Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Marta Molina with Spanish translation by Lela Kiran – WNN Justice (WNN/WNV) Guatemala City, GUATEMALA, SOUTH AMERICA: In Guatemala, the trial against former General Efraín Ríos Montt, who terrorized the country during his brief dictatorship in the early 1980s, continues. The general has been accused of killing hundreds of indigenous Guatemalans, and he is being [...]
WNN Justice (WNN/IPS) Guatemala City, GUATEMALA, SOUTH AMERICA: “In the garrison they had rooms where they would rape us; sometimes there were three, four or five soldiers,” testified Rosa Pérez* in court, one of the women ‘used’ by the Guatemalan army as a sex-slave during the country’s civil war, where conflict in the region lasted [...]
