Projects for the social integration of the Indian and the national imaginary of the intellectual elites in Guatemala, nineteenth and twentieth centuries

This article studies the ideas of a number of 19th and 20th century politic al thinkers in regard to national projects which were inclusive or exclusiv e of subordinate groups such as Indians and Ladinos. The 19th century inclu sive position of Jose Cecilio del Valle and the more exclusive on conceived by Batres Jauregui are analyzed, as well as the reasons why these types of ideas are still prevailing. In the 20th century, the analysis includes exc lusion defenders such as Horacio Altamirano and their opposites, like Juare z Munoz. The whole article is pervaded with the ideas of the so-called Generacion de l 20, the analysis of which is particularly original and important to under stand arguments which have prevailed till the present day and are used to s upport theories for the inclusion and/or exclusion of Indians in the nation al project of Guatemala.