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La Patria Del Criollo: An Interpretation Of Colonial Guatemala,Used
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This translation of Severo Martnez Pelezs La Patria del Criollo, first published in Guatemala in 1970, makes a classic, controversial work of Latin American history available to Englishlanguage readers. Martnez Pelez was one of Guatemalas foremost historians and a political activist committed to revolutionary social change. La Patria del Criollo is his scathing assessment of Guatemalas colonial legacy. Martnez Pelez argues that Guatemala remains a colonial society because the conditions that arose centuries ago when imperial Spain held sway have endured. He maintains that economic circumstances that assure prosperity for a few and deprivation for the majority were altered neither by independence in 1821 nor by liberal reform following 1871. The few in question are an elite group of criollos, people of Spanish descent born in Guatemala; the majority are predominantly Maya Indians, whose impoverishment is shared by many mixedrace Guatemalans.Martnez Pelez asserts that the coffee dictatorships were the full and radical realization of criollo notions of the patria. This patria, or homeland, was one that criollos had wrested from Spaniards in the name of independence and taken control of based on claims of liberal reform. He contends that since labor is needed to make land productive, the exploitation of labor, particularly Indian labor, was a necessary complement to criollo appropriation. His depiction of colonial reality is bleak, and his portrayal of Spanish and criollo behavior toward Indians unrelenting in its emphasis on cruelty and oppression. Martnez Pelez felt that the grim past he documented surfaces each day in an equally grim present, and that confronting the past is a necessary step in any effort to improve Guatemalas woes. An extensive introduction situates La Patria del Criollo in historical context and relates it to contemporary issues and debates.
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