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Websites

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US Embassy (English) (Espaņol)
Official website of the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala, includes embassy offices, news releases, policy statements, and official government texts. Página oficial de la Embajada de Estados Unidos en Guatemala, que contiene boletines de prensa e información sobre la relación bilateral entre los dos países.
 
US Embassy: US Military Group, Guatemala (English) (Espaņol)
U.S. Embassy page on military objectives in Guatemala, with news briefs and articles. Página de la Embajada de Estados Unidos que contiene los objetivos del Grupo Militar de los Estados Unidos en Guatemala, con comunicados de prensa relacionados con el tema.
 

U.S. State Department, Guatemala Country Reports on Human Rights (English) (Español)
Annual report by the US Department of State that relates reported human rights violations or practices, organized categorically. Reports are available for other years. Informes anuales elaborados por el Departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos acerca de la situación de los derechos humanos en Guatemala.

 

Articles, Book Chapters, and Conference Papers

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Alpírez, Ana Carolina. "Guatemala Decertified," Washington Office on Latin America (April, 2003).
Available in English at: http://www.wola.org/publications/ddhr_guate_update_1.htm
Disponible en Español en: http://www.wola.org/publications/ddhr_guate_update_1_esp.htm

 

Chapman, Audrey R., Patrick Ball, and Patrick Donnell. The Truth of Truth Commissions: Comparative Lessons from Haiti, South Africa, and Guatemala. Human Rights Quarterly, 23:1 (Feb 2001) 1-43.

An article that examines the process and role of "truth commissions" in human rights reconciliation in the twenty-first century.
available online: subscription or university password may be required

 
Sieder, Rachel. " La justicia y la democracia en América Latina", in Jorge Solares (coord.), Pluralidad Jurídica en el unbral del siglo (Guatemala: FLACSO2000): 37-50  
Doyle, Kate, et. al. The Guatemalan Military: What the U.S. Files Reveal, Electronic Resource: National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 32, George Washington University, Guatemala Documentation Project, Guatemala City, 2000.
Available at (04-20-2004): http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB32/index.html
 
Doyle Kate and Michael Evans. National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 25: Colonel Byron Disrael Lima Estrada: Alleged Mastermind Behind the Murder of Bishop Juan José Gerardi of Guatemala, Electronic Resource, George Washington University, Guatemala Documentation Project, Guatemala City, 2000.
Available at (04-20-2004): http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB25/index.htm
 
Doyle, Kate, et. al. National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 15: Guatemalan Death Squad Dossier: Internal Military Log Reveals Fate of 183 'Disappeared,' Electronic Resource, George Washington University, Guatemala Documentation Project, Guatemala City, 2000. Available at (04-20-2004): http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB15/press.html  
Doyle, Kate and Peter Kornbluh. National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 4: CIA Assassinations: The Guatemala 1954 Documents, Electronic Resource, George Washington University, Guatemala Documentation Project, Guatemala City, 2000.
Available at (04-20-2004): http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB4/index.html
 
Doyle, Kate and Carlos Osorio. National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 11: U.S. Policy in Guatemala 1966-1996, Electronic Resource, George Washington University, Guatemala Documentation Project, Guatemala City, 2000.
Available at (04-20-2004): http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB11/docs/
 
Sieder, Rachel. "War, Peace and the Politics of Memory in Guatemala", in Nigel Biggar (ed.), Burying the Past: Making Peace and Doing Justice After Civil Conflict (Washington: Georgetown University Press, February 2001): 184-206.  
Tomuschat, Christian. Clarification Commission in Guatemala. Human Rights Quarterly 23.2 (2001) 233-258.

An article assessing the impact of the 1999 Guatemalan Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH) report that addressed human rights violations that had occurred in Guatemala over the past 35 years.
available online: subscription or university password may be required

 

Books and Monographs

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Documents

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U.S. Congress. House. "Drug Corruption and Other Threats to Democratic Stability in the Dominican Republic and Guatemala," Testimony by Paul E. Simons, Acting Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, before the International Relations Committee Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere House of Representatives, Washington, DC (October 10, 2002).
Available at (4-4-2005): http://www.state.gov/g/inl/rls/rm/2002/14264.htm