Holly's News From Washington

by Holly Burkhalter / Topic: News from Washington; Guatemala January 23, 2014
Holly Burkhalter

A DARK HISTORY

When I got my start in the international human rights movement in the late 1970s, Guatemala was the country I cared the most about. For the first 20 years of my career, I worked to try to deny U.S. military and police aid to the Guatemalan Government. The reason was clear: in those days the Guatemalan army and police were vicious death squads, responsible for hundreds of thousands of murders. The victims included university students, democratic political figures, human rights activists, and, overwhelmingly, Mayan children, men and women. 

Read More