by Cyril Mychalejko (Reprinted from Toward Freedom–please check out their “AFGJ-recommended” website at: http://www.towardfreedom.com/ ) One generally overlooked feature of Guatemalan government and military’s 36-year (1960-96) genocidal counterinsurgency campaign against the country’s Mayan population is the strategy of targeting women with violence.
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Educational Delegation to Guatemala
PRE-ELECTIONS DELEGATION: The Struggle to End Impunity and Construct Democracy Join a Rights Action delegation to Guatemala from July 3 to 10, 2011. This pre-elections delegation will speak with human rights and social movement organizations struggling to create conditions for true democracy, and limit the control organized crime and big business hold over the state…
