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Guatemalan author William Spindler's article, “ Magic realism: a typology ,” suggests that there are three kinds of magic realism, which however are by no means incompatible: European ‘ metaphysical ’ magic realism, with its sense of estrangement and the uncanny, exemplified by Kafka ’ s fiction ; ‘ ontological ’ magical realism, characterized by ‘ matter-of-factness ’ in relating ‘ inexplicable ’ events ; and ‘ anthropological ’ magical realism, where a Native worldview is set side by side with the Western rational worldview.
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Winners of the award have included: musician Peter Gabriel ( 2008 ), Nelson Mandela ( 2006 ), the Irish rock band U2 ( 2005 ), Mary Robinson and Hilda Morales Trujillo ( a Guatemalan women's rights activist ) ( 2004 ) and the author and public intellectual Václav Havel ( 2003 ).
As Carpentier became acquainted with those among the arts community he had several encounters to meet other famous authors such as Pablo Neruda, who had sent him a draft of his book “ Residencia el la Tierra ” to review ; Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias, whose work on pre-Columbian mythology influenced his writing ; and Pablo Picasso, an introduction made possible through Carpentier's connection with friends in the arts.
The principal figure in his administration and author of his policies towards external relations and freedom of creed was the Guatemalan lawyer Lorenzo Montúfar y Rivera, noted advocated of anti-clericalism.
The book was written in 1690 and is regarded as one of the most important works of Guatemalan history, and is the first such book to have been written by a criollo author.
The Book of Destiny: Unlocking the Secrets of the Ancient Mayans and the Prophecy of 2012, by Guatemalan author Carlos Barrios, is another recent contribution to this genre.
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This article in general is written from a perspective that fails to recognize the plights and contributions of the Guatemalan Indians.
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The Chief of Staff of the Guatemalan army described his actions as an “ act of warning throughout the Republic for any disorders of this nature .”
The 1954 Guatemalan coup d ’ état ( 18 – 27 June 1954 ) was the CIA covert operation that deposed President Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán ( 1950 – 54 ), with Operation PBSUCCESS — paramilitary invasion by an anti-Communist “ army of liberation ”.
From the dismissive cultural perspective of the CIA, the socio-economic development of Guatemalan society effected by the Árbenz Government was only “ an intensely nationalistic program of progress colored by the touchy, anti-foreign inferiority complex of the Banana republic ”; thus the geopolitical opinion of the US State Department, wherein the Inter-American Affairs Bureau officer Charles R. Burrows explained the perceived threat to US interests:
The liberationist propaganda and disinformation misrepresented the VOL as the spontaneous voice of domestic, counter-revolutionary Guatemalan patriots who opposed “ the Communism of the Árbenz Government ”.
In 1960, three years later, began the 36-year Guatemalan Civil War ( 1960 – 96 ), featuring brutal counterinsurgency operations and massacres that conflated historical ethnic conflict between ladino ( mestizo ) Guatemalans and ethnic Maya Guatemalans, who were accused of being either communists or “ fellow travellers ”, passive communist sympathizers.
On 24 May 1954, the US Navy launched Operation HARDROCK BAKER, a blockade of Guatemala, wherein submarines and surface ships intercepted and boarded every ship in Guatemalan waters, and forcefully searched it for Guatemala-bound weapons that might support the “ Communist Árbenz Government ”.
From Florida, The Voice of Liberation radio station, which claimed to be broadcasting from the Guatemalan jungle, transmitted music, “ news ”, disinformation, and anti – Árbenz propaganda.
Hence, the importance of propaganda, of the co-optation of the Guatemalan military-officer corps to the usurpation of Guatemalan representative democracy, by overthrowing the “ Communist government ” of President Árbenz.
The CIA exerted air power against the Árbenz Government with a “ Liberation Air Force ” of US military and mercenary personnel who conducted air raids against Guatemalan military targets and cities.
A case officer said that the Central Intelligence Agency did little to hide knowledge of its paramilitary invasion of Guatemala from the American public, “ The figleaf was very transparent, threadbare .” The New York Times celebrated the Guatemalan coup d ’ état as “ the first successful anti-Communist revolt since the last war .” Moreover, in the same newspaper, Milton Brackersan misinformed readers, that “ there is no evidence that the United States provided material aid or guidance ” to the anti-Communist freedom fighters, and that “ the overturn meets only part of the problem of Communism.
International opinion reviled the Guatemalan coup d ’ état, the French and British press, Le Monde and The Times, attacked the United States ’ “ modern form of economic colonialism ”.
In the 1980s, after having killed the “ enemies of the state ” identified in every social, political, and economic institution of the Guatemalan nation — including the intelligentsia and the socialite classes — for five years, the military assumed virtually absolute power of government in Guatemala.
In retrospect, Richard M. Bissell, Jr., assistant to the CIA Director, denied that the 1954 Guatemalan coup d ’ état resulted from the conflation of private, multinational, business interests and US Government foreign policy ; he said that there “ is absolutely no reason to believe ” that the Eisenhower Administration ’ s ( 1953 – 61 ) desire to help the United Fruit Company had “ any significant role ” in deciding to depose the elected Guatemalan government of President Jacobo Árbenz.
