Guatemala Rainbow
Guatemala Rainbow

Author:

Publisher: Pomegranate Communications

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780876544440

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Guatemala is one of the few places on earth where traditional textile arts from ancient cultures survive: Mayan spinners and weavers still produce the traditional motifs developed by their ancestors, but modern dyes add brilliant, luminous color to their textiles. This book presents 150 superb photographs by Gianni Vecchiato, providing a magnificent view of the textiles people, and daily life of Guatemala. It is truly a feast for the eye and spirit.

Guatemala Revealed
Guatemala Revealed

Author: Harris Whitbeck

Publisher: Villegas Editores

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789588156811

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Providing a magical tour of a country that is both modern and deeply rooted in the past, these beautiful photographs explore Guatemala from unusual perspectives and seek out isolated places and enigmatic people as well as astounding natural landscapes and bright, busy cities. Alongside the pictures, written passages describe the time the author and photographer spent in the Guatemalan countryside.

Guatemala
Guatemala

Author: Jean-Marie Simon

Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780393305067

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Describes the political situation in Guatemala, shows citizens of Guatemala, and argues that hundreds are still kidnapped, tortured, and killed by government security forces

Guatemala in Pictures
Guatemala in Pictures

Author: Rita J. Markel

Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9780822519980

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Discusses the geography, history, government, people, cultural life, and economy of Guatemala.

The Guatemala Reader
The Guatemala Reader

Author: Greg Grandin

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2011-10-31

Total Pages: 689

ISBN-13: 0822351072

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DIVAn interdisciplinary anthology on the largest, most populous nation in Central America, covering Guatemalan history, culture, literature and politics and containing many primary sources not previously published in English./div

Finding Fernanda
Finding Fernanda

Author: Erin Siegal

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2012-05-15

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0807001856

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The dramatic story of how an American housewife discovered that the Guatemalan child she was about to adopt had been stolen from her birth mother Over the last decade, nearly 200,000 children have been adopted into the United States, 25,000 of whom came from Guatemala. Finding Fernanda, a dramatic true story paired with investigative reporting, tells the side-by-side tales of an American woman who adopted a two-year-old girl from Guatemala and the birth mother whose two children were stolen from her. Each woman gradually comes to realize her role in what was one of Guatemala’s most profitable black-market industries: the buying and selling of children for international adoption. Finding Fernanda is an overdue, unprecedented look at adoption corruption—and a poignant, riveting human story about the power of hope, faith, and determination.

Images and Intervention
Images and Intervention

Author: Martha L. Cottam

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre

Published: 1994-04-15

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0822974630

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Cottam explains the patterns of U.S. intervention in Latin America by focusing on the cognitive images that have dominated policy makers' world views, influenced the procession of information, and informed strategies and tactics. She employs a number of case studies of intervention and analyzes decision-making patterns from the early years of the cold war in Guatemala and Cuba to the post-cold-war policies in Panama and the war on drugs in Peru. Using two particular images-the enemy and the dependent-Cottam explores why U.S. policy makers have been predisposed to intervene in Latin America when they have perceived an enemy (the Soviet Union) interacting with a dependent (a Latin American country), and why these images led to perceptions that continued to dominate policy into the post-cold-war era.

Invading Guatemala
Invading Guatemala

Author: Matthew Restall

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 0271027584

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The invasions of Guatemala -- Pedro de Alvarado's letters to Hernando Cortes, 1524 -- Other Spanish accounts -- Nahua accounts -- Maya accounts

Our Culture is Our Resistance
Our Culture is Our Resistance

Author: Francisco Goldman

Publisher: powerHouse Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13:

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Our Culture Is Our Resistance: Repression, Refuge, and Healing in Guatemala is a stunning document of this tiny Central American country, revealing stories of life and death, of hope and despair, and of struggles for survival, respect, and truth. For the past ten years Jonathan Moller has photographed communities uprooted by war in Guatemala. The beauty and strength of Moller's one hundred forty-seven tritone portraits and the accompanying texts not only document and preserve the faces and events associated with this land and its history, but also display for the viewer the humanity and dignity of these largely Mayan indigenous peoples. Sponsors and official endorsers of the book include Amnesty International, the Soros Foundation, Global Exchange, The Nation Institute, the Photo Review, Witness for Peace, and Cultural Survival.