Killings Of Guatemala's Indigenous Activists Raise Specter Of Human Rights Crisis

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Indigenous groups and human rights activists in Guatemala worry that the violence that raged through their communities in the 1970s and 1980s is making a comeback.

 

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Who did they vote for?

I have friends and relatives that witnessed people being killed by a machete. I arrived in this country when I was 6. The boys couldn't stop drawing pictures of helicopters, guns, and blood. 😥😥

To NPR: your article is a rehash, how about a solution(s), now that will be something new.

they are related to the theft of electricity, extortion and other criminal activities of the people involved. There has been a reduction in murder rates 60% in the last 12 years. Murder now is mostly a consequence of extortion related crimes.

Clicking the little heart on this just feels so wrong. If we could make the little heart bleed, perhaps

some might say this is a passive aggressive story to justify a wall

they need to fight back!!!

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