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A beauty that hurts : life and death in Guatemala

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    Publisher:
    Between the Lines, 2019
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    Publisher:
    Between the Lines, 2022
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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    Running Time: 13:29 hrs
    Narrator: W. George Lovell
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    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2024
    Note: This book was produced with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Lovell, W. George
    Date:
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    2019
    Summary:

    When A Beauty that Hurts was first published in 1995, Guatemala was still one of the world's most flagrant violators of human rights. Now that a measure of "peace" has come to the country, George Lovell revisits the land that he "fell in love with" to reassess and revise his classic account of the evil that was perpetrated by Guatemala's military-dominated state on its Maya peoples. A Beauty That Hurts frames the armed conflict that raged in Guatemala, off and on from 1960 to 1996, in historical, cultural, and political context. It also examines the shortcomings of the Peace Accord signed over two decades ago, concluding that the social and economic inequalities that triggered upheaval in the first place have yet to be addressed.

    Genre:
    History and geography, Political science
    Subject(s): Civil rights | Human rights | Mayas | Politics and government | Social conditions
    Original Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Between the Lines
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781771134545, 1771134542