History of Latin America
Week 11: Sandinistas, 'Indians', and the End of the Cold War

Lecture outline
Readings: **selections from Montejo, Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan Village; Kirkpatrick,


 

 

 

 

 


LEFT: Religious status dressed as soldier in Chajul, El Quiche, Guatemala. Photograph by Jean-Marie Simon, in Guatemala: Eternal Spring, Eternal Tyranny. RIGHT: Funeral procession after 53 Q'eqchi' Maya were killed by the Guatemalan military at Panzós, Alta Verapaz, 1978.

From Alyssa Wilson, on the disappearance in September 2006 of a Dirty War witness.

The Pentagon's consideration of the "Salvador option" in Iraq, and the hindsight view of Salvadoran guerilla leader Joaquin Villalobos, now an adviser to Colombian president Alvaro Uribe on how to fight guerilla movements there.

Guatemala: Memory of Silence: the Report of the Commission for Historical Clarification.
Three military officers and a priest were convicted in the murder of Bishop Juan Gerardi two days after he presented this report.

Click here for a set of Rigoberta Menchú's speeches, and here for a synopsis of criticisms recently made of her work.