Ghosts of Guatemala
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Ghosts of Guatemala
“In 1954, the democratically elected government of Guatemala was overthrown by the CIA.
More than 200,000 people were killed over the course of the 36-year-long civil war that began in 1960 and ended with peace accords in 1996. About 83 percent of those killed were Mayan.”
1999 report written by the U.N.-backed Commission for Historical Clarification titled “Guatemala: Memory of Silence”.
https://hrdag.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/CEHreport-english.pdf Page 13.
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