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AFGHANISTAN: A DISTANT WAR
AFGHANISTAN: RESTORING SPIRIT & STONE
UNITED STATES: GREENPOINT
UNITED STATES: SEX TRAFFICKING
- Vice in Los Angeles
- Survivors of Human Trafficking
VIETNAM: AFTER THE WAR
BRAZIL: GOLD RUSH
EL SALVADOR: STATE OF EXEMPTION
GUATEMALA: SCORCHED EARTH

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Guatemala in Color

Guerrillas from the Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo, PGT, stand with their weapons at a training camp near the Mexican border in the western region of Guatemala, July 1, 1981. The PGT had been a clandestine organization since the 1954 coup d'état t

A pack of pigs forage through a pile of garbage in a slum in Guatemala City, Guatemala, June 1, 1981. In 1954, U.S. economic interests and the United Fruit Company’s influence in Guatemala were threatened by nationalist reforms proposed by President

A local civil defense force holds a meeting in the village square in Todos Santos, Guatemala, September 1, 1982. The Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil, PAC, were composed of members of rural communities particularly in the heavily indigenous northwest

Guatemalan army soldiers patrol near the National Palace in downtown Guatemala City, Guatemala, August 1, 1983. In the 36-year domestic armed conflict lasting from 1960 to 1996, an estimated 200,000 people were killed, up to 45,000 civilians were fo

Guatemalan Defense Minister Brigadier General Óscar Mejía Víctores (1930-2016), center, walks along the casket of Archbishop of Guatemala Cardinal Mario Casariego y Acevedo, who died of a heart attack in Guatemala City, Guatemala, June 15, 1983. Mej

Civilians waiting for transportation congregate along a street in downtown Guatemala City, Guatemala, January 1, 1982.

A local photographer prepares to take a picture in a rural town in Huehuetenango department, Guatemala, September 1, 1982.

Local civil defense forces check a truck driver's identity papers along a mountain road in rural Huehuetenango, Guatemala, September 1, 1982.

General Benedicto Lucas García, center, receives a map reading from his base commander Colonel Byron Lima Estrada, right, at the regional military base in Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala, January 20, 1982. In 1981, the military regime and the Guate

Leaders of the Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo, PGT, pose with their weapons during a press conference with international media on the outskirts of Guatemala City, Guatemala, July 1, 1981. The brutality and escalation in violence by state military

Guatemalan Armed Forces soldiers transfer a dead soldier from a helicopter to a stretcher at an army base in the central highlands after a battle the day before with guerrillas from the Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres, EGP, in Santa Cruz del Quic

Guatemalan Army soldiers and local civilians clear a section of the Pan American Highway blocked by felled trees during the ongoing civil war, Los Encuentros, Guatemala, March 7, 1982. The trees were downed in protest by the guerrilla group Ejército

A view of a cache of weapons and propaganda materials recently seized by the military from a Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres, EGP, safe house at the regional military garrison in Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala, February 1, 1982.

A group of ethnic Maya and evangelical Protestants pray during an outdoor religious service near Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala, February 1, 1982.

An indigenous Maya man dressed as a Spanish conquistador with a horse’s head participates in a religious procession in Chichicastenango, Guatemala, May 1, 1982.

A wounded Guatemalan army soldier waits for transport after being brought for medical aid to the military hospital in Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala, January 20, 1982.

General Efraín Ríos Montt, center, stands with army soldiers during a press conference following his successful coup d'état at the National Palace in Guatemala City, Guatemala, March 23, 1982. His 17-month term as de facto head of state, in which he

Local residents and members of civil defense patrols help reconstruct a bridge destroyed by guerrillas from the Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres, EGP, with Guatemalan army engineers in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, September 1, 1982. In the central hi

Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre, the presidential candidate from the Democracia Cristiana Guatemalteca, DCG, and representing a coalition of political parties, center right, and politician Vinicio Cerezo, far right, at a campaign rally before the 1982 e

Local civil defense forces patrol along a mountain road in rural Huehuetenango, Guatemala, September 1, 1982. Organization of the Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil, civil defense patrols, PAC, began in 1981 under Lucas García's military regime and was

Guatemalan army soldiers armed with Israeli Galil assault rifles travel in a U.S.-manufactured troop transport through possible guerrilla ambush territory outside of Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala, February 1, 1982.

Ixil Maya men leave the central plaza following a Roman Catholic church service in Nebaj, Guatemala, May 1, 1984.

Local residents listen to a Guatemalan army officer speak about forming civil defense patrols to secure their villages against leftist guerrilla attacks near Huehuetenango, Guatemala, September 1, 1982.

Local civil defense forces patrol along a mountain road in rural Huehuetenango, Guatemala, September 1, 1982. Local civilians were against the government patrols as the armed guerrilla groups would treat them as enemies and the Guatemalan army would