Did Guatemala's President Try to Shut Down the Genocide Trial?

[Catherina]

3. in the Ixil area today listening to the stories of men and women who survived horrible things

12 APRIL
-- We have been in the Ixil area today listening to the stories of men and women who survived horrible things.... We are now in the village of Cotzal, meeting with other Ixil people to hear their stories, and their thoughts about the Montt trial.

-- We are in the home of a widow in Cotzal, an aldea in the Ixil area of Guatemala; her husband was disappeared.



-- Dinner, Cotzal, Ixil region, Guatemala. La casa de Doña Juana, who was kidnapped and sexually abused by soldiers. pic.twitter.com/UECAHNCKpn



(Yes, that is literally dinner for the poor. Corn tortillas. Sometimes a little beans. )

-- Family photos on the wall in Doña Juana's house, Cotzal, Ixil region, Guatemala.


-- Graffiti we have seen along the road today in Guatemala, all in Spanish or Ixil: “The forests belong to the Ixil people,”

-- No to mining & hydroelectric dam,” “forests & rivers belong to the people, not to corporations,” & others re Ixil property rights.

-- Walking to site of a clandestine cemetary exhumation in progress in Xexuxcap, near Nebaj, Ixil area, Guatemala.


-- Ixil woman works in her field; mule looks on. Xexuxcap, Quiché, Guatemala. Ixil area, focal point of armed conflict.