Contents -- Preface -- Part One. Struggle and Survival -- One. Q'anjob'al Canadian -- Two. Nobel K'iche' -- Three. Jakaltek American -- Four. Doña Magdalena -- Five. Through A Lens, Darkly -- Six. Devils and Angels -- Part Two. Blood and Ink -- Seven. The Delivery Man -- Eight. Into the Fire (1981) -- Nine. Peace of the Dead (1982-1983) -- Ten. Futility at the Polls (1984) -- Eleven. Civilian Rule (1985-1986) -- Twelve. A Militarized Society (1987-1990) -- Thirteen. The Daily News (1990) -- Fourteen. The Fiction of Democracy (1991) -- Fifteen. Searching for Peace (1993-1994) -- Sixteen. Scarred by War (1995) -- Seventeen. How Was Guatemala? -- Part Three. Spaniards, Ladinos, and the Enduring Maya -- Eighteen. The Colonial Experience -- Nineteen. The Century After Independence -- Twenty. Arbenz and the Fruit Company -- Twenty-One. The T-Shirt Parade -- Twenty-Two. Natives in the Backcountry -- Epilogue -- Sources and Commentary -- Index.