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.

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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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...

A garrison state for more than forty years, Guatemala was home to the longest and bloodiest civil war in Central American history. The roots of that war go back to an almost-forgotten CIA ...

“Guatemalans began to come to Oregon in the 1970s, fleeing the civil war,” Lynn Stephen says, referring to the Guatemalan civil war that lasted 36 years and killed over 200,000 people. Stephen is a ...

US deportation policies exacerbate poverty and instability in Central America, where vulnerable populations already struggle ...

including tens of thousands of Guatemalans who sought sanctuary in the 1970s and 1980s during that country’s civil war. “The ...