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![Guatemala: A Curtain of Silence](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Made one year after Cerezo’s election, this tape looks at the history of oppression, torture and genocide after the 1954 Arbenz coup backed by the CIA and at the request of the United Fruit company. The program, featuring interviews, explores the genocide experienced within the indigenous race, the disappeared, the army influence and the response of the families of those killed.
![Guatemala 1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Jose Ortiz , a former Guatemalan guerrilla fighter, describes the civil war. He recounts the origins of the conflict from Nov 13, 1960, the history of the war which would last over thirty years, to the conclusion of the fighting in 1996.
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