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    named Taylor, who was abruptly given a Native American child on a blind trip to Tucson, Arizona. In this town, she discovers new acquaintances of which she experienced both good and bad incidences, while concurrently trying to construct a proper upbringing for the child. In the chapter,”Ismene” Taylor converses with one of her acquaintances, Estevan, an illegal immigrant who escaped from Guatemala. He states the events of the kidnapping of his daughter for the defiance of the

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    the following information in Menchú's testimony. In her testimony Rigoberta states that her father was burned alive when the army attacked the Spanish Embassy he was occupying to protest human rights abuses, an occurrence that is widely known in Guatemala. Stoll believes Menchú's account of the events at the embassy is more balanced than most others. Rigoberta also stated that her mother was detained, raped, tortured, killed, and her body was mutilated by the Guatemalan army. Rigoberta Menchú's horrific

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    The Massacre At El Mozote

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    the women and raped girls as young as 10 years-old as well as gather the children into a room and slaughter them by stabbing or shooting them. At the end of the El Mozote Massacre, the families that were able to escape or that were out of town came back to a village full of carnage and their homes destroyed. The total death count is still debated until this day but it is estimated that the Salvadoran military murdered around a thousand people at El Mozote. This book illustrates several key issues

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    Guatemalan Genocide

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    more and more protests and uprisings in the capital and the southwest part of the nation became very frequent, and overtime, very violent. The Peace Pledge Union expressed a dramatic and detailed example of the violent acts that the military of Guatemala practiced on Indian natives in search of subversives, Children were often beaten against walls, or thrown alive into pits where the bodies of adults were later thrown; they were also tortured and raped. Victims of all ages often had their

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    tribes existed from about 400 BC until around 1524 when they were taken over by the Spanish conquistadors (Sharer p.3). They occupied three separate areas of land. The Southern area covers present day Guatemala. The central area stretched from what is now Tabasco to northern Guatemala. Finally the central region makes up a lot of the southern portion of Mexico (Coe p.31). The Maya’s believed that the universe was not the first, but the 7th. Floods destroyed all the other worlds. This one

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    changed since arriving in Mexico. Her perspective on life has changed and she is no long completely anxious of death, boys, and germs. When in Pablo’s village, Ángel and Sophie spend an abundance of time together. She is no longer nervous to talk to him and they have even developed a flirtatious relationship. As time goes on and Ángel has to leave for Guatemala something astonishing happens. As Ángel and Sophie were talking in the meadow, they began to “kiss in the meadow, [she] had the feeling of being

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    Essay on Maya

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    Maya The ancient Maya were a group of American Indian peoples who lived in southern Mexico, particularly the present-day states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatan, and Quintana Roo, and in Belize, Guatemala, and adjacent Honduras. Their descendants, the modern Maya, live in the same regions today, in both highlands and lowlands, from cool highland plains ringed by volcanos to deep tropical rain forests. Through the region runs a single major river system, the Apasion-Usumacinta and its

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    of Contrasts and Compassion There are plenty of good things to be said about El Salvador, the Latin American country that sits in the heart of Central America, surrounded by volcanic mountains, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and a Pacific coast of startlingly beautiful beaches and rustic fishing villages. Unfortunately, we rarely hear them, and, in fact, the last time anything truly positive about the country made the mainstream news in the U.S. was when President Barak Obama visited with his family

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    Leobardo Espinoza Jr Prof. Stathis Kalyvas PLSC 359: Violence & Civil Strife Final Paper April 26th, 2015 Guatemala & Vietnam: Analyzing Civil Conflicts Studying civil wars can be a very complicated endeavor. This is because the topic is very difficult to break down. When scholars study civil wars, there are many variables that can’t be controlled that can skew data. This makes finding interactions between different variables more difficult. Their complex entanglement, in addition to there being

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    violence. Victor Montejo lived in a society that was a very poor area. The village was located in Guatemala. Though he lived outside of this village it is where he spent most of his time since he was the schoolmaster. The people in village were very poor and believed in community as a way of life. The villagers were out to help everyone not just

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