Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Los Encuentros
• Prologue
• Part 1: Guatemala City
  • Arrival
  • The Capital for Tourists
  • Walking around Town
  • Rainy Season in the Slums
  • The City Dump
  • Along the Railroad Tracks
  • A GAM Rally
  • Authority in Guatemala
  • Maquilas
  • El Churrasco
  • Ladino Attitudes
  • Soccer in Guatemala
  • Street Children
  • Buying a Scooter
  • Bureaucracy Revisited
  • The Post Office
  • " Fíjase"
  • Religion
  • Restaurants
  • USAID
  • The Gringo Presence
• Part 2: Roads and Texts
  • Antigua
  • Lake Atitlán
  • Chichicastenango
  • Utatlán
  • The Ixil Triangle
  • The Biotopo del Quetzal
  • The Road to El Estor
  • The Oriente
  • The Last Road
• Bibliography
• Index

Promotional Information

"Benz brings the reader face to face with the landscape, the people, and the institutions of Guatemala. I am convinced that his book will appeal to a general audience, to students entering the field of Latin American studies, and even to people planning a trip to that country. His insights into and observations of Guatemalan society are invariably accurate and engaging." -- Pablo Medina, author of Exiled Memories: A Cuban Childhood

About the Author

Stephen Connely Benz was a Fulbright Scholar in Guatemala from 1988 to 1990. A poet and essayist, he is Assistant Professor of English at Barry University in Miami.