Guatemalan Genocide on Trial
Guatemala achieved a breakthrough for justice today with the opening of the landmark criminal trial of Efraín Ríos Montt, former military dictator, for genocide and crimes against humanity. Ríos Montt,...
View ArticleUpdate on Guatemalan Genocide Trial
Guatemala City, February 4, 2013—Judge Miguel Ángel Gálvez ended a four-hour hearing today in the genocide trial of former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt by accepting all of the witnesses,...
View Article“Intellectual Authors” of Guatemalan Forced Disappearances Convicted.
Guatemala City—On September 20, a Guatemalan tribunal convicted the former director of the National Police of Guatemala, retired Col. Héctor Bol de la Cruz, and his subordinate Jorge Alberto Gómez...
View ArticleGuatemalan Army Officer Convicted in U.S. Courtroom for Lying about Dos Erres...
A California jury found former Guatemalan lieutenant Jorge Sosa Orantes guilty on two counts of naturalization fraud today, concluding that he deliberately hid his role in the gruesome 1982 Dos Erres...
View Article“GRANITO: How to Nail a Dictator” now available on iTunes
Granito: How to Nail a Dictator, the acclaimed documentary about the fight for justice in Guatemala, is now available on iTunes. In a startling loop of time and memory, Granito: How to Nail a Dictator...
View ArticleOscar Mejía Víctores Dead at 85: Guatemalan dictator dies as human rights...
Oscar Mejía Víctores, Guatemalan army general and former head of state from 1983 to 1986 who presided over some of the most repressive periods in the country’s 36-year civil conflict – first as...
View ArticleThe New York Times Magazine Highlights Archive Partner Fredy Peccerelli
Fredy Peccerelli – Guatemala’s foremost forensic anthropologist and longtime partner of the National Security Archive’s Guatemala Documentation Project – is profiled in The New York Times Sunday...
View ArticleNew Identification of Guatemala’s Disappeared
The Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation (FAFG) has confirmed the identification of one of the victims associated with the notorious “Death Squad Diary,” or Diario Militar, a Guatemalan military...
View ArticleCreative Justice: Behind the battle to make U.S. courtrooms sites of...
This posting initially appeared in Volume 49 of NACLA Report on the Americas. Poet, musician, theater director, teacher, and activist, Víctor Jara was the creative heart of the movement in Chile...
View ArticleJournalists Are Dying in Mexico
When gunmen shot and killed Mexican columnist, investigative reporter, and author Javier Valdez Cárdenas in Culiacán, Sinaloa on May 15, a chill went through newsrooms everywhere. Not only was he the...
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