GUATEMALA

Weinberg, Bill Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) 05-14-2003 Guatemala, with one the hemisphere's highest percentages of Indians, was also the site of a brutal decades-long civil war that culminated in actual genocide against the indigenous majority just 20 years ago. Since Guatemala's return to democracy and subsequent peace accords, Maya Indians have continued to press demands for truth and justice as the only path to true reconciliation. Guerilla movements had persisted against Guatemala's military dictatorship ever since the early 1960s. But the movement didn't seriously threaten the reg...