LEGACY OF LIES: EL SALVADOR 1981-1984
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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LEGACY OF LIES: EL SALVADOR 1981-1984
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 Black & White

An Ixil Maya man sits for a picture in Nebaj, Guatemala, January 1, 1984. The state-sponsored counterinsurgency campaign Operation Sofía was characterized by massacres and indiscriminate oppression that specifically targeted the Ixil Maya population

Army soldiers fire on local Maya people from a US-made Bell helicopter co-piloted by Guatemalan army General Benedicto Lucas García outside of Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala, January 1, 1982. Scorched earth was a brutal counterinsurgency tactic em

A dirt road winds through the highland areas of San Juan Cotzal, Guatemala, January 20, 1982. The Ixil Maya town was in turmoil after 300 leftist guerrillas from the Guerrilla Army of the Poor, EGP,  attacked the Guatemalan army base camp leavi

The winner of the 1982 presidential elections, General Ángel Aníbal Guevara, center, seated, looks on with political party leaders at a press conference March 25, 1982 following a military coup d’etat March 23, 1982 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Gen

Two Ixil Maya women, Juana Cordova Marroquin, 20 years, left, and Manuela Cordova Ordoñez, 19 years, right, retrieve water following an early morning gun battle between 300 leftist guerrillas from the Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres, Guerrilla Ar

A young Ixil Maya girl wearing a traditional head dress, left, sits for a picture with her brother and sister in Nebaj, Guatemala, January 1, 1984.

Civilians watch as President Efraín Rios Montt arrives for a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Guatemala City, Guatemala, October 20, 1982. Rios Montt’s brief presidency (March 1982-August 1983), in which he installed a military regime, dissolv

A military-style band begins playing near the Presidential Palace, where President Efraín Rios Montt arrives for a ceremony in Guatemala City, Guatemala, October 20, 1982.

Guatemalan army soldiers stand in their base camp following a guerrilla attack a day earlier on January 19, 1982 in San Juan Cotzal, Guatemala. The Ixil Maya town and army were in turmoil after 300 leftist guerrillas from the Guerrilla Army of the P

A crowd in Sololá, Guatemala listen to speeches from the expected candidate General Ángel Aníbal Guevara during the presidential election campaign, February 26, 1982. Handpicked to succeed outgoing president Fernándo Romeo Lucas García, Guevara was

Petrona Brito, 45 years, left, sits next to her husband, Señor Brito, in Nebaj, Guatemala, January 1, 1984.

Guatemalan army soldiers form patrols to search for armed militants from the Guerrilla Army of the Poor, EGP, following an attack 24-hours earlier on January 19, 1982 in San Juan Cotzal, Guatemala.

Graffiti in support of leftist insurgent groups collects on a wall in the University of San Carlos campus in Guatemala City, Guatemala, March 1, 1982.

Army soldiers check identity cards of bus passengers along the Pan American Highway to Chichicastenango, Guatemala, March 1, 1982.

Army soldiers direct a suspected leftist guerrilla into a building for interrogation in the military compound in Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala, January 1, 1982.

An Ixil Maya mother, Ana Raymundo Brito, 34 years, and 3 of her 12 children pose for a picture in Nebaj, Guatemala, January 1, 1984.

A young Ixil Maya girl, Clara Luz Brito Raymundo, 9 years, wearing a traditional head dress stands for a picture in Nebaj, Guatemala, January 1, 1984.

Dignitaries leave the funeral ceremony of Mario Cardinal Casariego, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Guatemala, in Guatemala City following his heart attack on June 15, 1983.

Local K'iche Maya residents reenact the Spanish conquest of the Americas at an event during the Fiesta de Santo Tomás, Chichicastenango, Guatemala, December 20, 1981. The seven day festival is a syncretism of Catholic traditions, honoring the city's

Members of the Knights of Columbus wearing their formal dress attend the funeral ceremony for Mario Cardinal Casariego, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Guatemala, who died of a heart attack on June 15, 1983, in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Mario Card

Members of the Knights of Columbus wearing their formal dress attend the funeral ceremony for Mario Cardinal Casariego, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Guatemala, who died of a heart attack on June 15, 1983, in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Mario Card

An Ixil Maya family, Josefa Cedillo Marcos, left, 13 years, Juana Cedillo Perez, center, 6 years, Josefa's niece, and Josefa's mother, right, sit for a picture in Nebaj, Guatemala, January 1, 1984.

Women walk along a downtown street October 15, 1982 in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Guatemalan army soldiers and unidentified locals clear a section of the Pan American Highway blocked by felled trees during the civil war in Los Encuentros, Guatemala March 7, 1982. The trees were cut by the Guerrilla Army of the Poor, or EGP, to bl

A stone Roman Catholic church stands in a rural highland area of El Quiché department, Guatemala, January 1, 1984. Guatemala was introduced to the Catholic religion during the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 16th century.

Graffiti in support of leftist insurgent groups and anti-government posters collect on a wall in the University of San Carlos campus in Guatemala City, Guatemala, March 1, 1982. The university served as an active space of resistance throughout the d

Two Ixil Maya brothers wearing name tags sit for a picture in Nebaj, Guatemala, January 1, 1984.

Wooden religious statues stand near the front altar of a Catholic church in Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala, January 1, 1982.

Guatemala schoolgirls sit in a classroom in Comalapa, Guatemala, February 1, 1982.

A Guatemalan laborer stands near his temporary home along the Guatemalan-Mexican border in northwest Guatemala, January 1, 1983.

An extended Maya family stands for a photograph in the rural highlands of El Quiché, Guatemala, May 1, 1984.

An Ixil Maya woman wearing a traditional head dress stands for a picture in Nebaj, Guatemala, January 1, 1984.