Between Two Armies in the Ixil Towns of Guatemala

By: David Stoll

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Paperback | 20 January 1994 | Edition Number 1

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This book challenges how the human rights movement thinks about a country notorious for rightwing terrorism. David Stoll's reinterpretation of the civil war in Guatemala focuses on the Ixil Mayas of the Western highlands. Based on their testimony, he attributes Ixil support for guerrillas in the early 1980s not to revolutionary impluses but to dual violence -- the coercive pressures of military confrontation which Ixils describe as "living between two fires." As a study of a peasant neutralism under crossfire, "Between Two Armies" questions whether confrontational forms of human rights organizing reflect the wishes of survivors trying to rebuild civil society, that is, political space to make their own decisions.

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List of Tables
Preface
La Situacion	p. 2
Living Between Two Armies	p. 7
A Revisionist Account of the Violence	p. 14
Revolution in the Counterrevolution?	p. 21
Ixils and Ladinos	p. 26
The Second Conquest of Ixil Country	p. 28
Schoolteachers and Plantation Owners	p. 42
The Catholic Action Revolt Against Gerontocracy	p. 46
The Emergence of Evangelicals	p. 53
The Revolutionary Party and the Christian Democrats	p. 55
Reform Without Revolution?	p. 57
The Violence Comes to Ixil Country	p. 60
The Army of the Poor Comes to the Ixcan Jungle	p. 65
The Cotzalenos Who Went to Greet the EGP	p. 68
Assassinating the "Tiger of the Ixcan"	p. 71
Fonseca's Betrayal	p. 74
The Death Squads Come to Nebaj	p. 75
Confronting the Army	p. 79
Civilians as Surrogates	p. 82
Solidarity Explanations for the Violence	p. 84
Stripping the Blossoms from the Tree	p. 88
The Civil Patrols, Rios Montt, and the Defeat of the EGP	p. 92
Benedicto's Visit	p. 96
The Civil Patrol in Cotzal	p. 99
The Civil Patrol in Chajul	p. 103
The Civil Patrol in Nebaj	p. 106
The General Who Was Born Again	p. 107
From Civil Patrol to Civil War	p. 113
How Much Support Did the EGP Have?	p. 117
Abandoning the EGP	p. 121
Why the Army of the Poor Lost Support	p. 126
From Montana to Model Village	p. 130
The Pursuit of Neutralism	p. 132
The Army of the Poor	p. 135
The Guatemalan Army	p. 139
The Civil Patrol	p. 141
Life in the Zones of Refuge	p. 146
The Continuing Army Offensive	p. 151
The Special Commission for Aid to Refugees	p. 153
The Resettlement Villages	p. 156
Prolonged Popular War	p. 161
The Holy Ghost in Northern Quiche	p. 166
The Suppression of the Catholic Church	p. 169
The Evangelical Refuge	p. 174
The Chaos of Congregationalism	p. 179
The Rebirth of the Catholic Church	p. 188
A Religion of Survival	p. 192
The Ixil Recovery of Nebaj	p. 196
The Decline of Ladino Power	p. 199
Labor Contractors	p. 202
Promoters and Teachers	p. 207
Promoters Take Over the Town Hall	p. 212
Patronage and Protest Under Army Rule	p. 216
Ecological Crisis in Ixil Country	p. 222
The Impact of the Violence on Population	p. 227
The Impact of the Violence on Land Tenure	p. 233
The Effects of Finca Partition	p. 241
The Deterioration of the Maize-based Subsistence Economy	p. 244
Ixil Attitudes Toward Family Size	p. 248
Escaping the Crisis	p. 252
The Struggle to Rebuild Civil Society in Nebaj	p. 258
The New Reformed Standard	p. 263
From Costumbre to Gospel to Video	p. 271
The Ixil-Ladino Detente	p. 276
Power Structure and Popular Organization Under Army Rule	p. 281
Civil Patrols and Civil Society	p. 287
The Communities of Population in Resistance	p. 289
Human Rights Comes to Nebaj	p. 294
The Public Secret and Human Rights	p. 298
Let the Dead Bury the Dead?	p. 304
Notes	p. 314
Bibliography	p. 353
Index	p. 369
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