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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... El Porvenir, which climbs from 3,800 to 4,800 feet on the border between San Pablo and El Rodeo, and planted it in coffee. El Porvenir's history is a microcosm of that of the San Marcos coffee zone. Fifteen years after he first leased ...
... El Porvenir had passed into German hands and emerged as one of the wealthiest coffee fincas in Guatemala. At Porvenir as elsewhere, the state expropriated the lands of German-born planters in World War II and turned the properties into ...
... El Porvenir, and its residents became plantation workers. Most traditional communities in the plantation belt were steamrollered by coffee. Even so, permanent workers from the highlands resisted the pattern of proletarianization and ...
... El Porvenir during the Ubico years, before all the assembled workers and their families, for the rape and murder of the German owner's daughter, whose body was found buried beneath a patio. Everyone who witnessed the execution was ...
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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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