Word: guatemalans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Miguel Angel Asturias, 74, Guatemalan novelist, diplomat and winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for literature; of a respiratory ailment and intestinal tumor; in Madrid. A hulking man with strikingly saurian eyes, Asturias was a dedicated leftist. He spent much of his life abroad, either as a student, in diplomatic service or, when the Guatemalan government had taken one of its periodic swings to the extreme right, as an exile. His first major novel, The President, a searing indictment of a Guatemalan dictator, was followed by a trilogy blasting the imperialism of the United Fruit Co. in Latin America...
...FENACOAC is growing, the Guatemalan government is beginning to give the organization more recognition. The Guatemalan vice president and minister of finance were present at the last FENACOAC general assembly, while the president sent his regrets. In September 1973, the government publicized a $100,000 gift to FENACOAC, an obvious attempt to solicit votes for the upcoming March elections. The question remains how far the Guatemalan military government will allow the federation to develop in size and in representation before cutting off support...
...majority of Peace Corps volunteers are not knowledgeable of Guatemalan national-level politics, but they are intelligent. They perceive that the Guatemalan farmer has a very small share of the power and wealth in the country, and they work to increase his share of both. Government officials in Guatemala have often expressed unofficially the idea that Peace Corp workers are spreading Communism in the countryside...
...Peace Corps volunteer contributes needed technical aid in agronomy to the local communities. Very few Guatemalan agronomists will work with small farmers. They prefer working for private business with its higher pay and professionalism. The volunteer can actually accomplish more than the agronomist who makes only occasional visits because he lives in the area for at least two years...
When they have finished their term, some volunteers will extend their stay for one or two years more. Occasionally a volunteer will marry a Guatemalan and decide to remain indefinitely. Many of them realize that they prefer the rural way-of-life and will either buy land in Latin America or join an agricultural commune when they return to the United States. One volunteer was writing a novel and planned to work for a magazine in New York City while he tried to get it published. Another decided to get a job in the Caribbean and learn French. Those...