Paraíso en cenizas, una odisea de valentía, terror y esperanza en Guatemala, Beatriz Manz ; prefacio Aryeh Neier ; [traducción Mario Zamudio]
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Paraíso en cenizas, una odisea de valentía, terror y esperanza en Guatemala, Beatriz Manz ; prefacio Aryeh Neier ; [traducción Mario Zamudio]
Language
spa
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
resource.governmentPublication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Paraíso en cenizas
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bibliography
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794004469
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Beatriz Manz ; prefacio Aryeh Neier ; [traducción Mario Zamudio]
Review
"Paradise in Ashes is a moving account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. Beatriz Manz, an anthropologist who spent more than two decades studying the Mayan highlands and rain forests of Guatemala, tells the story of the remote village of Santa Maria Tzeja, near the Mexican border. Manz shows how the story of this village - its birth, destruction, and rebirth - embodies the forces and conflicts that define Guatemala today. She places the saga of Santa Maria Tzeja in a broad framework that encompasses Guatemala's tortured history, the conflicts of the cold war, and the tensions of contemporary globalization. Her chronicle demonstrates that it is in villages such as this that the difficult struggle for survival is unfolding." "Drawing on her interviews with peasants, community leaders, guerrillas, and members of the paramilitary forces, Manz creates a detailed political portrait of Santa Maria Tzeja, where highland Maya peasants seeking land settled in the 1970s. She describes these villagers' plight as their isolated, lush, but deceptive paradise became one of the centers of the war convulsing the entire country in the 1980s. After the village was viciously sacked in 1982, some desperate survivors fled into the surrounding rain forest and eventually to Mexico, and some even further to the United States, while others stayed behind and fell into the military's hands. With insight and compassion, Manz follows their flight and eventual return to Santa Maria Tzeja, where they sought to rebuild their village and their lives."--Jacket
Sub title
una odisea de valentía, terror y esperanza en Guatemala
Table Of Contents
Highland homeland -- Settling in the promised land -- The war finds paradise -- Ashes, exodus and faded dreams -- A militarized village -- Reunification -- Treading between fear and hope
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- Quiché Indians + Relocation -- Mexico
- Retorno de emigrados -- Santa María Tzejá (Guatemala)
- Relaciones civiles-militares -- Santa María Tzejá (Guatemala)
- Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres (Guatemala)
- Santa María Tzejá (Guatemala) -- Política y gobierno
- Santa María Tzejá (Guatemala) -- Condiciones sociales
- Violencia política -- Santa María Tzejá (Guatemala)
- Quiché Indians + Crimes against -- Guatemala -- Santa María Tzejá
- Quichés + Crímenes contra la humanidad -- Santa María Tzejá (Guatemala)
- Return migration -- Guatemala -- Santa María Tzejá
- Santa María Tzejá (Guatemala) -- Social conditions
- Massacres -- Guatemala -- Santa María Tzejá
- Masacres -- Santa María Tzejá (Guatemala)
- Santa María Tzejá (Guatemala) -- Politics and government
- Political violence -- Guatemala -- Santa María Tzejá
- 610 27 Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres (Guatemala)
- Civil-military relations -- Guatemala -- Santa María Tzejá
- Quichés + Reubicación -- México
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- Quiché Indians + Relocation -- Mexico
- Retorno de emigrados -- Santa María Tzejá (Guatemala)
- Relaciones civiles-militares -- Santa María Tzejá (Guatemala)
- Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres (Guatemala)
- Santa María Tzejá (Guatemala) -- Política y gobierno
- Santa María Tzejá (Guatemala) -- Condiciones sociales
- Violencia política -- Santa María Tzejá (Guatemala)
- Quiché Indians + Crimes against -- Guatemala -- Santa María Tzejá
- Quichés + Crímenes contra la humanidad -- Santa María Tzejá (Guatemala)
- Return migration -- Guatemala -- Santa María Tzejá
- Santa María Tzejá (Guatemala) -- Social conditions
- Massacres -- Guatemala -- Santa María Tzejá
- Masacres -- Santa María Tzejá (Guatemala)
- Santa María Tzejá (Guatemala) -- Politics and government
- Political violence -- Guatemala -- Santa María Tzejá
- 610 27 Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres (Guatemala)
- Civil-military relations -- Guatemala -- Santa María Tzejá
- Quichés + Reubicación -- México
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