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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... Barrios . Earlier Barrios had been defeated by an Indigenous contingent from the town of San Pedro in the de- partment of San Marcos , in one of the first of his many invasion attempts ( the Mex- ican government had by then passed into ...
... Barrios , Finca Santa Teresa , El Rodeo , May 10 , 1954 . 54. Adela Montes B. de Lima , Finca Terreno , El Rodeo , Sept. 10 , 1953 . 55. Salvador Augusto Villagrán Barrios , Finca Marilandia or Marialinda , Malacatán , Mar. 31 , 1953 ...
... Barrios , Aug. 17 . 34. Francisco Ignacio Mejicanos Ortega , Finca San Francisco , San Pablo , Nov. 8 , 1954 . 35. María Hermosilla Barrios de Matos , Finca Concepción , San Pablo , Sept. 2 , 1954 . 36. Jef . Pol . , 1954 , Malacatán ...
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