Chooseone questionto answer: Why was the state response to popular mobilization so repressive? What role did different members of the Church play during the civil war? Where there different...

Chooseone questionto answer:

1. Why was the state response to popular mobilization so repressive?


2. What role did different members of the Church play during the civil war? Where there different perspectives within the Church?


3. Why did the military persecute populations of Mayan peasants?


4. What social conditions made the "mass publics" (or general population) mobilize for change?


5. Why was the military so strong? How was it able to sustain its repression?


6. What happened at Dos Erres? Why did it happen?

Listen to this radio documentary on Guatemala’s civil war (2012, 1 hr.):

This American Life: What Happened at Dos Erres -click hereor copy and paste this link into a browser:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/465/what-happened-at-dos-erres

Also readFinding Oscar: Massacre, Memory and Justice in Guatemala -click here.
2012. Investigative reporting on the Dos Erres massacre. Riveting.