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Understanding Transitions to Democracy: Recent Work on Guatemala

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GUATEMALA: A COUNTRY GUIDE. By BARRY TOM. Revised edition. (Albuquerque, N.M.: Inter-Hemispheric Education Resource Center, 1990. Pp. 168. $9.95.)
GUATEMALA, A NATION IN TURMOIL. By CALVERT PETER. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1985. Pp. 239. $28.00.)
HARVEST OF VIOLENCE: THE MAYA INDIANS AND THE GUATEMALAN CRISIS. Edited by CARMACK ROBERT M. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. Pp. 334. $21.95.)

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Robert H. Trudeau
Robert H. Trudeau*
Affiliation:
Providence College
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , 1993 , pp. 235 - 247
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Copyright © 1993 by Latin American Research Review

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Notes

1. The post-transitional source was part of an address by Carl Gershman, president of the National Endowment for Democracy, delivered at the International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, 23–25 Oct. 1986, Boston. The second comment is taken from Paul Goepfert, “Democratic Opening,” The Progressive, no. 49 (Nov. 1985):36–39.

2. To be fair, Barry does not claim theoretical sophistication, but he does present material from a critical perspective that reflects “dependency theory.” Both works are flawed by minor errors. For example, Barry's bibliography mistakenly attributes Jim Handy's Gift of the Devil to Sheldon Annis, although the title appears elsewhere under Handy. Calvert misidentifies a photograph of the volcano Agua near Antigua Guatemala as Fuego.

3. See Guatemala, edited by Susanne Jonas and David Tobis (New York: NACLA, 1974); and Susanne Jonas, “Guatemala: Land of Eternal Repression,” in Latin America: The Politics of Dependency, edited by James Chilcote and Joel Edelstein (Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman, 1974).