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De Guatemala a Guatepeor

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GARRISON GUATEMALA. By BLACKGEORGE, JAMAILWITH MILTON and CHINCHILLANORMA STOLTZ. (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1984. Pp. 208. $25.00 cloth, $9.00 paper.)
THE DEMOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION OF A PEASANT SYSTEM: THE GUATEMALAN POPULATION. By EARLYJOHN D. (Boca Raton: University Presses of Florida, 1982. Pp. 207. $20.00.)
EL PROLETARIADO RURAL EN EL AGRO GUATEMALTECO. By IBARRACARLOS FIGUEROA. (Guatemala City: Editorial Universitaria de Guatemala, 1980. Pp. 475.)

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Forrest D. Colburn
Forrest D. Colburn*
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Princeton University
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , 1986 , pp. 242 - 248
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Copyright © 1986 by the University of Texas Press

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Notes

1. For a rather feeble exception, see Jorge E. Torres Ocampo, Reflexión, análisis, crítica y autocrítica de la situación política de Guatemala (Guatemala: Unión Tipográfica, 1980).

2. For a succinct overview of the Guatemalan economy and the agro-export sector in particular, see Inforpress, Centro América 1983 (Guatemala: Inforpress, 1983), 1–20; Inforpress, Centro América, 1984–1986 (Guatemala: Inforpress, 1984), 17–26.

3. Figures are from Black's Garrison Guatemala, 3–4.

4. See Douglas J. Uzzell, “Mixed Strategies and the Informal Sector: Three Faces of Reserve Labor,” Human Organization 39 (Spring 1980):40–49.

5. Don R. Hoy and Francis J. Belisle, “Environmental Protection and Economic Development in Guatemala's Western Highlands,” The Journal of Developing Areas 18 (Jan. 1984):161–76.

6. This organization was based in the eastern lowlands in the department of Izabal.

7. In addition to the books listed here, see Gabriel Aguilera Peralta and Jorge Romero Imery, Dialéctica del terror en Guatemala (San José: Editorial Universitaria Centroamericana, 1981); and Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (London: Verso Editions, 1984). The latter was first published as Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y así me nació la conciencia (Barcelona: Editorial Argos Vergara, 1983).

8. Solidarity Publications, Articles from Compañero (San Francisco: Popular Press, 1982), 33.

9. See the newsletter published by the EGP, Compañero, and that of a solidarity group in Mexico, Noticias de Guatemala.