The peace process in Central America and the recognition of the ethnic cultural diversity: the Nicaraguan and Guatemalan case

Abstract

The peace treaties between the government and the armed insurgency in Nicaragua and Guatemala was a necessity due to the different forms of social historical exclusions that the indigenous villages faced in each one of these countries, in which a war process was evident and afflicted them directly. The solution was a peace treaty. This analysis focused in the content of the treaties, which are higher social, cultural, economic and legal demands. Since these treaties were singed, for the afro-descendants indigenous people of these two countries, the planned challenge is the implementation of the full citizenship of these villages, in coherence with the democratic advances in the Centro American region.