According to Guatemalan labour law, domestic work is “ subject neither to a working time statute nor to regulations on the maximum number of working hours in a day ”.
To illustrate these development strategies, three cases of land use intensification are presented: horticultural production in the Guatemalan highlands, coffee production in Honduras, the “ farmer to farmer ” movement in Nicaragua.
Case number CSI-1998-00005 p. 5 “ reconnaissance flights were made on 27 and 28 of October ( 1960 ) over the Swan Islands and the Guatemalan Caribbean coast — areas where the “ invasion " forces are allegedly being assembled .”
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The largest population of Guatemalans is in Los Angeles, but there are also established Guatemalan communities in Dallas, Houston, Miami, New York City, San Diego, San Francisco area, and Washington, DC.
In addition, there are two consular agencies in Acayucan and in Arriaga ; in order to assist Guatemalan nationals who traverse Mexico in order to reach the United States.
Except for the Petén region and the Guatemalan highlands, Spanish control over Yucatán itself was effectively in place by 1547 even though as late as 1550, there were only some 1, 550 Spanish in all of the colonial provinces.
Most were Guatemalan and almost all from Central America but there were also people from Sri Lanka and Nepal.
* Note that there is no language called " Guatemalan ".
As the Guatemalan Civil War drew to a close, he returned to his country and was appointed a magistrate of the Constitutional Court ; he was serving there during President Jorge Serrano's attempted " self-coup " of 25 May 1993, when the Court was instrumental in preserving the country's constitutional order, preventing a military takeover, and installing Ramiro de León as caretaker president.
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Among the Hispanic population, 6. 8 % are Mexican, 0. 5 % Puerto Rican, 0. 4 % Salvadoran, 0. 3 % Peruvian, 0. 3 % Guatemalan.
There are also Guatemalan immigrants living abroad in Canada, Venezuela, Argentina, Europe, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Japan, South Korea, India and Australia as well.
There are a number of Guatemalan bus and van transport companies that most travelers use to get from the airport in Guatemala City to Antigua, Lake Atitlan in the Western Highlands of Guatemala and Monterrico on the Pacific coast.
Listed below are the 28 categories tabulated in the 2000 United States Census: Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican Republic ; Central American: Costa Rican, Guatemalan, Honduran, Nicaraguan, Panamanian, Salvadoran, Other Central American ; South American: Argentinian, Bolivian, Chilean, Colombian, Ecuadorian, Paraguayan, Peruvian, Uruguayan, Venezuelan, Other South American ; Other Hispanic or Latino: Spaniard, Spanish, Spanish American, All other Hispanic or Latino.
Among the Hispanic population, 18. 1 % are Mexican, 1. 9 % Salvadoran, 1. 3 % Guatemalan, and 0. 7 % Puerto Rican.
Guatemalan celebrations of the Day of the Dead are highlighted by the construction and flying of giant kites in addition to the traditional visits to grave sites of ancestors.
The oldest written myths date from the 16th century and are found in historical sources from the Guatemalan Highlands.
From Chiapas and the western Guatemalan Highlands comes the tale of Younger Brother and his jealous Elder Brethren: Youngest One becomes the Sun, his mother becomes the Moon, and the Elder Brethren are transformed into wild pigs and other forest animals.
Variants of the generic style are found in a number of Maya region sites, including Tikal, Kaminaljuyu, Copan, Becan, and Oxkintok, and particularly in the Petén Basin and the central Guatemalan highlands.
Among the Hispanic population, 18. 1 % are Mexican, 1. 9 % Salvadoran, 1. 3 % Guatemalan, and 0. 7 % Puerto Rican.
Among the Hispanic population, 17. 3 % are Mexican, 1. 0 % are Salvadoran, 0. 6 % Puerto Rican, and 0. 4 % Guatemalan.
Guatemalan pancakes are called Panqueques.
Four closely related North American bird forms — the eastern Myrtle Warbler ( ssp coronata ), its western counterpart, Audubon's Warbler ( ssp group auduboni ), the northwest Mexican Black-fronted Warbler ( ssp nigrifrons ), and the Guatemalan Goldman's Warbler ( ssp goldmani )— are periodically lumped as the Yellow-rumped Warbler ( Setophaga coronata ).
Guatemalan traditions are much more closely based on the instrument, and on ancient Mayan music, than other Central American countries.
In the five-square-block area where most of the commercial establishments are located, one can choose from a variety of ethnic cuisines, among them Spanish, Ethiopian, Guatemalan, Mexican, Italian, Dutch, Vietnamese, Ghanaian, Cajun, Brazilian, Palestinian, Peruvian, Indian, Israeli, Thai, Lebanese, Eritrean, and Chinese.
The language used in the document is Yucatecan, a group of Mayan languages that includes Yucatec, Itza, Lacandon and Mopan ; these languages are distributed across the Yucatán Peninsula, including lowland Chiapas, Belize and the Guatemalan department of Petén.
Club Social y Deportivo Municipal, also known as Municipal or Los Rojos ( the Reds ), are a Guatemalan professional football club based in Guatemala City.
They are the only Guatemalan club ever to win the CONCACAF Champions ' Cup, a title they obtained in 1974.
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