The Guatemalan genocide, also referred to as the Maya genocide, or the Silent Holocaust, was the mass killing of the Maya Indigenous people during the Guatemalan Civil War by successive Guatemalan mil
Excavation of the corpses of victims of the Guatemalan Civil War in Comalapa, Chimaltenango, 2003.
Glorious victory, mural by Diego Rivera which satirizes the role of the US, the United Fruit Company, the Catholic Church and the military in the Guatemalan coup of 1954.
Mayan men carrying the remains of their families after an exhumation in Alta Verapaz department, Guatemala.
Merida Fresken Pacheco 15 Diego de Landa
The Guatemalan Civil War was fought from 1960 to 1996 between the government of Guatemala and various leftist rebel groups. The Guatemalan government forces committed genocide against the Maya populat
Guatemalan genocide
…as the Maya genocide (Genocidio maya), or the Silent Holocaust (Holocausto silencioso), was the mass killing of the Maya Indigenous people during the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996) by successive Guatemalan military governments that first took power following the CIA-instigated 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état. Massacres…
President Manuel Estrada Cabrera's official portrait from his last presidential term; during his government, the American United Fruit Company became a major economic and political force in Guatemala
Entrance to the United Fruit Company headquarters. The multinational fruit company launched the coup over the distribution of vacant land.
John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State of the Eisenhower administration and board member of the United Fruit Company.
General Jorge Ubico Castañeda.