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- Title
- Guatemalan Army Directs Residents To Form Civil Defense Patrols In Huehuetenango
- Date
- 1982-09-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Local residents listen to a Guatemalan army officer, center, speak about forming civil defense patrols to secure their villages against leftist guerrilla attacks near Huehuetenango, Guatemala, September 1, 1982. The Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil, civil defense patrols, PAC, were composed of members of rural communities particularly in the heavily indigenous northwest of the country and were directed with coercion and force by the Guatemalan Armed Forces. PACs effectively institutionalized military power at the local level by infiltrating and dissolving community loyalties and reorienting them to serve counterinsurgency efforts. The state regime was able to effectively recapture all guerrilla territory at an enormous cost in civilian deaths.
- Subject
- Central America; Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Psychological warfare; Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil (PAC)
- Country
- Guatemala
- Local Identifier
- guatemala_ct_0078_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96927
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- Title
- Guatemalan Army Directs Residents To Form Civil Defense Patrols In Huehuetenango
- Date
- 1982-09-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Local residents listen to a Guatemalan army officer, center, speak about forming civil defense patrols to secure their villages against leftist guerrilla attacks near Huehuetenango, Guatemala, September 1, 1982. The Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil, civil defense patrols, PAC, were composed of members of rural communities particularly in the heavily indigenous northwest of the country and were directed with coercion and force by the Guatemalan Armed Forces. PACs effectively institutionalized military power at the local level by infiltrating and dissolving community loyalties and reorienting them to serve counterinsurgency efforts. The state regime was able to effectively recapture all guerrilla territory at an enormous cost in civilian deaths.
- Subject
- Central America; Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Psychological warfare; Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil (PAC)
- Country
- Guatemala
- Local Identifier
- guatemala_ct_0083_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96932
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- still image
- Title
- Guatemalan Army Directs Residents To Form Civil Defense Patrols In Huehuetenango
- Date
- 1982-09-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Local residents listen to a Guatemalan army officer, left, speak about forming civil defense patrols to secure their villages against leftist guerrilla attacks near Huehuetenango, Guatemala, September 1, 1982. The Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil, civil defense patrols, PAC, were composed of members of rural communities particularly in the heavily indigenous northwest of the country and were directed with coercion and force by the Guatemalan Armed Forces. PACs effectively institutionalized military power at the local level by infiltrating and dissolving community loyalties and reorienting them to serve counterinsurgency efforts. The state regime was able to effectively recapture all guerrilla territory at an enormous cost in civilian deaths.
- Subject
- Central America; Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Psychological warfare; Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil (PAC)
- Country
- Guatemala
- Local Identifier
- guatemala_ct_0088_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96937
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- still image
- Title
- Guatemalan Army Directs Residents To Form Civil Defense Patrols In Huehuetenango
- Date
- 1982-09-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Local residents listen to a Guatemalan army officer speak about forming civil defense patrols to secure their villages against leftist guerrilla attacks near Huehuetenango, Guatemala, September 1, 1982. The Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil, civil defense patrols, PAC, were composed of members of rural communities particularly in the heavily indigenous northwest of the country and were directed with coercion and force by the Guatemalan Armed Forces. PACs effectively institutionalized military power at the local level by infiltrating and dissolving community loyalties and reorienting them to serve counterinsurgency efforts. The state regime was able to effectively recapture all guerrilla territory at an enormous cost in civilian deaths.
- Subject
- Central America; Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Psychological warfare; Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil (PAC)
- Country
- Guatemala
- Local Identifier
- guatemala_ct_0075_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96924
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- still image
- Title
- Guatemalan Army Directs Residents To Form Civil Defense Patrols In Huehuetenango
- Date
- 1982-10-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Local residents listen to a Guatemalan army officer speak about forming civil defense patrols to secure their villages against leftist guerrilla attacks near Huehuetenango, Guatemala, October 1, 1982. The Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil, civil defense patrols, PAC, were composed of members of rural communities particularly in the heavily indigenous northwest of the country and were directed with coercion and force by the Guatemalan Armed Forces. PACs effectively institutionalized military power at the local level by infiltrating and dissolving community loyalties and reorienting them to serve counterinsurgency efforts. The state regime was able to effectively recapture all guerrilla territory at an enormous cost in civilian deaths.
