Constitutional Court president....

    The State of Law in a State of Coma
    1994 Mayo Guatemala
    After six years of negotiations and almost a year of total stagnation, the Guatemalan government and the National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) signed a...

    Who's in Charge Here?
    1994 Abril Guatemala
    The shifts made in the military hierarchy in February affected the peace process and will have consequences for the country's future. They also make...

    A Powder Keg
    1994 Febrero Guatemala
    In Guatemala, the new year began overshadowed by the process and the results of the January 30 Popular Consultation, an extravaganza in politicking that...

    A November Full of Pitfalls
    1994 Enero Guatemala
    November was not one of President Ramiro León de Carpio's better months. The campaign he initiated in August to purge corrupt congressional members...

    De León in his Labyrinth
    1993 Diciembre Guatemala
    September's rumor of the month was that President Ramiro De León Carpio was going to resign. In October, the rumor was of an imminent coup. Finally,...

    Purging the Congress: A Pandora's Box
    1993 Noviembre Guatemala
    By the end of September, the government of President Ramiro de León Carpio was still facing a crisis of ungovernability. The purging process he had...

    Ramiro de León: the Military's Dream?
    1993 Octubre Guatemala
    After almost three months of Ramiro De León Carpio's new government, a joke is making the rounds in Guatemala: Since becoming President, Ramiro has...

    After the Honeymoon, What Then?
    1993 Agosto Guatemala
    Following two tumultuous weeks of coups and counter coups that seemed like a throwback to the 1980s, Guatemala's history took a 180 degree turn on June...

    The Coup All Knew Was Coming
    1993 Julio Guatemala
    On Tuesday, May 25, Guatemalans woke up to unexpected marimba music transmitted by a national chain of radio stations. They immediately knew what had...

    "Massacres in the Jungle"--Never Again?
    1993 Junio Guatemala
    "A guerrilla at age 60!" was the incredulous response of Jesuit priest Ricardo Falla when the Guatemalan Defense Minister accused him of being an ideologue...

    Guatemala's Revolving Door
    1993 Mayo Guatemala
    After the euphoria in January over the triumphal return of 2,400 refugees, February and March were very tense months for those who supported them, as...

    Rigoberta for President?
    1993 Enero Guatemala
    The Serrano Elías government had moved mountains to prevent the coveted Nobel Peace Prize from being awarded to an indigenous Guatemalan woman named...

    Rigoberta Menchú in Nicaragua
    1992 Diciembre Guatemala
    On October 16, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, heir of the Maya-Quiché people of Guatemala, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Committee recognized...

    Everything the Same?
    1992 Noviembre Guatemala
    Nothing seems to change in Guatemala. After initially trying to strengthen civilian power, President Jorge Serrano seems to have completely abandoned...

    Wearing Down and Tearing Down
    1992 Septiembre Guatemala
    The phrase that describes Guatemala these days is "wearing down." In 18 months of "governing," the Jorge Serrano administration has been unable to achieve...

    A New Kind of Development—Or a New Face on the Old?
    1992 Junio Guatemala
    With the international United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development (UNCED) just around the bend, it seems appropriate to take a close...

    After El Salvador, is Guatemala Next?
    1992 Marzo Guatemala
    After only a year in power, Guatemala's second civilian government, inherited from the weakened Vinicio Cerezo presidency, has become so debilitated...

    Guatemala: The Civilian Facade Collapses
    1991 Abril Centroamérica
    Guatemala witnessed three dynamic processes and one non-starter during 1990. The first dynamic process was the fight between the government and the...

    Challenges to the Military Model
    1990 Mayo Guatemala
    Three visions of the development of society are competing in Guatemala, as we examined in envío’s 1989 Central America issue: the “state stability”...

    Negotiations Held Hostage
    1989 Mayo Guatemala
    Three models in vontentionThree development models are contending for leadership of Guatemala's sociopolitical and economic process. 1....

    Modernization and Militarism
    1988 Marzo Centroamérica
    The centerpiece of the Guatemalan situation two years ago was the new civilian government's attempt to rebuild the state, in which the social forces...

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