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I, Rigoberta Menchu is the autobiography of Guatemala's Indian Nobel Peace Prize winner - a very moving story of Mayan life and government repression.Time and the Highland Maya by Barbara Tedlock is an anthropological study of the Quiché Indians of Momostenango.Unfinished Conquest: The Guatemalan Tragedy by Victor Perera looks at the history of the Maya and their situation in modern Guatemala.The Central America Fact Book by Tom Barry & Deb Preusch examines the economic, political and military role of the USA in Central America.Birds of Guatemala by Hugh C Land is a field guide to - surprisingly enough - the birds of Guatemala.Clamor of Innocence: Central American Short Stories, edited by Barbara Paschke & David Volpendesta, contains 31 short stories by writers from the region.





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