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By Maria Helena Rueda, Gabriela Polit Dueñas

This quantity contains contributions of students from a number of fields - the social sciences, journalism, the arts and the humanities - whose paintings bargains insightful and leading edge how you can comprehend the devastating and exceptional different types of violence at present skilled in Latin the USA. As an interdisciplinary exercise, it bargains an array of views that give a contribution to ongoing debates within the learn of violence within the sector.

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10. 11. 12. 13. A rturo A r i as y veracidad de un testimonio,” for conservative viewpoints on the Guatemalan war. URNG stands for Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity in its Spanish acronym. It grouped all three guerrilla organizations—the Guerrilla Army of the Poor (EGP), the Revolutionary Organization of People in Arms (ORPA), and the Rebel Armed Forces (FAR)— and included a symbolic presence of the Guatemalan Workers Party (Communist). See Gustavo Lins Ribeiro (2006). ” Peláez’s Memorias rebeldes contra el olvido: Paasantzila Txumb’al Ti’ Sortzeb’al K’u’l itself states that no other text gathers the lived experiences of gendered and ethnicized subjects within a clandestine military structure (18).

10. 11. 12. 13. A rturo A r i as y veracidad de un testimonio,” for conservative viewpoints on the Guatemalan war. URNG stands for Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity in its Spanish acronym. It grouped all three guerrilla organizations—the Guerrilla Army of the Poor (EGP), the Revolutionary Organization of People in Arms (ORPA), and the Rebel Armed Forces (FAR)— and included a symbolic presence of the Guatemalan Workers Party (Communist). See Gustavo Lins Ribeiro (2006). ” Peláez’s Memorias rebeldes contra el olvido: Paasantzila Txumb’al Ti’ Sortzeb’al K’u’l itself states that no other text gathers the lived experiences of gendered and ethnicized subjects within a clandestine military structure (18).

Whereas all the quotes cited on Peláez’s book are in Spanish, and are also the direct transcription of these women’s words, it should not be forgotten that they are Ixil women, for whom 28 A rturo A r i as Spanish is their second language, if not their third or fourth. Their own Spanish is the product of an intercultural dialogue, and of the intersubjectivity of Mayas and Ladinos, that is, their relationality in questions of interethnic dialogue, one that is mediated by the phantasm of race. In the eyes of many Ladinos, the grammatical mistakes made by Mayas when speaking Spanish chart the effects of racialized difference in the production of their own imaginary.

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