Terms
What term was used to separate the Mayans from the Guatemalans?
What is Ladino?
Who goes around Guatemala interviewing people of La Patria, La igualdad, etc.?
Who is Daniel Wilkinson?
What is owned/passed down to Sara Endler?
What is La Patria?
What does ORPA stand for?
What is the revolutionary Organization of the People in Arms.
Who is Javier?
Is a child of the revolution who was born to parents in the Agrarian community.
What is La Igualdad?
Elementary School
What is a guerrilla?
What is a person apart of a uprising group to fight back against a larger party
Who was the first guerrilla leader?
Who is Leonardo Castillo Johnson? (Nayito)
What happened to Rogelia Cruz? (Hint: pg. 227)
She was a former pageant winner who was abducted and killed. This was important because it was not a politically fueled action.
What is La Independencia?
Another plantation that was in La Igualdad
Who made La Independencia more different/difficult for the peasants working there?
Who is Don Mariano?
What did Castillo Flores do to aid the peasants? (Hint: pg 220-221)
Creation of an organization that helped peasants organize political activities that they couldn't do on their own.
What is the NPC?
National Peasant Confederation meant to organize peasant unions.
Who was one of the revolutionary leaders that was in power during the Arbenz period that Javier recalled? (Hint: From Reading for Today, pg. 219)
Who is Don Cayo/Cayo Ochoa?
When was armed struggle deemed a "normal" way for political change to occur?
1979.