- Subject
- Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Psychological warfare; Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil (PAC)
- Country
- Guatemala
- Local Identifier
- guatemala_nb_0092_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96817
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- Title
- Guatemalan Army Directs Residents To Form Civil Defense Patrols In Huehuetenango
- Date
- 1982-10-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Local residents listen to a Guatemalan army officer, right, speak about forming civil defense patrols to secure their villages against leftist guerrilla attacks near Huehuetenango, Guatemala, October 1, 1982. The Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil, civil defense patrols, PAC, were composed of members of rural communities particularly in the heavily indigenous northwest of the country and were directed with coercion and force by the Guatemalan Armed Forces. PACs effectively institutionalized military power at the local level by infiltrating and dissolving community loyalties and reorienting them to serve counterinsurgency efforts. The state regime was able to effectively recapture all guerrilla territory at an enormous cost in civilian deaths.
- Subject
- Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Psychological warfare; Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil (PAC)
- Country
- Guatemala
- Local Identifier
- guatemala_nb_0093_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96818
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- still image
- Title
- Guatemalan Army Directs Residents To Form Civil Defense Patrols In Huehuetenango
- Date
- 1982-10-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Local residents listen to a Guatemalan army officer speak about forming civil defense patrols to secure their villages against leftist guerrilla attacks near Huehuetenango, Guatemala, October 1, 1982. The Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil, civil defense patrols, PAC, were composed of members of rural communities particularly in the heavily indigenous northwest of the country and were directed with coercion and force by the Guatemalan Armed Forces. PACs effectively institutionalized military power at the local level by infiltrating and dissolving community loyalties and reorienting them to serve counterinsurgency efforts. The state regime was able to effectively recapture all guerrilla territory at an enormous cost in civilian deaths.
- Subject
- Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Psychological warfare; Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil (PAC)
- Country
- Guatemala
- Local Identifier
- guatemala_nb_0094_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96819
- mods_typeOfResource_mt
- still image
- Title
- Guatemalan Army Directs Residents To Form Civil Defense Patrols In Huehuetenango
- Date
- 1982-10-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Local residents listen to a Guatemalan army officer, left, speak about forming civil defense patrols to secure their villages against leftist guerrilla attacks near Huehuetenango, Guatemala, October 1, 1982. The Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil, civil defense patrols, PAC, were composed of members of rural communities particularly in the heavily indigenous northwest of the country and were directed with coercion and force by the Guatemalan Armed Forces. PACs effectively institutionalized military power at the local level by infiltrating and dissolving community loyalties and reorienting them to serve counterinsurgency efforts. The state regime was able to effectively recapture all guerrilla territory at an enormous cost in civilian deaths.
- Subject
- Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Psychological warfare; Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil (PAC)
- Country
- Guatemala
- Local Identifier
- guatemala_nb_0099_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96824
- mods_typeOfResource_mt
- still image
- Title
- Guatemalan Military Shows Leftist Guerrilla Banners Found In Huehuetenango
- Date
- 1982-09-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Local residents watch as Guatemalan army soldiers show captured banners made by militant guerrilla group Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres, Guerrilla Army of the Poor, EGP, in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, September 1, 1982. EGP emerged in 1967 from dissident factions of the guerrilla organization Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes, Rebel Armed Forces, FAR, Catholic followers of liberation theology, and students affiliated with the Juventud Patriótica del Trabajo, JPT, a youth wing of the Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo, Guatemalan Labor Party, PGT. EGP established themselves in the highlands where civilian support for their cause was high. Among their demands were land reform, access to healthcare, and a respect for human rights, particularly for the Maya population of the country.
- Subject
- Central America; Guatemala; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Psychological warfare; Marxism-Leninism; Communism; Ejército Guerillero de los Pobres (EGP)
- Country
- Guatemala
- Local Identifier
- guatemala_ct_0073_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96922
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- still image
- Title
- Guatemalan Military Shows Leftist Guerrilla Banners Found In Huehuetenango
- Date
- 1982-09-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Local residents watch as Guatemalan army soldiers show captured banners made by militant guerrilla group Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres, Guerrilla Army of the Poor, EGP, in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, September 1, 1982. EGP emerged in 1967 from dissident factions of the guerrilla organization Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes, Rebel Armed Forces, FAR, Catholic followers of liberation theology, and students affiliated with the Juventud Patriótica del Trabajo, JPT, a youth wing of the Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo, Guatemalan Labor Party, PGT. EGP established themselves in the highlands where civilian support for their cause was high. Among their demands were land reform, access to healthcare, and a respect for human rights, particularly for the Maya population of the country.
