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GUATEMALA: GOVERNMENT AND LEFTIST REBELS AGREE TO CEASE FIRE
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Central America's longest war is finally over.
Leftist rebels and government negotiators have agreed to a permanent cease-fire. The move ends a civil war that had lasted 36 years and taken 140-thousand lives.
The rebels...
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Former dictator allowed to stand election, presser plus FILE
Guatemala City, Guatemala - July 15 2003
1. Wide of people standing outside Congress building
2. Police entering armoured vehicle
3. Med shot of Congress entrance
4. Question: "are you afraid of those who wabt to distabilize you for...
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GUATEMALA: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS UPDATE
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Turnout was low Sunday in Guatemala's third presidential election in ten years despite a cease-fire called by rebels.
The rebels are eager to work with a new government in order to end three decades of...
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VOICED : Victims of Guatemalas dictatorship ask fo
VOICED : Victims of Guatemalas dictatorship ask fo
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VOICED : Victimas de la dictadura en Guatemala pid
El expresidente guatemalteco Efrain Rios Montt sera juzgado nuevamente por genocidio en enero de 2015 VOICED : Victimas de la dictadura en Guatemala pid on December 13, 2013 in Guatemala City, Guatemala (Footage by AFP/Getty Images)
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Guatemala - General Molina sworn in as president / Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt appears in criminal court in genocide case / Former elite soldier sentenced to over 6000 years in prison for 1982 massacre / Gunmen storm nightclub and open fire on the dance floor - eight people dead and over 25 needing emergency hospital treatment
On January 15th retired General Otto Perez Molina was sworn in as President of Guatemala, promising to quash a wave of drug trafficking and violence that has overwhelmed the Central American country.
Perez won over voters by pledging to...
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VOICED : Guatemala retoma juicio a exdictador
VOICED : Guatemala retoma juicio a exdictador
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CLEAN : FILE: Court sends ex Guatemalan dictator to psychiatric hospital
CLEAN : FILE: Court sends ex Guatemalan dictator to psychiatric hospital
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CLEAN : Carlos the Jackal back in court in France
CLEAN : Carlos the Jackal back in court in France
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CLEAN : Court sends ex Guatemalan dictator to psychiatric hospital
CLEAN : Court sends ex Guatemalan dictator to psychiatric hospital
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Former dictator to face trial over murder, torture and displacement of Mayan Indians
1. Tracking shot of former Guatemalan dictator Jose Efrain Rios Montt walking into court
2. Close of Rios Montt inside the court
3. Mid of people outside the court waiting for judge's decision
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Miguel Angel...
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GUATEMALA: CONTRAST BETWEEN 2 BROTHERS
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Two brothers at opposite ends of Guatemala's political and religious spectrum have become living symbols of tense conflict raging between the church and the state.
Mario Rios Montt is a Catholic bishop who recently became the...
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Polling stations open, top Colom campaign official shot
1. Wide of voting centre
2. Voters lining up
3. Close of voters
4. Election propaganda of candidate Colom
5. Close newspaper
6. Wide voters reading paper
7. Elections officials and ballots
8. Medium of ballots being counted
9. Very...
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Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt's retrial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity was postponed on Monday, dismaying victims who have long sought to see him punished for the massacre of thousands of Mayan Indians during his 1982-83
Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt's retrial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity was postponed on Monday, dismaying victims who have long sought to see him punished for the massacre of thousands of Mayan Indians...
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GUATEMALA: FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER WINS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
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A former foreign minister who promised to further democracy in Guatemala proclaimed himself winner Monday in the presidential runoff.
Alvaro Arzu, leader of the Advanced National Party, beat a rival who had planned to include...
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Profile of Guatemalan ex-dictator
Guatemala City, Guatemala - November 4, 2003
1. Pro-Efrain Rios Montt political rally
2. Cutaway of woman
3. UPSOUND (Spanish): Efrain Rios Montt, Presidential Candidate:
"This is a very important thing we have to do today, the law is...
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Former dictator under house arrest in case of dead journalist
SHOTLIST: ***NO SLATE AT START OF STORY*** (Stories Run Back To Back)
Guatemala City - 8 March 2004
1. Wide shot exterior of Justice Department and traffic passing
2. Mid shot of exterior Justice Department, then zoom in to sign
3....
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Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt appears in criminal court in genocide case
Guatemala City, Guatemala - 26 January, 2012
1. Various of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt during trial
2. Mid of indigenous leaders and others in public gallery at trial
3. Various of indigenous people attending trial
4....
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GUATEMALA: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: REACTIONS (2)
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There have been mixed reactions in the Guatemalan capital following the convincing victory by Alfonso Portillo in Sunday's presidential elections.
Portillo, an admitted killer and friend of a former dictator in the country's...
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Trial opens of former dictator Rios Montt accused of genocide
1. Wide pan of trial of former Guatemalan dictator General Efrain Rios Montt
2. Close of Rios Montt sitting in courtroom
3. Close of Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu who is attending the trial in support of the victims
4. Mid...
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FILE: JUSTICE IN CHILE
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The British court ruling earlier this week denying Chile's Augusto Pinochet immunity from prosecution has unleashed political tremors amongst Latin American countries which suffered dictatorships during the 70's and 80's.
A...
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Guatemalans use portraits, museum to seek those missing for decades
The faces of Guatemala's disappeared civil war victims are turning up on the walls of the capital.
Relatives of the disappeared and their supporters are using buckets of glue to stick photocopied flyers with portraits of the...
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GUATEMALA: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: REACTIONS
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There have been mixed reactions in the Guatemalan capital following the convincing victory by Alfonso Portillo in Sunday's presidential elections.
Portillo, an admitted killer and friend of a former dictator won the...