Guatemala: The Violence After "La Violencia": The Guatemalan Maya And The United Nations-Brokered Peace Accords Of 1996

Guatemala: The Violence After "La Violencia": The Guatemalan Maya And The United Nations-Brokered Peace Accords Of 1996   Eduardo Jiménez Mayo, 2011   Arguably the longest civil war in modern Latin American history took place in Guatemala from 1960–1996, a period known as “La Violencia” (“The Violence”). The United Nations successfully intervened to halt the genocide of indigenous peoples resulting from the blatantly racist politics of the national government in a prolonged series of...

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