the rise of the plantation economy during the late-19th and early-20th centuries and the state-sponsored genocide during the ...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has ruled that the Guatemalan government was responsible for human rights violations ...

At the time, Guatemala was in the midst of a bloody civil war that started in 1960 and didn’t end until the signing of peace accords in 1996. Armed forces repeatedly attacked the village of Sepur ...

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.

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 ...

The years of military rule in Chile, when thousands of people were killed or disappeared, have left deep scars More than 20 years have passed since the civil war ended in Guatemala and Chile ...

They disappeared in April 1989, during the first civilian presidency of Vinicio Cerezo after decades of military leadership, and amid Guatemala’s 36-year civil war that ended in 1996.