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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... Ubico Castañeda. Within weeks the actions of laborers in the coffee and banana groves changed the course of the urban revolution. Across the next six years, under President Juan José Arévalo Bermejo, plantation workers joined up with ...
... Ubico unleashed waves of collective action in the countryside that forever undermined the logic of paternalism. When participa- tory democracy was crushed in 1954, the planter class returned to the most naked and brutal forms of ...
... Ubico crafted a dictatorship in which government surveillance and repression reached new heights of pathology. From the vantage of local court records and oral histories, however, the state emerges as less secure and more pli- ant than ...
... Ubico and bureaucratic corruption among Arévalo's labor inspectors. Class biases likewise distorted the judgment of the diplomatic sources, whether U.S. or Mexi- can, insofar as most embassy officials failed to recognize the political ...
... Ubico had already risen to prominence and established a political party to further his personal ambi- tions, and he easily manipulated the fragile political situation to his advantage. The general enjoyed considerable support. He had ...
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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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