How 36 Mayan Women in Guatemala Came Together to Prosecute Their Attackers

These crimes happened during the darkest period of the war that subsumed Guatemala for more than three decades. From 1982 to 1983, the country’s then-dictator, Efraín Ríos Montt, ordered his U.S.-supported military to eradicate guerrilla opposition. It was a brutal period in a conflict that, in total, saw more than 200,000 people killed or disappeared, … Read more