“…this link between the Maya and the guerrillas eventually became an idée fixe for the government, who promulgated an ideology that perceived all Maya as natural allies of the insurrection, and thus as enemies of the state. The natural extension of this belief was the deliberate targeting of the civilian population, in order to ‘starve’…
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Where do you imagine this is? Syria? Sinai, perhaps? No. Latin …
Where do you imagine this is? Syria? Sinai, perhaps? No. Latin America in the 1980s. Guatemala, Argentina, El Salvador. None of what is happening is new. Not the brutality of the army against indigenous tribes, not the creation of armed groups to fight them, and to fight each other, not the indiscriminate devastation among the…