Guatemala’s Postwar Prospects

Issue Date April 1997
Volume 8
Issue 2
Page Numbers 129-43
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About the Author

Rachel M. McCleary, a consultant on political and economic issues in Central America, holds a doctorate from the University of Chicago and has taught at Georgetown and Princeton universities. In 1994, she conducted research in Guatemala as a Fulbright research grantee, and has written numerous articles on contemporary politics in that country.

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