“The memory hidden by the main “section” of the “security forces” during the more than three decades of dirty war (1960-1996) is that these were regimes whose bloody maintenance cost the lives of 250,000 dead and disappeared, according to #humanrights organizations. Some say that there were 400,000 victims of killings, torture, mass rapes and mutilations.

Portraits of a country that has become “an immense, nameless grave,” in the words of Kate Doyle, director of the #Guatemala Documentation Project. Part of the list of “Victims of the Massacres” is engraved in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Guatemala.

“There were entire cabinets classified according to the theme: Murders, Missing Persons and Homicides. There were photographs of bodies and prisoners, lists of informants, with names and photos, video tapes and computer diskettes,” admits the chief archivist and advisor of the #US National Security Archive, Trudy Huskamp.    
And what's more, lists with the names of children of dead guerrillas and the families that adopted them as their own or simply to serve them. 

“In my book [Leonardo Severo] “The CIA against Guatemala – Social movements, media and disinformation” (Editora Papiro, May 2015), with a preface by my friend Paulo Cannabrava Filho, I recall the victories achieved by the Guatemalan revolution (1944-1954) and denounce its enemies.

These were historic advances, I point out, the result of a process initiated in 1945 by President Juan José Arévalo with the implementation of the Labor and Social Security Code, and radically deepened by his successor, Jacobo Árbenz, with nationalizations, investments in infrastructure and agrarian reform.

What was a milestone for the continent, immortalized in the poetry of Chilean Pablo Neruda and in the murals of Mexican Diego Rivera, unfortunately became a blackout inoculated into collective forgetfulness by the corporate media.” /4

[Excavation of the corpses of victims in Comalapa, Chimaltenango.]
#humanrights