![]() As before they wanted to take care of the two new aliens and he was mostly fine with that. But then their hedgehog and his new friends saved the world from a crazy superpowered scientist and his giant robot. It was bad enough when they kept the first alien that they found. Otherwise, you wouldn't have asked for my assessment.” “No, he was a government property but because of your deal with Wachowskis he is now considered a citizen.” She glared at him. It even says it on the tank that we found it in.” The commander pulled out the picture from the file to show it to her. “That is my assessment.” She said firmly. The mess of her blond locks defied the neat order that he had in his office. She stood there unflinching, ready to fight. He should have picked someone older who was already jaded by their work but it was too late for that now. But no, he had to pick the one person that was serious about her job. ![]() He thought that the shock of learning that aliens were real would be enough to get the opinion in his favor. She was the first social worker that was available to him. He didn’t even think that hard when he picked her to do the assessment. It was supposed to be just a spectacle so everything would be above board. It was so clear to him, so why did she make his life more difficult? She had one simple job, to confirm his assessment and make the project officially under G.U.N. He flipped through the file looking for anything that could deny her claims. The older man was sitting in front of the desk in his private office. Chapter 10.“You can’t be serious!” Commander Walters said to the woman in front of him.Water Power Promise: Revisiting Revolutionary DIY (Diane M. “Una obra revolucionaria”: Indigenismo and the Guatemalan Revolution, 1944–1954 (Sarah Foss) “A pack of cigarettes or some soap”: “Race,” Security, International Public Health, and Human Medical Experimentation during Guatemala’s October Revolution (Abigail E. Rethinking Representation and Periodization in Guatemala’s Democratic Experiment (David Carey Jr.) Youths and Juan José Arévalo’s Democratic Government in Guatemala, 1945–1951 (Arturo Taracena Arriola) The “Indigenous Problem,” Cold War US Anthropology, and Revolutionary Nationalism: New Approaches to Racial Thinking and Indigeneity in Guatemala (Jorge Ramón González Ponciano) Arévalo’s Tomorrowland: The Revolutionary Crusade to Build and Defend the New Guatemala on the Petén Frontier (Anthony Andersson) The Coastal Laboratory: Milpa, Conservation, and Agrarian Reform (Patrick Chassé) “To Wrench Our Rights from La Frutera”: Race, Labor, and Redefining National Belonging on the Caribbean Coast (Ingrid Sierakowski) Revisiting the Revolution in Contemporary Guatemala (Heather Vrana and Julie Gibbings) The Path back to the Future-the Enduring Legacy of the Revolution (Jim Handy) Rethinking institutional memories of the Cold War, the book concludes by considering the process of translating memory into possibility among present-day urban activists. Yet this volume also sheds light on the period’s atrocities, such as the US Public Health Service’s medical experimentation on Guatemalans between 19. Marshaling information on regions that have been neglected by other scholars, such as coastlines dominated by people of African descent, the contributors describe an era when Guatemalan peasants, Maya and non-Maya alike, embraced change, became landowners themselves, diversified agricultural production, and fully engaged in electoral democracy. Presenting the research of diverse anthropologists and historians, Out of the Shadow offers a new examination of this pivotal chapter in Latin American history. ![]() This decade of progressive policies ended abruptly when a coup d’état, backed by the United States at the urging of the United Fruit Company, deposed a democratically elected president and set the stage for a period of systematic human rights abuses that endured for generations. Guatemala’s “Ten Years of Spring” (1944–1954) began when citizens overthrew a military dictatorship and ushered in a remarkable period of social reform.
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