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  Help with resources
  Help with resources on NENTON, Huehuetenango or Homosexuality among the Maya in Guatemala, new novel on todos santos by Deborah Clearman and help with proposed film on “chicken buses” in Guatemala.
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  Renta Presunta para Profesionales
  Aclarando varias dudas de nuestros suscriptores trataremos sobre el tema de las Rentas presuntas: Cuando escuchamos la palabra presunto nos referimos a algo que se supone que se presume o se sospecha, ahora que estamos cerca de presentar la declaración Jurada Anual de ISR la ley del Impuesto sobre la Renta obliga a presentar.
  cerca de 1 año | Comentarios: 0
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  After the Coup: An Ethnographic Reframing of Guatemala 1954
  This exceptional collection revisits the aftermath of the 1954 coup that ousted the democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz. Contributors frame the impact of 1954 not only in terms of the liberal reforms and coffee revolutions of the nineteenth century, but also in terms of post-1954 U.S. foreign policy and the genocide of the 1970s and 1980s. 
  cerca de 1 año | Comentarios: 0
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  Securing the City: Neoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala
  Unprecedented crime rates have made Guatemala City one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Following a peace process that ended Central America’s longest and bloodiest civil war and impelled the transition from a state-centric economy to the global free market, Guatemala’s neoliberal moment is now strikingly evident in the practices and politics of security. 
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  What Does It Matter Now? The U.S. Public Health Service STD Inoculation Studies in Guatemala, 1946-48
  In 1946, the world was transfixed by the Nuremberg Trials, stunned by Nazi crimes against humanity that included grisly experimentation on concentration-camp inmates under the direction of Josef Mengele, the SS physician infamous as the “angel of death.”
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  What's Happening with the Forced Evictions in Polochic
  Company owners, army, violently evict 14 Q’eqchi’Maya communities in the Polochic.
  cerca de 1 año | Comentarios: 0
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  Mesa Pública: “Remembering the Past for Building the Future” with Jean-Marie Simon (RADIO)
  Writer and photographer, Jean-Marie Simon joins us to discuss her book “Guatemala: Eternal Primavera, Eterna Tiranía [Eternal Spring: Eternal Tyranny].” We’ll speak to Simon about her work documenting human rights violations during Guatemala’s civil war in the 1980s, how her photos created a historical memory of the armed conflict and her use of the website Kickstarter to fund her new book’s publication. On eve of Guatemala’s Peace Accords, we have a conversation with Simon about what the future holds for a country where many still do not acknowledge its past.
  hace 5 meses | Comentarios: 0
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  Next Week on Mesa Pública “The Power of Testimonies and Memory in Remaking the Past” with Laurie Levinger
  “The Power of Testimonies and Memory in Remaking the Past” with Laurie Levinger. A retired social worker and writer, Laurie Levinger joins us to discuss her book “¿Cual Guerra? Testimonios de Sobrevivientes Mayas [What War? Testimonies of Maya Survivors].” We’ll speak to Levinger about her work recording testimonies of students who were impacted by Guatemala’s civil war. Levinger will discuss how her book helps create a historical memory of the armed conflict in aims to bring hope for the future. Recollecting the past, we have a conversation with Levinger about the importance of documenting first-hand accounts of young survivors as a way of reminding us of the true cost of war.
  hace 4 meses | Comentarios: 0
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  President Pérez Molina’s First Week in Office Provides a Glimpse of the Four Years to Come
  Pérez Molina's first week in office has been marked by some unexpected announcements and a seemingly schizophrenic approach to governance.
  hace 4 meses | Comentarios: 0
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  TEDXGuatemalacity 2012
    Tenemos ya un grupo muy activo viendo detalles de ubicacion, conferencias y otros encabezados por Manuel Aguilar que es el unico TED Fellow que tenemos en Guatemala. 
  hace 4 meses | Comentarios: 0