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03791aam a2200469 i 4500 001 E2799B32141211EF8F56A7732FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240517010047 008 230412s2024 alua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023017131 020 $a 081736126X 020 $a 9780817361266 020 $a 0817321780 020 $a 9780817321789 035 $a (OCoLC)1371749421 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d ALM $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a ncgt--- 050 00 $a BX2348.Z8 $b G93 2024 082 00 $a 267/.182097281 $2 23/eng/20230712 100 1 $a Cangemi, Michael J., $d 1978- $e author. 245 10 $a Blessed are the activists : $b Catholic advocacy, human rights, and genocide in Guatemala / $c Michael J. Cangemi. 264 1 $a Tuscaloosa, Alabama : $b The University of Alabama Press, $c [2024] 300 $a xvi, 228 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Blessed Are the Activists examines US Catholic activists' influence on US-Guatemalan relations during the Guatemalan civil war's most violent years in the 1970s and 1980s. Cangemi argues that Catholic activists' definition of human rights, advocacy methods, and structure caused them to act as a transnational human rights NGO that engaged Guatemalan and US government officials on human rights issues, reported on Guatemala's human rights violations, and criticized US foreign policy decisions as a contributing factor in Guatemala's inequality, poverty, and violence. His work foregrounds how Catholic activists emphasized dignity for Guatemala's poorest citizens and the connections they made between justice, solidarity, and peace and brought Guatemala's violence, poverty, and inequality to greater global attention, often at great personal risk. Cangemi pays considerable attention to multiple facets of the strained US-Guatemala diplomatic relationship, including how and why Guatemala's military dictatorship exposed the internal flaws within the Carter administration's decision to link military aid to human rights and how internal foreign policy debates in the Carter and Reagan administrations helped to intensify Guatemala's bloody civil war. He also includes interviews conducted with Guatemalan genocide survivors and refugees to provide firsthand accounts of the consequences of those policymaking decisions. Finally, he offers readers an in-depth examination of the US Catholic press's sharp rebukes of US policies on Guatemala and all of Central America when the broader Roman Catholic Church began to move farther toward the ideological right under John Paul II. Blessed Are the Activists offers rich, original research and a gripping narrative. With Guatemala and other countries in Latin America still experiencing human rights abuses, this book will continue to provide context. It will appeal to a broad swath of readers, from scholars to the general public and students"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Catholic Action $z Guatemala $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Liberation theology $z Guatemala $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Human rights $z Guatemala $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Genocide $z Guatemala $x History $y 20th century. 650 6 $a Theologie de la liberation $z Guatemala $x Histoire $y 20e siecle. 650 6 $a Droits de l'homme (Droit international) $z Guatemala $x Histoire $y 20e siecle. 650 7 $a Catholic Action $2 fast 650 7 $a Genocide $2 fast 650 7 $a Human rights $2 fast 650 7 $a Liberation theology $2 fast 651 7 $a Guatemala $2 fast 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History $2 fast 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240517012700.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E2799B32141211EF8F56A7732FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search