Of Centaurs And Doves: Guatemala's Peace Process

by Susanne Jonas

Overview

"In a century of horrors, Guatemala from 1954 to the present has been a bloody scene of some of the worst horrors—and the United States has been deeply involved. Drawing upon 30 years of experience in Central America, hundreds of interviews, and analyses of the vast documentary materials, Susanne Jonas masterfully explains not only how the Guatemalan tragedies, the U.S. involvement, and the stumbling 1990s peace process developed. She also raises fundamental questions about the badly misunderstood and much over-hyped 'democratic transition'supposedly occurring in Guatemala and elsewhere in the region." —Walter LaFeber Cornell University, author of Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813334684
Publisher:	Westview Press
Publication date:	03/24/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Susanne Jonas teaches Latin American & Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. An expert on Central America and Guatemala for over 32 years, she is the author of The Battle for Guatemala: Rebels, Death Squads,andU.S. Power (Westview 1991). She recently coedited Immigration: Civil Rights Issue for the Americas.

Table of Contents

Foreword — Prologue — Background: Guatemals’s Thirty-Six-Year Civil War — The Mined Road to Peace — The Terms of Peace — Can Peace Bring Democracy or Social Justice? — The U.S. Role: The Cold War and Beyond — Implementation Wars — High Hopes and Stark Realities: Obstacles to Sustainable Development — The Hijacking of the Constitutional Reforms — Conclusion: "Reinvention" or Lost Opportunity? Global, Comparative, and Imaginary Perspectives — Epilogue