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Autor: Denise Glasbeek
Rok vydání: 2002
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Zdroj: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research. 8:203-207
ISSN: 2151-9668
1326-0219
DOI: 10.1080/13260219.2002.10431776
Popis: In Guatemala, where military dictatorship had closed all meaningful political competition since 1954, the political opening in 1986 was, in many ways, an incomprehensible moment. For the first decade following the political opening, scholars' attempts to analyse the depth and meaning of change in Guatemala were complicated by frenetic events that often seemed to contradict one another. Part of the confusion surrounding the meaning and direction of Guatemala's political opening stemmed from the fact that the civil war fought between the guerrillas and the military since 1962 did not end in 1986. It was not until December, 1996, nearly eleven years after the first elected civilian government took office, that peace accords between the Guatemalan civilian government and the guerrillas were signed. Among their most important functions, the accords outlined mechanisms for broadening political participation in a formally recognised plural society. In the immediate aftermath of the signing of the accord...
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