Remembering the Guatemalan Civil War

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorGray, Maria
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-20T19:43:44Z
dc.date.available2022-10-20T19:43:44Z
dc.date.issued2016-05-12
dc.description.abstractIn Guatemala, the land of eternal spring, the topic of their thirty-six year Civil War (1961-1996) is almost taboo. It is certainly not discussed in the cafes, eco-attractions, and Mayan historical and archeological sites attracting thousands of tourists. Still, the track mark of the Civil War is easy to see if you know where to search. While living in Guatemala, my Spanish tutors tearfully shared with my fellow students and me the stories of the people they knew and family members they had lost. They are still scarred by the actions of the government-supported death squads. Despite the twenty years since the conclusion of the war, they are disgruntled by the lack of change that has come to Guatemalan society in that time. The poor are still poor and the government is still corrupt. When an army truck one day drove down the streets of Antigua, I witnessed the visibly automatic response of heightened apprehension and anxiety that still lingers.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipMark Edwards, Diane Kurtz, Kimberly Rupert, Paul Nemeceken_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11210/281
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectGuatemalan Civil Waren_US
dc.subjectGuatemala Historyen_US
dc.subjectNew York Timesen_US
dc.subjectWashington Posten_US
dc.subjectSpring Arbor Universityen_US
dc.subjectMaria Grayen_US
dc.titleRemembering the Guatemalan Civil Waren_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Thesis-Remembering the Guatemalan Civil War_OCR.pdf
Size:
11.22 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Download

Collections

Arts & Humanities