General Information about Guatemala:

The New York Times Background on Guatemala:
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/guatemala/index.html?scp=1-spot&sq=guatemala&st=cse

The Columbia Encyclopedia Guatemala Entry:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Guatemal.html

Freedom House. Country Report: Guatemala.
http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=140&edition=7&ccrpage=31&ccrcountry=115

Cross-Cultural Service Work, Globalization

Diggs, David. “We See From Where We Stand.”
http://www.beyondborders.net/essays/WeSeeFromWhereWeStand.htm

McIntosh, Peggy. “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.” http://www.case.edu/president/aaction/UnpackingTheKnapsack.pdf

Stiglitz, Joseph. “The Overselling of Globalization,” http://www.adelinotorres.com/desenvolvimento/STIGLITZ_2005_Overselling_Globalization.pdf

Catholic Social Teaching, the Underpinnings of the Parish's Work:

Darring, Gerald. “A Handbook of Catholic Social Teaching.”
http://www.shc.edu/theolibrary/cst.htm#official.

Office for Social Justice St. Paul and Minneapolis, “Catholic Social Teaching.”
http://www.osjspm.org/catholic_social_teaching.aspx

Maya, Guatemalan History, The Civil War, Etc.

Montejo, Victor. Maya Intellectual Renaissance: Identity, Representation, and Leadership. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005: 17-36.
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Fischer, Edward F. and Carol Hendrickson, “The Guatemala Context,” in Tecpan Guatemala: A Modern Maya Town in Global and Local Context, 2003: 25-41.
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Commission for Historical Clarification. Guatemala Memory of Silence: TZ’NIL NA’TAB’AL , Conclusions and Recommendations.http://shr.aaas.org/guatemala/ceh/report/english/toc.html.