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Abstract
After the installation of a civilian government in 1986, many Guatemalans hopes for a sharp break with the poverty and repression of the past. This updated edition examines the first half of Christian Democrat President Vinicio Cerezo's five-year term in office.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Title Page | iii | ||
| Copyright Page | iv | ||
| Table of Contents | v | ||
| List of Boxes and Tables | vii | ||
| Map | viii | ||
| Preface | ix | ||
| Introduction | xiii | ||
| 1. A Wealth of Poverty | 1 | ||
| The Quality of Life | 3 | ||
| The Roots of Poverty | 8 | ||
| Recipes for Impoverishment | 12 | ||
| The Poor Get Poorer 1980 – 1985 | 20 | ||
| The Cost of War | 23 | ||
| Policies of Hope | 27 | ||
| 2. A Separate World | 29 | ||
| The Fruit of the Land | 30 | ||
| Coffee: Bitter Harvest | 35 | ||
| The Cotton Club | 37 | ||
| The Sugar Kings | 41 | ||
| Beef Barons | 45 | ||
| Generals Inc. | 47 | ||
| Big Business | 51 | ||
| 3. The Civilised Right | 58 | ||
| What is Christian Democracy? | 59 | ||
| Christian Democracy in Latin America | 61 | ||
| The Quest for the third Way | 63 | ||
| The Quest for Government | 65 | ||
| Losing Links... | 69 | ||
| ...But Courting New Friends | 70 | ||
| Reassuring the Right | 74 | ||
| 4. Cerezo's Choice | 79 | ||
| The Need for Elections | 79 | ||
| The Best Hope | 82 | ||
| The Acceptable Alternative | 83 | ||
| 1986 — A Year of Disappointment | 85 | ||
| Low-Intensity Democracy | 88 | ||
| Maintaining the Fear | 94 | ||
| The Right to Buy | 96 | ||
| Stability without Development | 102 | ||
| The Radical Abroad | 107 | ||
| 5. Conclusion: Peace — An Impossible Dream? | 110 | ||
| Peace as an Absence of War? | 110 | ||
| Peace — for One Year? | 111 | ||
| 1986 — A Missed Opportunity? | 113 | ||
| Peace through the third Way? | 114 | ||
| 6. Epilogue: The Vanishing Centre | 116 | ||
| The Gramajo Vision | 119 | ||
| Prolonging the Agony | 123 | ||
| Security or Development? | 128 | ||
| Losing the third Plank | 130 | ||
| Tinkering with the System | 135 | ||
| War is War | 141 | ||
| Appendix: Communities in Resistance | 148 | ||
| Further Reading | 152 | ||
| Abbreviations | 153 | ||
| Notes | 157 | ||
| Index | 164 |