HACIA LA PAZ Y LA DEMOCRACIA EN GUATEMALA: ESTRATEGIAS LEGALES 'SUAVES" EN DERECHOS HUMANOS Y CONTRAINSURGENCIA CONSTITUCIONLA

Abstract

The paper aims to outline how key t¡ansformations of Guatemalan sociery occurred in the 1980s and opened up the for peace negotiations that culminated with the final peace. The changes in military strategy parallel to an evolving domestic
and intemational human rights network became the social space out of where the transition grew. The paper argues that the rhetorical human rights practices exercised in this space transfonned the positions of the players not only by yielding more capital (Bourdieu) to human rights activists, but also by influencing the structures of the state and the military.