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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Guatemalan army soldiers armed with Israeli-supplied Galil assault rifles listen to orders before moving out in search of leftist insurgents that attacked the army base one day earlier in San Juan Cotzal, Guatemala, January 20, 1982. Despite its aby

Local male residents listen to a Guatemalan army officer, left, speak about forming Civil Defense Patrols to secure their villages against leftist guerrilla attacks near Huehuetenango, Guatemala on October 1, 1982. The Patrols effectively institutio

Guatemalan army Colonel Lima Estrada looks over captured weapons and explosives found in a Guerrilla Army of the Poor, EGP, safe house outside of Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala, February 1, 1982. Col. Lima Estrada was the commander of the El Quich

Members of a local Civil Defense Patrol stand for a photograph in the town square in Todos Santos, Guatemala on September 1, 1982.

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

A woman observes a Civil Defense Patrol checkpoint in rural Huehuetenango, Guatemala, September 1, 1982.

Local Civil Defense Patrol members on duty along a mountain road in rural Huehuetenango, Guatemala on September 1, 1982. The patrol members were at times given antiquated U.S.-made M-1 carbines.

Mario Cardinal Casariego, (1909-1983), the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Guatemala, stands for a photograph in front of Iglesia Central in Guatemala City, Guatemala, February 1, 1983. Cardinal Casariego died June 15, 1983 from a heart attack shortly

Guatemalan army Colonel Lima Estrada looks over captured weapons and explosives found in a Guerrilla Army of the Poor, EGP, safe house outside of Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala, February 1, 1982. Col. Lima Estrada was the commander of the El Quich

Guatemalan army Colonel Lima Estrada, left, checks on two wounded soldiers brought for medical aid to the army garrison in Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala, January 20, 1982.

Guatemalan army soldiers transfer a dead soldier from a helicopter to a stretcher in Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala, January 20, 1982. On January 19, 1982, the Guerrilla Army of the Poor, EGP, attacked the army garrison in San Juan Cotzal, 60 mile

Local Civil Defense Patrol members patrol along a mountain road in rural Huehuetenango, Guatemala on September 1, 1982. The Civil Defense Patrols effectively institutionalized military power at the local level by infiltrating and dissolving communit

Guatemalan army soldiers oversee men lining up to vote in the presidential election in Sololá, Guatemala on March 7, 1982. General Ángel Aníbal Guevara was declared the winner of the election, which was then widely denounced as fraudulent. A militar

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

Guatemalan army soldiers, armed with Israeli-supplied Galil assault rifles, and unidentified locals clear a section of the Pan American Highway blocked by felled trees during the ongoing civil war in Los Encuentros, Guatemala March 7, 1982. The tree

Local male residents and members of Civil Defense Patrols help reconstruct a bridge destroyed by members of the Guatemalan Army of the Poor, EGP, with Guatemalan army engineers in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, October 1, 1982.

A member of a local Civil Defense Patrol speaks to a reporter in rural Huehuetenango, Guatemala, September 1, 1982.

Members of a local Civil Defense Patrol check a truck driver's identity papers along a mountain road in rural Huehuetenango, Guatemala, September 1, 1982.

Guatemalan army soldiers armed with Israeli-supplied Galil assault rifles travel in a U.S. manufactured troop transport through possible guerrilla ambush terrain outside of Santa Cruz del Quiché on February 1, 1982. Despite its abysmal human rights

A local Civil Defense Patrol holds a meeting in the village square in Todos Santos, Guatemala on September 1, 1982.

An Ixil Maya woman sits for a photograph inside the Pensíon Ardavin in Nebaj, Guatemala on January 1, 1984.

An Ixil Maya couple, Petrona Brito, left, and Señor Brito, right, with the wife wearing a traditional head dress, sit for a picture in Nebaj, Guatemala January 1, 1984. During the mid-1980’s, the Guatemalan army forced Señor Brito to join a Civil De

Josefa Cedillo Marcos, left, 13 years, Juana Cedillo Perez, center, 6 years, and cousin of Josefa, and Señora Cedillo Marcos, right and mother of Josefa, sit for a photograph in the Pensíon Ardavin in Nebaj, Guatemala on January 1, 1984. Josefa Cedi

Older sister Cedillo Marcos, 5 years, left, Pedro Cedillo Marcos, center, 2 years, Marcelina Cedillo Marcos, right, 4 years, sit for a photograph in the Pensíon Ardavin in Nebaj, Guatemala on January 1, 1984. Marcelina Cedillo Marcos grew up to be a

A young Maya woman prays during the visit of Pope John Paul ll in Guatemala City, Guatemala, March 7, 1983. During his visit, the Pope condemned the country’s human rights atrocities and the state’s violence and oppression against its indigenous May

A cross is raised by a Guatemalan work crew during preparations for an open air mass by Pope John Paul ll in Guatemala City, Guatemala, February 26, 1983. Religion played a fundamental role in the civil war for both the guerrilla insurgency, who sym

Pope John Paul ll greets the crowd at his open air mass in Guatemala City, Guatemala on March 7, 1983. During his visit, the Pope condemned the country’s human rights atrocities and the state’s violence and oppression against its indigenous Maya pop

A Guatemalan man with a face mask of a bull stands against a wall during a festival near the Roman Catholic church of Santo Tomás in Chichicastenango, Guatemala, May 1, 1982.

Local residents watch as Guatemalan army soldiers show captured banners made by the militant guerrilla group Guerrilla Army of the Poor, EGP, in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, October 1, 1982.

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

Ixil Maya men leave the central plaza following a Roman Catholic Church service in Nebaj, Guatemala on January 1, 1984. Religion played a fundamental role in the civil war for both the guerrilla insurgency, who sympathized with the socially progress

Guatemalan Defense Minister Brigadier General Óscar Mejía Víctores, 1930-2016, center, walks along the casket of Cardinal Casariego, Archbishop of Guatemala, who died June 15, 1983 from a heart attack following the March 1983 visit of Pope John Paul