Guatemalan Genocide on Trial
Guatemala achieved a breakthrough for justice today with the opening of the landmark criminal trial of Efraín Ríos Montt, former military dictator, for genocide and crimes against humanity. Ríos Montt,...
View ArticleA Market for Children: Adoption Fraud in Guatemala
by Ariel Gould Erin Siegal, Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, recently donated one bankers-size box of documents about US citizens’ adoptions of Guatemalan children...
View Article“Intellectual Authors” of Guatemalan Forced Disappearances Convicted.
Guatemala City—On September 20, a Guatemalan tribunal convicted the former director of the National Police of Guatemala, retired Col. Héctor Bol de la Cruz, and his subordinate Jorge Alberto Gómez...
View ArticleHappy International Right to Know Day (Tomorrow)! The Archive Celebrates with...
Revelations of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) global surveillance programs, which many feel go beyond acceptable levels of tacitly understood surveillance practices, have brought much-needed...
View Article“GRANITO: How to Nail a Dictator” now available on iTunes
Granito: How to Nail a Dictator, the acclaimed documentary about the fight for justice in Guatemala, is now available on iTunes. In a startling loop of time and memory, Granito: How to Nail a Dictator...
View ArticleThe New York Times Magazine Highlights Archive Partner Fredy Peccerelli
Fredy Peccerelli – Guatemala’s foremost forensic anthropologist and longtime partner of the National Security Archive’s Guatemala Documentation Project – is profiled in The New York Times Sunday...
View ArticleNew Identification of Guatemala’s Disappeared
The Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation (FAFG) has confirmed the identification of one of the victims associated with the notorious “Death Squad Diary,” or Diario Militar, a Guatemalan military...
View ArticleWhy Does Sen. Rubio Want to Stop U.S. Funding for Crime-Fighting Commission...
Washington, DC—Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) took to the floor of Congress yesterday to voice his support for the international organized crime-fighting commission in Guatemala, CICIG. Leahy’s statement...
View ArticleGuatemalan President Shuts Down UN-Backed Anti-Corruption Probe, Taliban...
Guatemalan President Shuts Down UN-Backed Anti-Corruption Probe Guatemalan president Jimmy Morales recently announced he will not renew the mandate of the UN-backed anti-corruption probe, the...
View ArticleWeekend Read: Guatemalan Judge Orders New Trials Based on Death Squad...
By Claire Harvey Exactly 23 years ago on May 20, 1999, the National Security Archive published the “Diario Militar”, a detailed document also known as the “Death Squad Dossier” that was smuggled out...
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