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Download or read book Guatemalan Children Today written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jessica O'Dwyer
Publisher : Seal Press
ISBN 13 : 1580053343
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Mamalita written by Jessica O'Dwyer and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, who at 32 years old experienced early menopause, chronicles her tireless efforts to adopt a Guatemalan child, including uprooting her life and moving to Antigua in order to navigate the thorny adoption process and finally bring her daughter home. Original.
Author : Nancy Leigh Tierney
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Robbed of Humanity written by Nancy Leigh Tierney and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the circumstances which lead children to leave their homes and describes their way of life on the streets. Shows how both policymakers and private citizens appear to be indifferent to these children's needs and describes instances of human rights abuse. Examines the attitude of the Roman Catholic Church and the mass media and looks at the role of traditional Mayan concepts of childhood. Describes international efforts to secure children's rights.
Author : Zach Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781410731746
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (317 download)
Download or read book Weaving Common Hope written by Zach Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story of "Billy The Kid", starts with his "Pa" dying in Coffeyville, Kansas, and a Mother who never showed any love toward Billy. His early life in Pueblo, Colorado, and in Santa Fe, and Silver City, New Mexico, where at the age of twelve he killed his first man. Then his years of running before he came to Lincoln County, New Mexico, and was taken in by the Englishman Mr. Tunstall. One-fifth of the great State of New Mexico is called, " Billy The Kid Land." The entire southeastern part of The Land Of Enchantment' was once only one county ... but a section of land free of the blight of Spanish or Mexican Land Grants. A land ruled over by one thin stream of water called The Pecos ... up whose tributary streams... the Ruidosa (the noisy), the Bonito (the beautiful), the Hondo, the Peansco, and the Rio Feliz ...a great sea of belly-high grama grass provided food for thousands of head of cattle and provided the pot-of-gold at the end of the rainbow for wealth hungry, land hungry, greedy men who were willing, ready and capable, of sacrificing lives, honor, and even the Territory itself in order to possess it. On the night of July 13, 1881, Billy The Kid was shot to death in the bedroom of Pete Maxwell's home in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, by Pat Garrett, Sheriff of Lincoln County. The following is the Story of Billy's life leading up to that event and tells of the Santa Fe ring's' attempt to gain control of all of the Southeastern New Mexico, and how the ring's' efforts were thwarted, accidentally perhaps, but effectively by the guns of the West's most famous outlaw, William H. Bonney. These gigantic men with unlimited money behind them: with land armies in front of them and no scruples riding with them ... were kept out of the valley by the accurate firing guns of a seventeen year old slope-shouldered boy of no consequence: of no antecedent: of no future but possessed of one single burning urge ... a drive to kill all of those men responsible for the murder of his dearest friend ... a sturdy Englishman who believed in good government, administered by honest law officers. For three years he ruled the valley, unlawfully of course, but with an iron rod' until the valley was populated by settlers who knew nothing of the ideals of the old war'...but whose pressure of inate goodness crushed out the stigma of evil and the Pecos was no longer the Valley of Sin'. He was the bulwark; his was the struggle; his name is the one we remember today ... cursed by many, loved by many but understood by so few ... hardly understanding him self, he rode, and fought until they gunned him down in the end. On his gravestone are these words, "He killed a man for every year of his life"...21 men at 21 years. It is fictional, but is peopled in the main with characters of the struggle, and although fictional, is probably not far from the actual truth ... a reading between the lines of the historical facts ... this is one man's imaginative interpretation of those facts.
Author : Lee Tucker
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
ISBN 13 : 9781564322135
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (221 download)
Download or read book Guatemala's Forgotten Children written by Lee Tucker and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1997 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abuses by private security forces.
Author : Laura Briggs
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520385772
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Taking Children written by Laura Briggs and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You have to take the children away."—Donald Trump Taking Children argues that for four hundred years the United States has taken children for political ends. Black children, Native children, Latinx children, and the children of the poor have all been seized from their kin and caregivers. As Laura Briggs's sweeping narrative shows, the practice played out on the auction block, in the boarding schools designed to pacify the Native American population, in the foster care system used to put down the Black freedom movement, in the US's anti-Communist coups in Central America, and in the moral panic about "crack babies." In chilling detail we see how Central Americans were made into a population that could be stripped of their children and how every US administration beginning with Reagan has put children of immigrants and refugees in detention camps. Yet these tactics of terror have encountered opposition from every generation, and Briggs challenges us to stand and resist in this powerful corrective to American history.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Children Today written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Rights of the Child in Guatemala written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Education in Guatemala written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronnie Cummins
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780836801200
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Children of the World written by Ronnie Cummins and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the life of a young Mayan Indian girl in a Guatemalan lakeside village, describing her family, her day-to-day life, and the history, political system, and customs of her country.
