A War that should have been called a Civil War
Back in 1960 the government of Guatemala went to war with the insurgents of the country. This is what started the war that was never really talked about. The civil war lasted until the peace accords were signed 1996. Over 200,000 people were slaughtered and till this day they are still finding mass graves of bodies. Most of the people that were killed were not the guerrilla fighters but the indigeous Mayan farmers, peasants, students, and local government people. Not only was there over 200,000 killed but over 50,000 went missing.
Declassified CIA documentsshow that the United States was instrumental in organizing, funding, and equipping the coup which toppled the democratically elected government of Guatemala in 1954.
Declassified CIA documentsshow that the United States was instrumental in organizing, funding, and equipping the coup which toppled the democratically elected government of Guatemala in 1954.
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Guatemala appoints Mayan ambassador to indigenous people
In the midst of increasing conflict between Guatemala's indigenous people and transnational corporations, Mayan elder Don Alejandro Cirilo Perez Oxlaj was appointed Aug. 9 as Indigenous Peoples Ambassador for Guatemala by President Alvaro Colom.''We don't want any more war, any more death,'' he said. '''We will contribute for the good of the country, because we are all hungry, we are all sick and needy, there is a lot of inequality. The great wealth that we have in Guatemala is the indigenous people.''
His appointment comes at a time when Colom has come under increasing pressure by the country's Mayan people to stop backing exploitation of their territories by transnationals, and make good on some of his pre-election promises to them.
When Perez Oxlaj received an award from Colom in May for his environmental work, he asked him to halt exploitation of indigenous territory and listen ''to the voices of indigenous people who have opposed oil exploitation and the construction of hydroelectric installations.''
''As an elder of the Mayan people, I ask that you listen to the clamor of our people. We are not rich, but we have dignity. We have said many times that we don't want mining, and we are tired of you not listening to us.''
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by: Lisa Garrigues / Today correspondent
Guatemala plans bigger army
- Guatemala plans bigger army despite war abuse past
- SAN JUAN SACATEPEQUEZ, Guatemala, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Hit by a surge in violent crime, Guatemala is planning to increase the size of its army for the first time since a civil war marked by military massacres and abuses ended in 1996.
President Alvaro Colom, who took office in January on a left-of-center platform, has asked Congress to approve a bigger military budget and boost the number of soldiers by around 60 percent to 25,000 by 2010.
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Links about the war in Guatemala
- wikipedia
- Guatemalan Civil War From Wikipedia,
- ICE Cases: Guatemala-Maya Civil War
- The Guatemala civil war has been in progress
- Online NewsHour: Peace in Guatemala -- December 30, 1996
- pbs documentary
- Guatemala War
- Guatemala suffered more than 36 years of internal conflict, which formally ended with the signing of the Peace Accords at the end of 1996
- BBC NEWS | Americas | Country profiles | Timeline: Guatemala
- Timeline: Guatemala civil war
A chronology of key events:
BBC News Across the Americas
Guatemala Times
Amnesty International
Guatemala
Freedom and Independence | Revue Magazine
Freedom is the absence of constraints and dependence.
- Freedom and Independence | Revue Magazine
- Freedom is the absence of constraints and dependence. In the personal realm this can be confusing. For example, does being without constraints mean a solitary life? Or, how does a person reconcile freedom with the responsibility of a family? Independence holds admiration and aspiration for some, while others turn away in fear.
Guatemala's dirty secrets exposed
Guatemala's dirty secrets exposed
- Guatemala's dirty secrets exposed - The Irish Times - Wed, Apr 15, 2009
- ANNE-MARIE O'CONNOR
Records found in an munitions depot cast light on the Latin American country's repressive past, writes ANNE-MARIE O'CONNOR in Guatemala city
FOR YEARS the national police dumped millions of old files in a former munitions depot inhabited by bats.
Thousands march to demand Guatemalan leader resign
- The Associated Press: Thousands march to demand Guatemalan leader resign
- Thousands march to demand Guatemalan leader resign
By JUAN CARLOS LLORCA ? 58 minutes ago
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) ? Thousands of Guatemalans gathered for a march to the National Palace on Sunday to demand the president resign over accusations that he ordered a lawyer killed, a scandal threatening the rule of the country's first leftist leader more than 50 years.
Violence out of control in Guatemala
- Violence out of control in Guatemala | Spero News
- Guatemala, no longer a killing field of the Cold War, has become of a land of unimpeded violence seemingly immune to justice. Even the president has been accused of murder.
Deadly violence appears to be a daily occurrence in Guatemala, where even the president of the small Central American nation has been accused of being the author of a recent murder of attorney. Thousands of President Alvaro Colom's supporters thronged the central square of Guatemala City on May 17, while in another public space his accusers demanded justice for Rodrigo Rosenberg, who had accused in a video before his death that the president and his wife were plotting his murder.
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