Guatemala: ‘The Root Is Maya, The Practice Is Pluralist': Xel-jú And Indigenous Political ...

Guatemala: ‘The Root Is Maya, The Practice Is Pluralist': Xel-jú And Indigenous Political Mobilisation In Quetzaltenango, Guatemala Elisabet Dueholm Rasch, 2011   Since the 1990s Latin America has witnessed the emergence of ethnic, often social movement-based, political parties. Within this context Rigoberto Quemé Chay became the first indigenous mayor of Quetzaltenango, the second-largest city of Guatemala, a place that until then had been marked by indigenous political exclusion and...

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