Libro
 
ID  954
Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit. Guatemala Under General Efraín Ríos Montt 1982-1983
Garrard-Burnett, Virginia
Artículo Disponible
303.6409 G212
1
Donado
  • Ríos Montt. Efraín - Political and social views
  • Ríos Montt. Efraín - Religion
  • Guatemala - politics and government - 1945-1985
  • State-sponsored terrorism - Guatemala - History - 20th century
  • Political violence - Guatemala - History - 20th century
  • Mayas - Crimes against - Guatemala - History - 20th century
  • Human rights - Guatemala - History - 20th century
  • Christianity and politics - Guatemala - Hisotry - 20th century
Drawing on newly-available primary sources including guerrilla documents, evangelical pamphlets, speech transcripts, and declassified U.S. government records, Virginia Garrard-Burnett provides a fine-grained picture of what happened during Ríos Mott's rule. She suggests that three decades of war engendered an ideology of violence that cut not only vertically, but also horizontally, across class, cultures, communities, religions, and even families. The book examines the causality and effects of the ideology of violence, but it also explores the long durée of Guatemala history between 1954 and 1970s that made such an ideology possible. More significantly, she contends that selr-interes, willful ingnorance, and distraction permitted the human rights tragedies within Guatemala to take place without challenge from teh outside world.
978-0-19-984477-7
Oxford University Press
1
2010
Religion and Global Politics
270
United States of America
New York
English
Priscila Barrientos
Priscila Barrientos
27/11/2014
27/11/2014

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