The Guatemalan Military Project: A Violence Called Democracy

by Jennifer Schirmer

Overview

Winner of the 1999 PIOOM Human Rights Award ""The Guatemalan Military Project is a remarkable achievement. As any journalist or diplomat who has spent time in Guatemala will attest, no group is more difficult to penetrate than the Guatemalan armed

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812217308
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date:	12/27/1999
Series:	Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
Pages:	368
Sales rank:	717,447
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 9.21(d)

About the Author

Jennifer Schirmer is a lecturer in social studies at Harvard University. She is also an associate with the Program on Non-Violent Sanctions and Cultural Survival at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard.

Editorial Reviews

"The Guatemalan Military Project is a remarkable achievement. As any journalist or diplomat who has spent time in Guatemala will attest, no group is more difficult to penetrate than the Guatemalan armed forces. Over a period of a decade, Jennifer Schirmer succeeded in getting more than fifty Guatemalan officers to speak with uncustomary candor about their actions."—Larry Rohter, New York Times

"[An] indispensable account of the history of the Guatemalan military's rise to power and of the construction of a thoroughly militarized 'façade democracy'."—Journal of Latin American Studies

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