Author : Rachel Nolan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674294688
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Until I Find You written by Rachel Nolan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poignant saga of Guatemala’s adoption industry: an international marketplace for children, built on a foundation of inequality, war, and Indigenous dispossession. In 2009 Dolores Preat went to a small Maya town in Guatemala to find her birth mother. At the address retrieved from her adoption file, she was told that her supposed mother, one Rosario Colop Chim, never gave up a child for adoption—but in 1984 a girl across the street was abducted. At that house, Preat met a woman who strongly resembled her. Colop Chim, it turned out, was not Preat’s mother at all, but a jaladora—a baby broker. Some 40,000 children, many Indigenous, were kidnapped or otherwise coercively parted from families scarred by Guatemala’s civil war or made desperate by unrelenting poverty. Amid the US-backed army’s genocide against Indigenous Maya, children were wrested from their villages and put up for adoption illegally, mostly in the United States. During the war’s second decade, adoption was privatized, overseen by lawyers who made good money matching children to overseas families. Private adoptions skyrocketed to the point where tiny Guatemala overtook giants like China and Russia as a “sender” state. Drawing on government archives, oral histories, and a rare cache of adoption files opened briefly for war crimes investigations, Rachel Nolan explores the human toll of an international industry that thrives on exploitation. Would-be parents in rich countries have fostered a commercial market for children from poor countries, with Guatemala becoming the most extreme case. Until I Find You reckons with the hard truths of a practice that builds loving families in the Global North out of economic exploitation, endemic violence, and dislocation in the Global South.
Author : Sonia Nazario
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588366022
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Enrique's Journey written by Sonia Nazario and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-01-02 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astonishing story that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about immigration reform in the United States, now updated with a new Epilogue and Afterword, photos of Enrique and his family, an author interview, and more—the definitive edition of a classic of contemporary America Based on the Los Angeles Times newspaper series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for feature writing and another for feature photography, this page-turner about the power of family is a popular text in classrooms and a touchstone for communities across the country to engage in meaningful discussions about this essential American subject. Enrique’s Journey recounts the unforgettable quest of a Honduran boy looking for his mother, eleven years after she is forced to leave her starving family to find work in the United States. Braving unimaginable peril, often clinging to the sides and tops of freight trains, Enrique travels through hostile worlds full of thugs, bandits, and corrupt cops. But he pushes forward, relying on his wit, courage, hope, and the kindness of strangers. As Isabel Allende writes: “This is a twenty-first-century Odyssey. If you are going to read only one nonfiction book this year, it has to be this one.” Praise for Enrique’s Journey “Magnificent . . . Enrique’s Journey is about love. It’s about family. It’s about home.”—The Washington Post Book World “[A] searing report from the immigration frontlines . . . as harrowing as it is heartbreaking.”—People (four stars) “Stunning . . . As an adventure narrative alone, Enrique’s Journey is a worthy read. . . . Nazario’s impressive piece of reporting [turns] the current immigration controversy from a political story into a personal one.”—Entertainment Weekly “Gripping and harrowing . . . a story begging to be told.”—The Christian Science Monitor “[A] prodigious feat of reporting . . . [Sonia Nazario is] amazingly thorough and intrepid.”—Newsday
Download or read book Guatemalan children's literature publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821355527
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Poverty in Guatemala written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available evidence suggests that poverty levels in Guatemala are higher than other Central American countries, with data for 2000 showing over half of all Guatemalans (about 6.4 million people) living in poverty, with about 16 per cent classified as living in extreme poverty. This report provides a multi-dimensional analysis of poverty in the country, using both quantitative and qualitative data, as well as examining the impact of government policies and spending on the poor. Policy options and priorities for poverty reduction strategies are identified under the key challenges of building opportunities and assets, reducing vulnerabilities, improving institutions and empowering communities.
Author : Sensei Paul David
Publisher : Kids On Earth
ISBN 13 : 9781778482830
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Kids On Earth - A Children's Documentary Series Exploring Global Cultures & The Natural World written by Sensei Paul David and published by Kids On Earth. This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bastian and Jacinta take us on an exciting and unforgettable adventure around the unique country of Guatemala
Author : Angela Murray
Publisher : Monarch Books
ISBN 13 : 9781854247797
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (477 download)
Download or read book Through the Eyes of a Street Child written by Angela Murray and published by Monarch Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angela Murray went to Guatemala after completing her degree. What she discovered changed her life. She went to give, but stayed to receive. "I don't think anything can truly prepare you for the experience of working with street children," she explains. "It is so easy to think of 'street children' as one big group. Once you start working with them, they become individuals. A picture doesn't tell you what it smells like at the rubbish dump in Zone 3 of Guatemala City; a place that was home to young Oscar and many others. Only when you stand there do the tension and darkness really hit you. "This book seeks to be a vessel for the children themselves to tell their own stories, in their own words."
Author : Jules Hermes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780876149942
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (499 download)
Download or read book Children of Guatemala written by Jules Hermes and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an overview of the history, geography, and people of Guatemala by introducing Mayan, Cakchiquel, Ladino, and Garifuna children.
