12B—History of Latin America
Indians, Guerillas, and the Army
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I. La Violencia in Guatemala, 1966-96

ladinos vs. indígenas
1960s - ladino guerrillas in southeast
Green Revolution
Central American Common Market
Acción Católica
1970s - guerrillas move to western highlands
1977 - CUC (Comité Unidad Campesina)
Vicente Menchú
1980 - Spanish embassy burned
1981-83 - Gen. Efraín Rios Montt
1986 - civilian president elected
1992 - Rigoberta Menchú gets Nobel Peace Prize
1996 - peace accords
1998 - Bishop Juan Gerardi assassinated

II. Peru's Shining Path

1920s - José Carlos Mariátegui; ayllu
1968-9 - Gen. Juan Velasco Alvarado's “Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces”
Abimaél Guzmán
1983-84 - military response, esp. around Ayacucho
1990-92 - Alberto Fujimori
rondas campesinas