A social project I made, on the affects of nations pursing there national interests, and its affects on the international community. This is on the Guatemalan Civil War which lasted for 36 years. Stats: UN and Compassion International Music: "Breathe Me" - Sia & mixture of MC Solaar
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During Guatemala's civil war, victims of the government's death squads were buried in unmarked graves. Now they are being exhumed in independent efforts to identify them. But scientists are facing a number of hurdles. Al Jazeera's Teresa Bo reports from the capital, Guatemala City.
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From the TV Catalunia show Trenta Minuts. Atrocities of the guatemalan civil war.
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Authorities in Guatemala say they have seized hundreds of weapons and made several arrests in a crackdown against suspected drug gangs. The province of Alta Verapaz in Guatemala's indigenous highlands has been under a state of emergency, as government forces try to root out traffickers from neighbouring Mexico. Soldiers are patrolling towns in the area. Their mission is to dismantle the criminal organisations and to help the local police to restore order, according to Col Marco Tulio Vasquez. The Zetas drug gang, however, has threatened all-out war in their latest message to be broadcast on local radio stations. Al Jazeera's Craig Mauro reports from the city of Coban, in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala.
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"I blame the war on drugs in the United States for what is happening here in Guatemala." --Giancarlo Ibarguen Most of the cocaine shipped north from Central and South America these days travels through Guatemala and into Mexico before eventually crossing the border to the United States. The value of that cocaine, even before it enters the US market, is approximately $40 billion a year. That's nearly the size of Guatemala's entire economy. The drug cartels in Guatemala act with impunity and effectively control much of the country. As Guatemala's President Alvaro Colom recently told Al Jazeera, "The drug traffickers are much better armed and financed than our military and our government." Guatemala, as a result, has become a very dangerous place to live. What's the solution? According to Giancarlo Ibarguen, president of the Universidad Francisco Marroquin, the US government should end its war on drugs.Approximately 5 minutes. Produced by Paul Feine and Alex Manning. Go to reason.tv for downloadable versions and subscribe to Reason.tv's YouTube Channel to receive automatic notification when new material goes live.
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uzonphoto.com uzonreport.com These are recent crimes. You can still see fear in these faces. Its hard to believe that the genocide in Guatemala happened just over 20 years ago. There are almost no photos of it. Guatemalas tragedy doesnt have the place it merits in the history of infamy perhaps for this reason: there are no photos. Or there arent many, if we take into account the images James Natchwey, Jean-Marie Simon or Alon Reininger, along with a few others, made of Guatemala in the 1970s and 1980s. In any case, what was happening in Guatemala at that time faded into the background of the story of the triumph and eventual electoral defeat of the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua, or the war in El Salvador. The signing of peace treaties on December 29, 1996 opened a space in Guatemalan society for slowly discovering the sad legacy of 36 years of armed conflict. Less than two years later, on April 26, 1998, Bishop Juan Gerardi was murdered two days after presenting a report on the human rights violations that had taken place during the war. These dates opened and shut a particular moment of history in Guatemala, cutting short the debate on the origins of and responsibilities for a conflict that left more than 200000 victims, most of them Mayan. Today, when the dead come from a place that we didnt know existed until a few months ago, its prudent to remember that the Cold War in Latin America was red hot. These photos are dedicated to Guatemalan journalist Ricardo Miranda ...
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Diane M. Nelson, author of Reckoning: The Ends of War in Guatemala (Duke University Press, 2009), discusses the impact of the decades long civil war on the people of Guatemala.
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Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina has told Al Jazeera that the US-led regional war against drug trafficking is being lost and requires a change in strategy.
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Guatemala in the 1950s.
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United Nations, New York, December 2011 - In Guatemala, the drug war rages on as deadly cartels from neighbouring Mexico set their sights on parts of the country. But many of Guatemala's youth are fighting back, not through violence, but by making their voices heard. Can it make a difference? 21st Century - Show 61 - Guatemala: The War on Drug Violence, Youth Taking Back Control Script (pdf): www.un.org
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Sister Dianna Ortiz (a US citizen) speaks of her ordeal in Guatemala after she was abducted and tortured. She identified the leader of the gang which abducted her as a fellow citizen of the US.
