Mayan Voices for Human Rights: Displaced Catholics in Highland Chiapas

by Christine Kovic

Book Overview

In the last decades of the twentieth century, thousands of Mayas were expelled, often violently, from their homes in San Juan Chamula and other highland communities in Chiapas, Mexico, by fellow Mayas allied with the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). State and federal authorities generally turned a blind eye to these human rights abuses, downplaying them as local conflicts over religious conversion and defense of cultural traditions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292706405
• ISBN13: 9780292706408
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"