The Quiet Revolutionaries: Seeking Justice in Guatemala

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The last three decades of the twentieth century brought relentless waves of death squads, political kidnappings, and other traumas to the people of Guatemala. Many of us fled the country to escape the violence. Yet, at the same moment, a well-liked movement for justice brought together unlikely bands of in the back of-the-scenes heroes, blurring ethnic, geographic, and even class lines.

The Quiet Revolutionaries is drawn from interviews conducted by Frank Afflitto in the early 1990s with more than eighty survivors of the state-sanctioned violence. Gathered under ceaselessly life-threatening circumstances, the observations and recollections of these inspiring women and men form a unique standpoint on collective efforts to produce change in politics, law, and public consciousness. Examined from numerous perspectives, from sociological to historical, their stories form a wealthy ethnography. Even as it’s still too soon to tell whether stable, long-term democracy will prevail in Guatemala, the successes of these fascinating individuals provide a unique understanding of revolutionary resistance.

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