- Subject
- Central America; Guatemala; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Psychological warfare; Marxism-Leninism; Communism; Ejército Guerillero de los Pobres (EGP)
- Country
- Guatemala
- Local Identifier
- guatemala_ct_0076_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96925
- mods_typeOfResource_mt
- still image
- Title
- Guatemalan Military Shows Leftist Guerrilla Banners Found In Huehuetenango
- Date
- 1982-10-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Local residents watch as Guatemalan army soldiers show captured banners made by militant guerrilla group Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres, Guerrilla Army of the Poor, EGP, in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, October 1, 1982. EGP emerged in 1967 from dissident factions of the guerrilla organization Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes, Rebel Armed Forces, FAR, Catholic followers of liberation theology, and students affiliated with the Juventud Patriótica del Trabajo, JPT, a youth wing of the Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo, Guatemalan Labor Party, PGT. EGP established themselves in the highlands where civilian support for their cause was high. Among their demands were land reform, access to healthcare, and a respect for human rights, particularly for the Maya population of the country.
- Subject
- Guatemala; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Psychological warfare; Marxism-Leninism; Communism; Ejército Guerillero de los Pobres (EGP)
- Country
- Guatemala
- Local Identifier
- guatemala_nb_0095_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96820
- mods_typeOfResource_mt
- still image
- Title
- Guatemalan Military Shows Leftist Guerrilla Banners Found In Huehuetenango
- Date
- 1982-10-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Local residents watch as Guatemalan army soldiers show captured banners made by militant guerrilla group Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres, Guerrilla Army of the Poor, EGP, in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, October 1, 1982. EGP emerged in 1967 from dissident factions of the guerrilla organization Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes, Rebel Armed Forces, FAR, Catholic followers of liberation theology, and students affiliated with the Juventud Patriótica del Trabajo, JPT, a youth wing of the Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo, Guatemalan Labor Party, PGT. EGP established themselves in the highlands where civilian support for their cause was high. Among their demands were land reform, access to healthcare, and a respect for human rights, particularly for the Maya population of the country.
- Subject
- Guatemala; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Psychological warfare; Marxism-Leninism; Communism; Ejército Guerillero de los Pobres (EGP)
- Country
- Guatemala
- Local Identifier
- guatemala_nb_0096_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96821
- mods_typeOfResource_mt
- still image
- Title
- Guatemalan Military Shows Leftist Guerrilla Banners Found In Huehuetenango
- Date
- 1982-10-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Local residents watch as Guatemalan army soldiers show captured banners made by militant guerrilla group Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres, Guerrilla Army of the Poor, EGP, in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, October 1, 1982. The brutality and escalation in violence by state military forces led EGP to join the Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes, Rebel Armed Forces, FAR, Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo, Guatemalan Labor Party, PGT, and Organización Revolucionario del Pueblo en Armas, Revolutionary Organization of People in Arms, ORPA, to establish the guerrilla coalition Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca, Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity, URNG, in February of 1982. URNG and the Guatemalan government signed the UN-brokered "Accord for a Firm and Lasting Peace" on December 29, 1996, ending over three decades of conflict.
- Subject
- Guatemala; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Psychological warfare; Marxism-Leninism; Communism; Ejército Guerillero de los Pobres (EGP); Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (FAR); Organización Revolucionario del Pueblo en Armas (ORPA); Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo (PGT); Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG)
- Country
- Guatemala
- Local Identifier
- guatemala_nb_0097_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96822
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- still image
- Title
- Guatemalan Military Shows Leftist Guerrilla Banners Found In Huehuetenango
- Date
- 1982-10-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- A Guatemalan army soldier stands amongst local residents showing captured banners made by militant guerrilla group Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres, Guerrilla Army of the Poor, EGP, in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, October 1, 1982. The brutality and escalation in violence by state military forces led EGP to join the Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes, Rebel Armed Forces, FAR, Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo, Guatemalan Labor Party, PGT, and Organización Revolucionario del Pueblo en Armas, Revolutionary Organization of People in Arms, ORPA, to establish the guerrilla coalition Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca, Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity, URNG, in February of 1982. URNG and the Guatemalan government signed the UN-brokered "Accord for a Firm and Lasting Peace" on December 29, 1996, ending over three decades of conflict.
