Volume 48, Number 10 · June 21, 2001
Guatemala: The Unfinished Peace
By Stephen Kinzer
BOOKS AND REPORTS MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala's Peace Process
Susanne Jonas
Westview, 299 pp., $25.00 (paper)
Los Difíciles Senderos de la Paz en Guatemala
Gudrun Molkentin
Guatemala City: Flacso, 206 pp. (paper)
Memoria Verdad y Esperanza: Version Popular del Informe Guatemala: Nunca Más
a report by the Archbishopric of Guatemala
304 pp. (paper)
El Guerrillero y el General: Rodrigo Asturias y Julio Balconi Sobre la Guerra y la Paz en Guatemala
Dirk Kruijt and Rudie Van Meurs
Guatemala City: Flacso, 234 pp. (paper)
El Drama de la Pobreza en Guatemala: Sus Rasgos y Efectos Sobre la Sociedad
a report by the government of the Republic of Guatemala
43 pp. (paper)
A Mayan woman named Petronila doesn't know how old she is, but she knows how long it has been since her life was shattered in the Guatemalan war: nineteen years. The story she told me when I was in the highland province of Quiché is typical of what happened to many thousands of others. In 1982, before her eyes, her sister was raped by soldiers and then carried off, never to be seen again. That same year an army patrol showed up and ate the dinner she had cooked for her father and brother, both of whom the patrol had just killed not far from her house.
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