The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October RevolutionUniversity of Pittsburgh Press, 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. Through court records, labor and agrarian ministry archives, and oral histories, Forster demonstrates how labor conflict on the plantations prepared the ground for national reforms that are usually credited to urban politicians. She focuses on two plantation zones that generated exceptional momentum: the coffee belt in the highlands around San Marcos and the United Fruit Company's banana groves near Tiquisate. Although these regions were unlike in size and complexity, language and race, popular culture and work patterns, both erupted with demands for workers' rights and economic justice shortly after the fall of Castañeda in 1944. A welcome balance to the standard "top-down" histories of the revolution, Forster's sophisticated analysis demonstrates how campesinos changed the course of the urban revolution. By establishing the context of grassroots mobilization, she substantially alters the conventional view of the entire revolution, and particularly the reforms enacted under President Albenz. |
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... new economic opportunities . Malacatán , just to the north of Catarina , was the seedbed of agrarian radical- ism in ... Nuevo Progreso , and the coffee municipios of Quetzaltenango . At the zone's steeper upland boundary , ferns give ...
... Nuevo Progreso , Adolfo Arreaga , were fined thousands of quetzales for interrupting the legal application of the agrarian reform . More seriously , Adolfo Arreaga was the justice of the peace and thus was responsible for enforcing the ...
... Nueva Escocia , Nuevo Progreso , Mar. 13 , 1954 . 45. María and Evangelina Morales Reyna , Finca Santa Julia , San Rafael Pie de la Cuesta , Aug. 19 , 1953 ; Richard Neuhasus [ sic ] , Finca Los Cerezos , Tejutla , Aug. 27 , 1952 ; and ...
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