The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October RevolutionUniversity of Pittsburgh Press, 4 Νοε 2001 - 287 σελίδες "The time of freedom" was the name that plantation workers--campesinos--gave to Guatemala's national revolution of 1944-1954. Cindy Forster reveals the critical role played by the poor in organizing and sustaining this period of reform. |
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... Mexico; the second was the United Fruit Company's banana zone in Tiquisate, in the Pacific lowlands. Indigenous San Marcos and Ladino Tiquisate were utterly unlike in size and social complexity, language and race, popular cul- ture and ...
... Mexico—employed an array of populist, socialist, and liberal strategies to resolve dilemmas of inequality common throughout Latin America. U.S. diplomats, for their part, were torn between the alarm of the United Fruit Company and the ...
... Mexico and the United States moved toward populist solutions to address the people's desperation, in Central America the Great Depression gave rise to new heights of repression. In Guatemala, arrests rose dramatically. The poor were ...
... Mexico , unhindered by the police , since he had broken no laws , and in any case , he pretended not to speak Spanish whenever they tried to question him . Other strangers faced greater obstacles . In general , officials encouraged ...
... Mexico with the sole object of buying beautiful women for the bordellos of South America.” Jewishness was offered to ex- plain their depravity. Buried in the detail of a branch office disguised as a syna- gogue was the information that ...
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3 Birth of the Revolution | 74 |
4 Banana Workers and the United Fruit Company in Tiquisate | 117 |
5 Agrarian Radicalism in San Marcos 19441952 | 138 |
6 Local Struggles and Land Reform | 177 |
7 Elite Backlash and Revenge | 197 |
Interview with Three Coffee Workers | 223 |
Interview with Woman in the Struggle for Land | 225 |
List of Interviews | 227 |
Notes | 231 |
Works Cited | 271 |
Index | 279 |
Back Cover | 288 |
Conclusion | 214 |
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