- Subject
- Guatemala; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Insurgency; Guerrilla warfare; Psychological warfare; Marxism-Leninism; Communism; Ejército Guerillero de los Pobres (EGP); Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (FAR); Organización Revolucionario del Pueblo en Armas (ORPA); Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo (PGT); Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG)
- Country
- Guatemala
- Local Identifier
- guatemala_nb_0098_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96823
- mods_typeOfResource_mt
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- Title
- Indigenous Maya Women Speak Mam Next To A Roman Catholic Church In Rural Hueheuetenango
- Date
- 1982-09-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Indigenous Maya women speak Mam as they sit next to a Roman Catholic church in rural Huehuetenango, Guatemala, September 1, 1982. The Mam peoples live primarily in the western highlands of Guatemala and southwestern Mexico. Catholicism was introduced to the region during the Spanish colonization of the Americas. In the following centuries, forced conversion and other methods to indoctrinate indigenous communities into the Roman Catholic Church produced a syncretism of Catholicism and native Maya traditions.
- Subject
- Central America; Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Religion; Daily life; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples
- Country
- Guatemala
- Local Identifier
- guatemala_ct_0087_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96936
- mods_typeOfResource_mt
- still image
- Title
- Local Civil Defense Patrol In Huehuetenango
- Date
- 1982-09-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Local civil defense forces patrol along a mountain road in rural Huehuetenango, Guatemala, September 1, 1982. Organization of the Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil, civil defense patrols, PAC, began in 1981 under Lucas García's military regime and was institutionalized after the coup d'état that brought Ríos Montt to power. The PACs were composed of members of rural communities particularly in the heavily indigenous northwest of the country and were directed with coercion and force by the Guatemalan Armed Forces.
- Subject
- Central America; Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Psychological warfare; Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil (PAC)
- Country
- Guatemala
- Local Identifier
- guatemala_ct_0070_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96919
- mods_typeOfResource_mt
- still image
- Title
- Local Civil Defense Patrol In Huehuetenango
- Date
- 1982-09-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- A member of a local civil defense force stands for a photograph in rural Huehuetenango, Guatemala, September 1, 1982. The Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil, civil defense patrols, PAC, were composed of members of rural communities particularly in the heavily indigenous northwest of the country and were directed with coercion and force by the Guatemalan Armed Forces. PACs effectively institutionalized military power at the local level by infiltrating and dissolving community loyalties and reorienting them to serve counterinsurgency efforts. The state regime was able to effectively recapture all guerrilla territory at an enormous cost in civilian deaths.
- Subject
- Central America; Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Psychological warfare; Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil (PAC)
- Country
- Guatemala
- Local Identifier
- guatemala_ct_0074_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96923
- mods_typeOfResource_mt
- still image
- Title
- Local Civil Defense Patrol In Huehuetenango
- Date
- 1982-09-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Local civil defense forces patrol along a mountain road in rural Huehuetenango, Guatemala, September 1, 1982. Organization of the Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil, civil defense patrols, PAC, began in 1981 under Lucas García's military regime and was institutionalized after the coup d'état that brought Ríos Montt to power. The PACs were composed of members of rural communities particularly in the heavily indigenous northwest of the country and were directed with coercion and force by the Guatemalan Armed Forces.
- Subject
- Central America; Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Psychological warfare; Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil (PAC)
- Country
- Guatemala
- Local Identifier
- guatemala_ct_0077_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96926
- mods_typeOfResource_mt
- still image
- Title
- Local Civil Defense Patrol In Huehuetenango
- Date
- 1982-09-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Local civil defense forces patrol along a mountain road in rural Huehuetenango, Guatemala, September 1, 1982. Organization of the Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil, civil defense patrols, PAC, began in 1981 under Lucas García's military regime and was institutionalized after the coup d'état that brought Ríos Montt to power. The PACs were composed of members of rural communities particularly in the heavily indigenous northwest of the country and were directed with coercion and force by the Guatemalan Armed Forces.
- Subject
- Central America; Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Psychological warfare; Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil (PAC)
- Country
- Guatemala
- Local Identifier
- guatemala_ct_0080_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96929
- mods_typeOfResource_mt
- still image
- Title
- Local Civil Defense Patrol In Huehuetenango
- Date
- 1982-09-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- A member of a local civil defense force shows off his rifle as men listen to a local official before heading out to patrol along a mountain road in rural Huehuetenango, Guatemala, September 1, 1982. Organization of the Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil, civil defense patrols, PAC, began in 1981 under Lucas García's military regime and was institutionalized after the coup d'état that brought Ríos Montt to power. The PACs were composed of members of rural communities particularly in the heavily indigenous northwest of the country and were directed with coercion and force by the Guatemalan Armed Forces.
- Subject
- Central America; Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Military; Counterinsurgency; Human rights violations; Civilian casualties; Psychological warfare; Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil (PAC)
- Country
- Guatemala
- Local Identifier
- guatemala_ct_0081_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96930
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