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Volume 45 - July 1988

Contents

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Archival News

Inter-American Notes

Archival Article

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Research Article

  • Land, Labor and Violence in Highland Guatemala: San Juan Ixcoy(Huehuetenango), 1893-1945

  • David McCreery
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 December 2015, pp. 237-249

  • “ A few days ago,” reported the newspaper El Bien Público (Quezaltenango), “in the town of San Juan Ixcoy…the Indians rose up, killing the ladinos, including several habilitadores (labor recruiters)”. As first news of this soon-to-be famous massacre filtered out of the Cuchumatán mountains, it became clear that some of the country's highland Indians had struck back, as many ladinos long had feared they might, against the intrusions of the rapidly expanding coffee economy. The sanjuaneros' tumulto was, in fact, simply a particularly dramatic instance of a struggle played out in various forms throughout the western highlands of Guatemala in the one hundred years after 1850. With the onset of the new crop of coffee, export monoculture threatened the integrity of Indian peasant agriculture as no crop before had done. If, in this case, the immediate target of the Indians' wrath was a hapless group of habilitadores, the more serious underlying problem for the indigenous population was access to and control of land. It is on land, and particularly on the land of San Juan Ixcoy as an example of the struggle, that this paper will concentrate.

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