From the holdings of the Firestone Library at Princeton University

For more than three decades, the Guatemala News and Information Bureau (GNIB) gathered material from a variety of sources to document Guatemala's political and social processes from various points of view. Civil War, Society, and Political Transition in Guatemala comprises rare and unique ephemera, serials, studies and reports that are not widely available in libraries in either the United States or Guatemala.

This archive features information a vast number of topics affecting Guatemala politics, society and culture of the last forty years, including:

• geography/environment (maps, environmental degradation and natural disasters)
• social and cultural issues (health, women's issues, children and youth, Mayan culture)
• the economy (tourism industry, multinational corporations, land reform)
• politics and government (government administrations, the military, political violence, political parties, peace process, Truth Commission)
• foreign policy (Guatemalan foreign policy, U.S. involvement, the School of the Americas, other countries and international organizations)
• human rights (human rights organizations, human rights violations, massacres, kidnappings, tortures, specific cases)
• revolutionary organizations (information from and about organizations such as the Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG), the Ejército Guerrillero de Los Pobres (EGP), the Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (FAR), and the Organización del Pueblo en Armas (ORPA)
• popular and democratic organizations (peasant and indigenous rights organizations, refugees, labor unions, solidarity groups, religious organizations)

With publication of this extraordinary collection, previously inaccessible material and the item-level guide that accompanies it, is now easily attainable for all libraries seeking to deepen their Latin American holdings.

Part 1: Society, Politics, Economics, and Foreign Policy
25 reels

Part 2: Human Rights and Revolutionary and Popular Movements
44 reels

Part 3: Serials, Reports and Publications
43 reels

Complete Collection: 112 reels