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> Guatemala has the most unequal land distribution in the Western Hemisphere, with large landholders who comprise only 2% of the population possessing 70% of the productive lands. > Attacks against human rights defenders in Guatemala increased between 2004 and 2005. In 2005, El Movimiento Nacional por los Derechos Humanos documented 224 attacks against human rights defenders, in comparison with 122 attacks in 2004. > On March 30, 2006, the 11th anniversary of the signing of the indigenous accord, tens of thousands of workers, farmers and indigenous people marched in Guatemala City to demand the strengthening of indigenous rights, restriction of open pit mining licenses, and funds for the Ministry of Agriculture to purchase land for redistribution. |
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Essential Reading
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed The Bishop?, by Francisco Goldman. Grove Press, 2007.
Through a Glass Darkly: The U.S. Holocaust in Central America, by Thomas R. Melville. USA: Xlibris, 2005.Our Culture is Our Resistance: Repression, Refuge, and Healing in Guatemala, by Jonathan Moller. New York: powerHouse Books, 2004.
The Battle for Guatemala: Rebels, Death Squads and U.S. Power, by Susanne Jonas. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991.
Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, by Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer. New York: Doubleday, 1982.
I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala, edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray. New York: Verso Editions, 1984.
The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War, by Greg Grandin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Massacres in the Jungle: Ixcan, Guatemala, 1975-1982, by Ricardo Falla. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994.
Maya Resurgence in Guatemala: Q’eqchi’ Experiences, by Richard Wilson. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.
Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala’s Peace Process, by Susanne Jonas. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000.
Paradise in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage Terror and Hope, by Beatriz Manz. California: University of California Press, 2004.
Refugees of a Hidden War: The Aftermath of Counterinsurgency in Guatemala, by Beatriz Manz. New York: State University of NY Press, 1987.
Return of Guatemala’s Refugees: Reweaving the Torn, by Clark Taylor. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998
Unarmed Bodyguards: International
Accompaniment for the Protection of Human Rights, by
Liam Mahony and Luis Enrique Eguren. West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press,
1997.
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