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This is an edited piece from the War on Democracy by John Pilger with all the excerpts relevant to Guatemala.
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An infamous Guatemalan army unit is waging war on Mexico's cartels, but some of its soldiers have swapped sides. The name of the special ops unit in the Guatemalan army strikes fear in those who remember the ruthless methods of this elite US-trained group. The Kaibiles are infamous for their role in killing civilians during Guatemala's civil war. Their mission has since changed to help fight drug trafficking, but now they are faced with fighting their own civil war. Renegade and retired members of Kaibiles have been recruited by Mexico's Zetas drug gang especially in the Peten and Alto Verapaz regions bordering Mexico. They are being used to train the Zetas in the art of military warfare and the use of explosives. Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman meets the Kaibiles in the Peten province of Guatemala.
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war skunk guatemala metal music video music production and edition by Omar Escalante
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1954 Guatemalan coup d'état en.wikipedia.org The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état was a covert operation organized by the United States Central Intelligence Agency to overthrow Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán, the democratically-elected President of Guatemala. Árbenz's government put forth a number of new policies, such as seizing and expropriating unused, unfarmed land that private corporations set aside long ago and giving the land to peasants. The US intelligence community deemed such plans communist in nature. This led CIA director Allen Dulles to fear that Guatemala would become a "Soviet beachhead in the western hemisphere". Dulles' concern reverberated within the CIA and the Eisenhower administration, in the context of the anti-communist fears of the McCarthyist era. Árbenz instigated sweeping land reform acts that antagonized the US-based multinational United Fruit Company, which had large stakes in the old order of Guatemala and lobbied various levels of the US government to take action against Árbenz. Both Dulles and his brother were shareholders of United Fruit Company. The operation, known by the code name Operation PBSUCCESS, lasted from late 1953 to 1954. The CIA armed and trained an ad-hoc "Liberation Army" of about 400 fighters under the command of a then-exiled Guatemalan army officer, Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, and used them in conjunction with a complex and largely experimental diplomatic, economic, and propaganda campaign. The CIA established the Voice of ...
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Sep 2003 Nearly a decade after the civil war ended in Guatemala, people are still 'disappearing'. But this hasn't stopped others from speaking out. Rosalind Tuyac's father and husband were both murdered during the civil war. Unlike countless others, she refuses to suffer in silence. She has formed a widows' group and is pressing the government for compensation. "For many of us, the wounds and scars of violence are still there," she explains. However condemning the government is a dangerous business in Guatemala. Especially when General Rios Montt, the man behind some of the worst atrocities during the war, controls the parliament and is standing for president. Many want him to be prosecuted for war crimes but he is protected by his parliamentary immunity. Dozens of government critics are still murdered or 'disappeared' every few months. But the voices for change are becoming louder. And they're becoming harder and harder to silence. Produced by ABC Australia Distributed by Journeyman Pictures
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Edit of the series of section referring to Guatemala. The War of the World: A new history of the 20th century. First shown on Channel 4 in June--July 2006 Niall Ferguson presents a major six-part series proposing an explosive challenge to common assumptions about the 20th century. This, he argues, comprised a single Hundred Years' War powered, not by nationalism, but by empires. It was race, not class or socialism, that was the 'big idea', and ethnic conflict ultimately underpinned the violence.
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From the farmers to the traders, the cartels to the consumers, we assess the efecctiveness and the economics of the 'war on drugs'.
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July 2003 Children forced to scavenge a living on the rubbish dumps of Guatemala are being given the chance to turn their lives around - thanks to photography lessons from an ex-Reuters photographer. Nancy McGirr was once one of the world's top war photographers. She covered a string of major conflicts until, sickened by the level of political violence, she decided to do something different. Now she runs a charity dedicated to helping the poorest children of Guatemala. Produced by ABC Australia Distributed by Journeyman Pictures
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