During my fieldwork, I talked to survivors of the Guatemalan genocide (1980-1982) to determine how their lives had been affected by the civil war.

A garrison state for more than forty years, Guatemala was home to the longest and bloodiest civil war in Central American history. The roots of that war go back to an almost-forgotten CIA ...

At the time, Guatemala was in the midst of a bloody civil war that started in 1960 and didn’t end until the signing of peace accords in 1996. Armed forces repeatedly attacked the village of Sepur ...

Thomas Haines and six other members from his church congregation landed in central Guatemala on a mission to meet the local people and establish a sister parish. It ...

As part of the Northern Triangle, along with El Salvador and Honduras, Guatemala is considered one of the world’s most dangerous places. Still recovering from a deadly, decades-long civil war that ...

“Guatemalans began to come to Oregon in the 1970s, fleeing the civil war,” Lynn Stephen says, referring to the Guatemalan civil war that lasted 36 years and killed over 200,000 people. Stephen is a ...