WHAT IS IT TO BE GUATEMALAN?

Abstract

Rafael Cuevas Molina, a Guatemalan researcher living in Costa Rica, developed this work as a memorial to Luis Cardoza y Aragón, whose homonymously titled essay constitutes a classic Guatemalan literary work Taking the subjective dimension as much into account as the rational dimension, the author reaches the conclusion that to be Guatemalan al the beginning of the twenty-first century is to be contradictory, to live in an ambiguous, frequently violent, territory, with strains of different colors that intersect but want neither to mix nor to be side-by-side, peacefully.