On Tue, 07 Apr 1998 22:02:13 -0400 Louis Proyect said:
>(From a journal kept by Archbishop Pedro Cortes y Larraz in colonial
>Guatemala, 1769. Found in "The Guatemala Reader", edited by Jonathan Fried,
>Marvin Gettleman, Deborah Levenson and Nancy Peckenham, Grove Press, 1983)
>
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For tilling the Haciendas, the Indians are divided into groups. The
hacienda owners demand these groups of Indians for planting and for
weeding, whenever their labor is necessary for agricultural production,
which is the same time the Indians need to be working on their own land;
yet the Indians a