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Podcast: The Cosmopolitan
Episode: Learning from the Afterlife of Genocide: Chronicles of Guatemala.
Description: Podcast: GDP - The Global Development Primer (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Learning from the Afterlife of Genocide: Chronicles of Guatemala.Pub date: 2022-10-27Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe Guatemalan genocide was the systematic murder of Maya civilians during the government rule in the 1970s and 1980s.  Some 200,000 lives were taken by military and paramilitary operations during this era, all the while the government denied it was occurring. Governments are notoriously lousy at hiding secrets forever, and the military dictatorship in Guat...