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"Love And War" in English When we published the excerpts from Eduardo Galeano's extraordinary personal/political memoir, Days and Nights of Love and War, in our Fifteenth Anniversary issue...
...For more information, contact the Campaign for Peace with Justice in Central America, 1747 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C...
...Guzman was supported by both the PPS and the PCM, winning close to 20% of the vote...
...Nothing so clearly illustrates the worth of such an effort as Galeano's own memoir...
...The campaign aims to educate about the dangers of escalating U.S...
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...As the regime's options for survival narrow even further, the armed forces may be offering not a democratic opening but the "Chileanization" of Guatemala...
...Judith Brister, who translated the excerpts for NACLA, has translated the complete work for Monthly Review...
...This is subject to misinterpretation and the author has asked us to clarify it...
...Presidential Alternatives Judith Matloff's article on Mexico's presidential elections-"To PRI Or Not To PRI" (March-April 1982)- discussed the importance of the PSUM coalition and noted that PSU M's Martinez Verduga was the Left's first official presidential candidate since the PRI took power in 1929...
...But what we are unlikely to be told is the story of the alternative-a popular movement attuned to the special character of Guatemalan society and the indigenous majority of the population, with broad appeal and a coherent program of social transformation...
...Please send a self-addressed, stamped, size 10 business envelope (40 cents postage) to us at 151 W. 19th St., NYC 10011, and you'll be able to choose from a 15-year collection of "mini-books" on Latin America...
...Part II of our Report will examine Rios Montt's record and challenge Reagan's judgment...
...The winter's activities will culminate in Central America Week, March 1827...
...That story is the heart of our second issue...
...Is revolution feasible in the current Cold War climate and the explosive tensions in Central America...
...While the PPS, which supported the PRI candidate this year, could now hardly be considered a party of the left, it initially grew out of a left-wing Marxist split from the PRI...
...As always, our study is the result of months of careful research, two field-trips to Guatemala and access to a unique range of documentation and interviews with all social and political sectors...
...That headline reporting, we can safely predict, will be rife with myths...
...The group has prepared an organizer's packet listing resources, suggestions for local activities and Congressional lobbying and guidelines for worship...
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...In 1952, Miguel Henriquez Guzman, discontent with the PRI's move to the right (and failure to select him as candidate), broke away and formed his own party, the Popular Political Front, running on a platform of true agrarian reform, freeing political prisoners and opportunity for political opposition...
...While it's flattering to know that the Report is such a prized commodity, this also has prevented many professors from assigning it to their classes...
...A new catalogue of all our back issues is now available...
...Why did that challenge fail, and what lessons have been learned...
...Love And War" in English When we published the excerpts from Eduardo Galeano's extraordinary personal/political memoir, Days and Nights of Love and War, in our Fifteenth Anniversary issue last fall, we offered them as a powerful testimony to the lives and courage of the people of Latin America...
...Part I of this special two-part Report will focus on the disintegration of Guatemala's ruling class since 45update update update update the overthrow of the democratic Arbenz regime in 1954...
...A Reminder We often hear that NACLA Reports disappear from college library shelves as soon as they arrive-never to be returned...
...The Report's Project Director is NACLA staff researcher George Black, in collaboration with two of this country's 46 leading Guatemala scholars: Milton Jamail of the University of Texas at Austin and Norma Stoltz Chinchilla of the University of California at Irvine...
...We are delighted to announce that this testimony is now available in its entirety- from Monthly Review Press ($16, cloth...
...Instead, we will ask what it takes for revolution to happen in a country like Guatemala, and offer NACLA readers an in-depth analysis of the roots of revolt...
...Unofficially, left-wing or progressive candidates have occasionally run for president...
...The horrors and massacres perpetrated by the decaying elite may grab the headlines...
...Although the Mexican Communist Party (PCM) and smaller leftwing parties now united in the PSUM could not run official candidates in previous presidential contests, the Popular Socialist Party (PPS) has been officially on the ballot since its formation in the forties...
...Campaign Launched Seventeen U.S...
...In his December meeting with President Rios Montt, Ronald Reagan characterized the new Guatemalan dictator as "totally committed to democracy...
...involvement in the region, and mobilize opposition to intervention and support for "lasting peace with justice...
...Part I also shows the profound legacy of the 19441954 "revolution" and the origins of a revived popular challenge in the 1960s...
...Nearly one-third of our current sales go to college bookstores and professors who assign the Report to their students...
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...Our Report concludes with a study of the regional and international dimensions of the Guatemalan crisis...
...peace groups, religious organizations and Central American solidarity networks have banded together to form the Campaign for Peace with Justice in CentralAmerica...
...A New Look At Guatemala Eight years after our classic book Guatemala, NACLA returns to Central America's largest and most strategically vital country for a detailed study of the crisis which will be front-page news in 1983...
...The new book also includes a previously unpublished article, entinovIcgUs tied "In Defense of the Word," translated by Bobbye Ortiz, in which Galeano argues for the need to rescue the power of writing from the privileged and claim it for the revolution and the people carrying it forward...
...Here we describe a state which has failed to do its job of running society, and descended into brute terror as its only means of survival...
...Journalists flock to Latin America to learn "the truth" of these countries, but his experience conveys the reality of Latin America in a way those who have not lived it can never do...
...How far will Reagan intervene to block the popular alternative...
...Avaricious generals and evangelical fanatics make good news fodder, but tell us little of Guatemala's complex reality...
Vol. 16 • November 1982 • No. 6
