History of Latin America
Central America in the 1980s
Lecture outline
Film: "Finding Oscar"
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Above, left : Religious status dressed as soldier in Chajul, El Quiche, Guatemala. Photograph by Jean-Marie Simon, in Guatemala: Eternal Spring, Eternal Tyranny (New York: W W Norton, 1988). Above, right: Funeral procession after 53 Q'eqchi' Maya were killed by the Guatemalan military at Panzós, Alta Verapaz, 1978. Source unknown.
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An excellent website project on the Iran-contra affair from Brown University students.
The Pentagon's consideration of the "Salvador option" in Iraq, and the hindsight view of Salvadoran guerilla leader Joaquin Villalobos, later advised Colombian president Alvaro Uribe on how to fight guerilla movements there.
Guatemala: Memory of Silence: the Report of the Commission for Historical Clarification supervised by the UN.
Three military officers and a priest were later convicted in the murder of Bishop Juan Gerardi two days after he presented the Catholic Church's report Guatemala: Nunca Más, which reached similar conclusions.
Click here for Rigoberta Menchú's Nobel Peace Prize speech, and here for a synopsis of criticisms made of her work.
Film footage of the trial of Rios Montt, who died April 2018.