“Always watched, always controlled”: Forced displacement and concentration of Poqomchi' Maya women during the war in Guatemala, 1982-1988
The model villages in the department of Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, were spaces designed to concentrate and re-educate the population, implemented by the military following an intense campaign of massacres, forced displacements, and persecutions that began in 1978 and intensified around 1983. In this c...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Estudios Sociológicos |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:oai.estudiossociologicos.colmex.mx:article/2522 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://estudiossociologicos.colmex.mx/index.php/es/article/view/2522 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Guatemala model villages Poqomchi' population forced displacement countersubversive war aldeas modelo población Poqomchi' desplazamiento forzado guerra contrasubversiva |
| Sumario: | The model villages in the department of Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, were spaces designed to concentrate and re-educate the population, implemented by the military following an intense campaign of massacres, forced displacements, and persecutions that began in 1978 and intensified around 1983. In this context, the control of Maya women's bodies and labor was crucial for intimidating and subjugating the inhabitants in order to implement national development and security policies that aligned with the plantation regime. This article examines the experiences of Poqomchi' women from the community of San Lucas Chiacal regarding the events during their forced displacement, their confinement in model villages, and the implications of these experiences on current community dynamics. |
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