Susanne Jonas teaches Latin American & Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. An expert on Central America and Guatemala for over 32 years, she is the author of The Battle for Guatemala: Rebels, Death Squads,andU.S. Power (Westview 1991). She recently coedited Immigration: Civil Rights Issue for the Americas.

• Prologue -- Background: Guatemals's Thirty-Six-Year Civil War -- The Mined Road to Peace -- The Terms of Peace -- Can Peace Bring Democracy or Social Justice? -- The U.S. Role: The Cold War and Beyond -- Implementation Wars -- High Hopes and Stark Realities: Obstacles to Sustainable Development -- The Hijacking of the Constitutional Reforms -- Conclusion: "Reinvention" or Lost Opportunity? Global, Comparative, and Imaginary Perspectives -- Epilogue