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Caribbean & Central America - May 2018 (ISSN 1741-4458)
GUATEMALA: Death of Ríos Montt highlights scars of civil war
Two important milestone dates have recently been and gone in Guatemala. The 21st anniversary of the peace agreement that ended the 1960-1996 civil war was commemorated on 29 December last year. Then, on 1 April this year, came the news that General Efraín Ríos Montt, whose 1982-1983 military regime saw some of the most brutal fighting in the war, had died at the age of 91. It might be thought that both events could represent some form of closure for Guatemalan society at large: yet the prevailing sentiment seems to be one of unfinished business and unfulfilled promises of reform.
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