Guatemala - A History of the Guerilla War

In the early 19 sixties, as guatemala remained unequal, under developed and under the thumb of its army rulers, a guerilla war emerged. This civil war would last into the 19 nineties, as the military refused, year after year to give in to the demands of the left, the poor and the indigenous. The death toll of the guatemalan civil war, overwhelmingly caused by the military, is estimated to be as many as 200 thousand people killed.