Stanley Francis Rother was an American Catholic priest from Oklahoma who was murdered during the Guatemalan Civil War. He held several parish assignments as a priest of the Diocese of Oklahoma City fr
Fernando Romeo Lucas García was a military officer and politician who served as the 37th president of Guatemala from July 1, 1978, to March 23, 1982. He was elected as the nominee for the Institutiona
Stanley Rother
…governments and leftist insurgent and protest groups, mainly composed of poor indigenous peoples. The intensity of the war increased in 1978 when Fernando Romeo Lucas García became president. The Carter Administration in the United States had cut off new military aid to Guatemala in 1977 because of human rights violations…
Official portrait, 1978
Finance Center in 2011. In 1981, a powerful bomb exploded in the basement of the building, leaving it without windows for several years. The owners -Industrial Bank- decided to keep it open to the public to defy the leftist guerrilla.