David Stoll: A rush to judgement?

Editor’s note: This commentary is by David Stoll, who is a professor of anthropology at Middlebury College. His books include “El Norte or Bust! How Migration Fever and Microcredit Produced a Financial Crash in a Guatemalan Town” and “Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans.”
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