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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... planters. Arbenz in ef- fect legislated a new social order. His brief presidency closed the gap between state and ... planter class returned to the most naked and brutal forms of coercion but no longer enjoyed the comforts of a dominant ...
... planter “justice” under 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 ...
... planters and they proceeded to impose reform by force of arms. The alliance was personified by the two leaders of the armed conspir- acy, the consummate politician and merchant Miguel García Granados and the San Marcos coffee grower ...
... planters came in the early 1920s, when a re- volt of modernizing professionals and artisans in the first flush of trade union for- mation ousted Estrada Cabrera. The democratic sectors of society elected a moder- ate civilian as ...
... planters in Escuintla tapped highland Mayan populations for their labor needs. The town of Escuintla became the commercial hub for tropical and cattle products and today it ranks as the second largest industrial center, after the ...
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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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