Pakistan Exists. Guatemala Exists. Mexico Exists.

Name: Pakistan Exists. Guatemala Exists. Mexico Exists.
Creator: Roshni Rustomji
Keywords: 05 social sciences, 0507 social and economic geography, 0506 political science

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 2008 English Publisher:Informa UK LimitedJournal:Amerasia Journal, volume 34, pages 113-120 (issn: 0044-7471,

Authors: Roshni Rustomji;

doi: 10.17953/amer.34.1.733v256g576p1371

Pakistan Exists. Guatemala Exists. Mexico Exists.

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I have been trying to read Francisco Goldman's The Long Night of the White Chickens. The Guatemala of the book is Pakistan to me. Pakistan of military rule supported by U.S. tax dollars. As I walk through Oaxaca, breathing the cool, dry air that reminds me of winters in Karachi, I am haunted by the sardonic words of one of the characters in the book: Guatemala does not exist. I know. I have been there.

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