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ISBN-10:: 0520203496
ISBN-13:: 9780520203495
Pub. Date:: 11/14/1995
Publisher:: University of California Press

ISBN-10:: 0520203496
ISBN-13:: 9780520203495
Pub. Date:: 11/14/1995
Publisher:: University of California Press

Unfinished Conquest: The Guatemalan Tragedy / Edition 1

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Overview

Spanning the years of civil war in Guatemala, Unfinished Conquest portrays an embattled country facing the third cycle of a conquest that began when the conquistadors arrived in the sixteenth century. As personal narrative weaves with reportage and oral testimony, we meet the victims, champions, and villains of a society torn apart by violence and injustice.

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ISBN-13:	9780520203495
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	11/14/1995
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	297
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Victor Perera (1934-2003) was novelist and writer whose books include Rites: A Guatemalan Boyhood (1985) and The Last Lords of Palenque (California, 1986).

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction

PART I
1. Guatemala City
2. La Violencia
3. The New Conquerors

PART II THE IXIL TRIANGLE
4. Nebaj
5. Cotzal
6. The War Goes On

PART III HUEHUETENANGO
7. The Crosses of Todos Santos
8. San Mateo Ixtatan

PART IV SANTIAGO A TIT LAN
9. Father Stan Rother
10. The Missionaries' Return

PART V EL PETEN
11. Saving the Mayas' Rain Forest
12. The Battle Is Joined

PART VI
13. Unfinished Conquest
14. Profiles and Portents
15. Profiles and Portents II
16. The New Indian versus the New Maya
17. The Evangelical Presidents

Epilogue
Afterword
Bibliography
Index

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Editorial Reviews

This engrossing combination of reportage, personal narrative, oral testimony and ethnographic investigation focuses on four Guatemalan towns which have been the object of an ethnic extermination campaign by the military. More than 65,000 Guatemalans of Mayan descent have died in this conflict since 1978. Perera ( The Last Lords of Palenque ), a native Guatemalan living in the U.S., examines the relationship between the campaign and the country's political leadership, the destruction of natural resources, and the Mayan-Christian religious practices of those under assault. Included is an analysis of the activities of radical Catholic priests and human-rights groups in a land of torture and killing, and observations on the growing Protestant evangelical movement which has already converted more than a third of the nominally Catholic indigenous population. Perera's layered narrative, set in a land of earthquakes, volcanoes and massacres, reads like a medieval morality tale. Photos. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Despite the slight flurry of interest inspired by the award of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize to Mayan Indian Rigobarta Menchu, the press is again ignoring the ongoing genocide of the Guatemalan people by state-sponsored terrorism. In an insightful historical analysis, Guatemalan writer Perera describes how the breathtakingly beautiful home of the Mayas has been torn apart by heinous abuses of human rights. The civil war, really a peasant agrarian movement against large interests aided by the United States and Israel in the guise of fighting communism, is destroying a culture so strong that it survived the brutality of the Spanish Conquest almost intact. Highly recommended for lay readers as well as scholars. --Louise Leonard, Univ. of Florida Libs., Gainesville

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