Their deaths took place in the middle of Guatemala’s 36-year-long civil war as a series of US-backed military governments cracked down on leftist rebels across the country. Guatemala’s ...

A Mayan women from the Rabinal Achí community listens with her eyes closed, during a new trial for three former ...

A Maya-Achi woman on her way to claim war reparations while hundreds wait outside for their names to be called out. During my fieldwork, I talked to survivors of the Guatemalan genocide (1980-1982) to ...

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A history of Guatemala in Central America from the arrival of the Spanish Conquistadors to the end of the Civil War and peace being signed in 1996. This clip could be used as a listening ...

In similar fashion, the tragedy of modern Guatemala owes its origins to U.S. foreign policy. A garrison state for more than forty years, Guatemala was home to the longest and bloodiest civil war ...

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