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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... Party.48 In the departments of Sololá and Chimaltenango the party activated the local networks of jefes políticos that still ruled uncontested in the townships and organized thousands of Kaqchikels to march on the capital beginning in ...
... Party's bait was irresistible . The Ladino reformers of Guatemala City , by con- trast , had hardly intersected at all with the Indigenous majority . The Liberal Party lit the tinder that erupted in the Patzicía massacre of October 22 ...
... party , the FPL or Popular Libera- tion Front , even became the party of choice for the San Marcos planter elite . It moved steadily toward the right of the spectrum of revolutionary parties . So along- side labor struggles , political ...
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