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Guatemalan Social Movements: From the Peace Process to a New Cycle of Popular Struggle, (1996–2013)

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This chapter presents an abbreviated panorama of the changes that have occurred during the struggle of social movements in Guatemala since the signing of the peace agreement that ended the 36 years of internal war in 1996. The cycle of popular struggle seen in Guatemala today constitutes a response to structural and historical demands that were never attended and resolved, as well as new factors such as the imposition of an economic model based on accumulation by dispossession. This occurs in a context of regression in the process of democratization, respect for human rights, and the strengthening of political, economical, and military forces that seek the restoration of an authoritarian regime.

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    The analysis of the pronouncements of the social movements from 1997–2003 showed that their demands related to the peace process were in vain and begun to criticize the non compliance.

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    Such as the elevation of the IVA tax from 12 to 15 %.

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    Based on statistics from the Social Movement study group of FLACSO Guatemala.

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Yagenova, S. (2015). Guatemalan Social Movements: From the Peace Process to a New Cycle of Popular Struggle, (1996–2013). In: Almeida, P., Cordero Ulate, A. (eds) Handbook of Social Movements across Latin America. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9912-6_23

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