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Mexico
Guatemala: Is This Peace?
The civil war ended six years ago. Although Guatemala’s uprooted are trying to rebuild their lives, extreme poverty, violence, distrust, and fear remain. During Guatemala’s 36-year civil war, more than a million people were driven from their homes. This spring, I visited the country to see how, six years after the signing of “a firm […]
![A displaced family from the community of Los Cimientos in the Ixil regio (Michael Flynn/Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 2002)](https://www.globaldetentionproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2002/11/Desplazados-in-Los-Cimientos-IxilGuatemala-Michael-Flynn-2002.jpg)
Donde Esta La Frontera?
IN THE EARLY MORNING OF DECEMBER 3, 2001, Kanu Okany Patel, a 35- year-old undocumented migrant from Gujarat, India, furtively made his way to the bathroom of a government-run detention center in Guatemala City, tied one end of a sturdy cord he’d secretly stripped from a window curtain around his neck, the other around a […]
![Mexico Migrant Train - Sebastiao Salgado - Flynn/Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists August 2002](https://www.globaldetentionproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2002/08/Mexico-Migrant-Train-Sebastiao-Salgado-FlynnBulletin-of-the-Atomic-Scientists-August-2002.jpg)