Mon:	Sandinistas and Contras: Nicaragua in the 1980s
Wed:	Indians, Guerrillas, and the Army: Guatemala and Peru
Fri:	NO CLASS - Easter Holiday
Readings:	begin reading Montejo

MOVIE NIGHT: Wednesday at 7:30, Marquette Hall 100
Francisco Lombardi, "The Mouth of the Wolf" (Peru, 1988)

 

 

 

 

 

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. The evidence suggested that others remain at large, and attempts to seek them out have been met with political assassination and stonewalling.

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