Guatemala’s genocide trial and the nexus of racism and counterinsurgency

Oglesby, Elizabeth; Nelson, Diane M.

doi:10.1080/14623528.2016.1186436

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“…Importantly, rural Maya communities have also been subjected to organized violence and discrimination, most notably during the thirty-six-year civil war. However, since the end of the war in 1996, peace agreement provisions to alleviate inequality have been poorly implemented (Oglesby and Nelson 2016), and efforts to restructure primary health care have been largely ineffective, with continued over-investment in specialty and hospital-based health care. As a result, in Guatemala, hospital-level resources exist to treat end-stage complications of chronic diseases, but for most communities, preventive and early treatments are largely unavailable (Chary and Rohloff 2015).…”

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Moore¹,

Baird²,

Rohloff³

2019

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In response to the rising rate of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in Guatemala, the public health system established a national community-based dialysis program to enable people living in rural areas to complete treatment in their homes. Here we explore how this newly available, life-prolonging technology has altered local worlds by transforming ESRD from an acute, life-ending illness into a managed chronic condition with an uncertain trajectory. Through case studies, we describe how living with dialysis influences family relations and caregiving in rural Guatemala. We find that dialysis interacts with an insufficient health care system, one that avoids life-ending complications but does not sufficiently manage lifealtering symptoms. In addition, the need to care for people with ESRD for an uncertain amount of time may disrupt and strain family-based caregiving networks. Amid this meager health and social welfare infrastructure, life on dialysis exacerbates the chronic insecurity and structural inequality of life in postwar Guatemala. As both life and illness are prolonged through dialysis, the unceasing demands of the treatment and illness strain the webs of obligation and care that Guatemalan families and communities have developed to adapt to their decentralized and fragmented public health care system.

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2019

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“…Beginning in 2003, a controversial and highly contested National Reparations Programme (PNR) was implemented by the Guatemalan state to provide mostly monetary compensation to some victims of the war (Crosby and Lykes, 2019: 135-139). Additionally, a 'judicial spring' has seen a number of high-level prosecutions, including the 2013 genocide trial of former de facto head of state General Efraı ´n Rı ´os Montt (Oglesby and Nelson, 2016) and the 2016 Sepur Zarco trial of two former members of the Guatemalan military for sexual violence as a crime against humanity (Impunity Watch and the Alliance, 2017).…”

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Redressing Injustice, Reframing Resilience: Mayan Women’s Persistence and Protagonism as Resistance

Lykes¹,

Crosby²,

Medrano³

2021

Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice

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Young, adult, and elderly [Mayan] women in Guatemala are making changes in their lives, to generate wellbeing and good living for themselves, other women, and their communities. Despite all the inequities, oppressions, violences of a system that prioritizes injustice and death, there is enough joy, creativity, desire for life, for being and becoming, and as such, women are defending life, territory and body.

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“…Some celebrated the trial as a move toward official and public recognition that the state had committed genocide. Others vehemently opposed this framing as unnecessary, unfair, or unpatriotic, and many feared that such a challenge to powerful forces in Guatemala could have violent consequences or prove destabilizing, particularly because the sitting president of Guatemala, Otto Pérez Molina, had commanded army operations in the Ixil region during the same period (see Oglesby and Nelson ). Internationally, analysts looked to the trial to see whether genocide could be tried in a domestic court.…”

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“…, 660). Even after the verdict was annulled, the trial provided the impetus for other trials of high‐level Guatemalan officials, such as in the Sepur Zarco case in 2016, which sentenced military officials for sexual slavery (Oglesby and Nelson ).…”

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Translated Justice? The Ixil Maya and the 2013 Trial of José Efraín Ríos Montt for Genocide in Guatemala

García

2019

American Anthropologist

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This article takes an ethnographically engaged, discourse-centered approach to questions of representation and cultural difference in democratic process in postwar Guatemala. When José Efraín Ríos Montt became the first former head of state convicted of genocide within his own country, in 2013, Ixil Maya witnesses who testified against him became international human rights icons. However, the trial was marked by difficulties in communication between Ixil witnesses and non-Ixil lawyers, judges, and observers. "Miscommunications" resulted from diverging forms of speech that are deeply connected to different identities and ways of experiencing and understanding history. Discursive expectations within the courtroom limited recognition of Ixil ways of speaking and, consequently, of Ixil subjects. These expectations also obscured Ixil contestations to systems of power both inside and outside the courtroom. This analysis calls attention to the central role of language in processes of justice and political activism in solidarity with marginalized populations. [discourse-centered approach, genocide trial, Ixil, Maya, Guatemala]RESUMEN Este artículo, toma una aproximación centrada en el discurso, etnográficamente comprometida con cuestiones de representación y diferencia cultural en procesos democráticos en la Guatemala de postguerra. Cuando José Efraín Ríos Montt se convirtió en el primer exjefe de estado condenado por genocidio en su propio país, en 2013, los testigos mayas ixiles quienes testificaron en su contra se convirtieron eníconos internacionales de derechos humanos. Sin embargo, el juicio fue marcado por dificultades en la comunicación entre los testigos ixiles y los abogados, jueces y observadores no-ixiles. Los "errores de comunicación" resultaron de las formas divergentes de hablar que están profundamente conectadas a diferentes identidades y formas de experimentar y entender la historia. Las expectativas discursivas dentro de la sala del tribunal limitaron el reconocimiento de las formas de habla ixil y, consecuentemente, de los sujetos ixiles. Estas expectativas también oscurecieron las contestaciones de los ixiles a los sistemas de poder tanto dentro como fuera de la sala del tribunal. Este análisis llama la atención al rol central del lenguaje en procesos de justicia y activismo político en solidaridad con poblaciones marginadas.[aproximación centrada en discurso, juicio por genocidio, Ixil, Maya, Guatemala]

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Guatemala’s genocide trial and the nexus of racism and counterinsurgency

Cited by 27 publications

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Redressing Injustice, Reframing Resilience: Mayan Women’s Persistence and Protagonism as Resistance

Translated Justice? The Ixil Maya and the 2013 Trial of José Efraín Ríos Montt for Genocide in Guatemala

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