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Author Guzaro, Tomás.

Title Escaping the fire : how an Ixil Mayan pastor led his people out of a holocaust during the Guatemalan Civil War / Tomás Guzaro and Terri Jacob McComb ; afterword by David Stoll
Edition 1st ed
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 224 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Exodus : August 1982 -- Son of a Mayan priest : 1960s -- Catholicism in Ixil country : late 1960s-mid-1970s -- The curse : 1975-1976 -- Conflict of cultures : October 1976-1977 -- Reconciliation : 1977-1978 -- Protestant growth and the guerrilla takeover : February-September 1979 -- Between two fires : October 1979-August 1980 -- Targeting the evangélicos : September 1980 -- Given a little more time : September-December 1980 -- Narrow escapes : January 1981-February 1982 -- Desperate for a way out : February-July 1982 -- The vision : July-August 1982 -- Escaping the fire : August 3-4, 1982 -- A taste of freedom : August 1982 -- Life in a refugee village : September 1982-May 1983 -- Lifting up Ixil country : June 1983-2009 -- Afterword: Tomás Guzaro in historical context
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Guzaro, Tomás.
SUBJECT Guzaro, Tomás fast
Guzaro, Tomás. fast/nic/nac
Subject Guerrillas -- Guatemala -- History -- 20th century
Guerrilla warfare -- Guatemala -- History -- 20th century
Ixil Indians -- Biography
Clergy -- Guatemala -- Biography
Religious leaders -- Guatemala -- Biography
Evangelicalism -- Guatemala -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- Central America.
Clergy
Evangelicalism
Guerrilla warfare
Guerrillas
Ixil Indians
War -- Religious aspects
Religious leaders
War -- Underground movements
SUBJECT Guatemala -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1996 -- Personal narratives, Mayan
Guatemala -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1996 -- Undergound movements
Guatemala -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1996 -- Religious aspects
Subject Guatemala
Genre/Form Electronic books
autobiographies (literary works)
Biographies
History
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Récits personnels.
Form Electronic book
Author McComb, Terri Jacob.
LC no. 2009032889
ISBN 9780292792999
0292792999