http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/paradise-in-ashes Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Wed, 27 May 2026 05:47:51 -0400 Wed, 27 May 2026 05:47:51 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/7/causes-for-the-guatemalan-civil-war-as-seen-in-paradise-in-ashes-by-beatriz-manz By David Pierce - The civil war in Guatemala was the longest struggle in modern Latin American history, spanning decades from the late 1950s to the 1990s, and leading to deadly armed conflict between government and rebel militias that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and made millions of others homeless.[1] This struggle was one with its roots planted in the grossly unequal distribution of wealth that had existed in Guatemalan society for many years, and this fact served as an undertone throughout the conflict. In Beatriz Manz’s book, Paradise in Ashes, Manz uses first person accounts from a small but... Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:43 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/7/causes-for-the-guatemalan-civil-war-as-seen-in-paradise-in-ashes-by-beatriz-manz