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The end of the bloody, US-backed civil wars across Central America led to a brutal neoliberal economic restructuring near the ...
During my fieldwork, I talked to survivors of the Guatemalan genocide (1980-1982) to determine how their lives had been affected by the civil war.
[Reuters] Five former Guatemalan paramilitaries went on trial ... to 1985 during the Central American country's decades-long civil war. The Paramilitary Civil Self-Defense Patrols (PACs) were ...
This is the archive of the former Guatemalan National Police, implicated in the kidnapping, torture and murder of tens of thousands of people during the country's 36-year civil war, which ended in ...
Former paramilitary Pedro Sanchez, center, enters a courtroom to face a new trial for the crimes of sexual violence during the civil war against Mayan women from the Achí community ...
Daniel Hernández-Salazar currently works as the Official Photographer of Guatemala’s President Bernardo Arévalo De León. He ...
"A Voice Came Down the Mountain" tells of Winckler's encounter with "Capitána Ana" at a hideout on a volcano named Atitlán, near a lake of legendary beauty, high in the Sierre Madre de Chiapas range ...
Rigoberta Menchú is one of the few voices to speak out regarding what happened in Guatemala during its civil war, as well as ...
As part of the Northern Triangle, along with El Salvador and Honduras, Guatemala is considered one of the world’s most dangerous places. Still recovering from a deadly, decades-long civil war that ...
[Reuters] Five former Guatemalan paramilitaries went on trial ... to 1985 during the Central American country's decades-long civil war. The Paramilitary Civil Self-Defense Patrols (PACs) were ...
Former paramilitary Simeon Gomez sits in a courtroom facing a new trial for the crimes of sexual violence during the civil ... war against Mayan women from the Achí community of Rabinal, in ...