A Beauty That Hurts: Life and Death in Guatemala, Second Revised Edition

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Acal, 60. See also massacres agrarian reform, 132–135, 151–153 Aida, Carmen, 179 Albo, Christina, 167 Alirio Mejía, Fulvio, 52–53 Alpírez, Julio Roberto, 99–101 Alston, Philip, 166–167 Alvarado, Pedro de, 108–109 Americas Watch, 41 Amnesty International, 41, 60, 177 anacaFe (National Coffee Association), 171 Aníbal Guevara, Ángel 57, 68 Annals of the Cakchiquels, 108–109, 110 Anti-Communist Unification Party, 68 Antigua, 71, 75. See also Santiago de Guatemala Arbenz Guzmán, Jacobo, 132–135, 151, 179–180 Arbenz Vilanova, Jacobo, 135–136 Arden, Ontario, 144 Ardoch Algonquin First Nation and Allies, 146 Arévalo, Juan José, 132, 151 Army Day, 87–88 Arzú, Álvaro, 150, 152, 160, 162 Asturias, Arturo Herbruger, 67 Asturias, Miguel Ángel, 133 Authentic Nationalist Party, 68 Ball, Patrick, 164 Bámaca, Efraín, 100 Banrural (rural development bank), 178 Barillas, 7–8 Barillas, Luis, 173–174 Barrios, Justo Rufino, 6, 121–122, 128 Barrios Marroquín, Eugenia Beatriz, 39–40 Bastenier, M. A., 177 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 15 Berger, Oscar, 169–170, 173, 176 Bird Who Cleans the World, The, 26 Blom, Frans, 26 Bolaños, Juan, 77 Brol, Nicolás, 133 Buch Chiroy, Leonardo, 138, 143 Burgos-Debray, Elisabeth, 18–19 Burkitt, Robert, 125 Burns, E. Bradford, 120 Byers, Douglas, 26 Caal Xí, Darío, 43 Callejas, Manuel, 76 Cárdenas, Tomás de, 115–116 Carpio Nicolle, Jorge, 58 Carrera, Rafael, 121 Castañeda, Genaro: in Canada, 16, 149; in Guatemala, 3, 6–13; in Mexico, 13–14; in U.S., 14–16 Castañeda, Marcos, 4–5 Castillo Armas, Carlos, 134 Castillo Medrano, Manuel de Jesús, 177 Castresana, Carlos, 179 Catholic Church, 78, 88, 153–158 ceh (Comisión de Esclarecimiento index Histórico/un Truth Commission), 95, 158–162 censorship of the press, 59 Cerezo Arévalo, Vinicio, 55, 71, 72, 77–79, 83–84 Chajul, 22–23 Chiantla, 129–130 Chichicastenango, 138–143 Chile Pixtún, Apolinario, 144–147 Chimaltenango, 90, 145 Chimbal. See Santiago Chimaltenango Chiquimulilla, 12–13 cholera, 92. See also disease Christian Democracy Party, 77 Church of the World, 63 cia (Central Intelligence Agency), 99, 134, 180 cicig (International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala), 179 Ciudad Vieja, 42 civil defense patrols, 10–12, 27, 34, 44, 61, 96 Clinton, Bill, 162 Coatepeque, 92 coffee, 6, 122–123, 171 Colby, Benjamin, 125 Colom, Álvaro, 177–179 Colom, Sandra de, 178 Colom Argueta, Manuel, 177 colonization of Guatemala, 108–119 Comprehensive Human Rights Accord, 94–95 cOnavigua (widows’ support group), 32, 33, 35, 43 congregación, 111–112 conquest of Guatemala, 108–109 cOpmagua (Council of Maya Peoples of Guatemala), 168 Costa Rica, 82–83, 135, 154 criminal justice system, 165–167 Crossing Borders, 21 cuc (Committee for Campesino Unity), 58, 168 Cuchumatanes Mountains. See Sierra de los Cuchumatanes Cuilapa, 52 Cumaraswamy, Dato Param, 166 Davis, Mary Ellen, 42–6 Davis, Shelton H., 120, 127–128 de las Navas, Andrés, 116 de León, Alonso, 117 de León Argueta, Carlos, 167 de León Carpio, Ramiro, 91, 94, 98–99 de Lión, Luis, 164–165 Democratic Front Against Repression, 22 Devil’s Dream, The, 42–43 DeVine, Michael, 99 Diario Militar (death squad dossier), 163–165 Dieseldorf, Erwin Paul, 133 disease, 4–5, 92, 109–110 Doyle, Kate, 176 Draimin, Tim, 69 drug trafficking , 172, 179 Dulles, Allen, 134 Dulles, John Foster, 134 Dupras, Maurice, 69–70 egp (Guerrilla Army of the Poor), 10, 57, 73 elections, 57, 68–9, 71, 90, 169–170, 173– 174, 177 El Estor, 176 El Kanil: Man of Lightning, 26 Elliot, Elaine, 125 El Quiché, 73, 90, 154 El Salvador, 97 encomienda, 110–111 Encuentro por Guatemala (political party), 25 Escalón, Guillermo, 43 Escuintla, 39–40 Esquipulas II (Central American peace plan), 76 Famdegua (human rights group), 101 Federation of Councils of Kaqchikel Elders, 144 finca. See plantation farming Finca La Florida, 9 index 203 Finca San Francisco, 59 FOnapaZ (national development agency), 177 Frg (Frente Republicano Guatemalteco, political party), 169–170, 173–174 Fuentes, Carlos, 13, 112 Galeano, Eduardo, 142–143 gam (Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo, human rights group), 101 gana (Great National Alliance, political party), 173 García, Luis, 58 García Urízar, Oscar, 102 genocide, 59, 161–162 Gerardi, Juan, 153–158, 178 Goldman, Francisco, 153, 178 González, Magdalena, 32–38 Gordillo, Francisco Luis, 57, 59 Gordillo Galán, Lisandro, 126 Gramajo, H...