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Guatemala

World

Destined for Export

The legacy of the Guatemelan adoption industry.

Rachel Nolan Harper's Mar 2019 30min Permalink

Best Article Crime World

A Murder Foretold

Rodrigo Rosenberg, a highly respected corporate attorney in Guatemala, began, in the spring of 2009, to prophesy his own murder. The unraveling of a political conspiracy.

David Grann New Yorker Jan 2012 55min Permalink

Business Politics

Two Towns Forged an Unlikely Bond. Now, ICE Is Severing the Connection

For years, rural Guatemalans traveled thousands of miles for jobs in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. A series of immigration raids is creating havoc in a town desperate for workers.

Monte Reel Bloomberg Businessweek Dec 2018 30min Permalink

Health

Worse Than Tuskegee

The American medical experiment in Guatemala that left hundreds with STDs.

Sushma Subramanian Slate Feb 2017 25min Permalink

World

The Secrets in Guatemala's Bones

In the face of death threats, a forensic anthropologist has spent two decades exhuming the victims of a “dirty” civil war. Now his work might help bring justice for their murders.

Maggie Jones New York Times Magazine Jun 2016 10min Permalink

World

How an Accused Guatemalan War Criminal Won U.S., Canadian Citizenship

A California martial arts instructor’s secret past.

Previously: Finding Oscar

Sebastian Rotella ProPublica Oct 2012 20min Permalink

Finding Oscar

A man living in the Boston suburbs learns he could be one of the only survivors of a 1982 massacre in Guatemala.

Sebastian Rotella ProPublica May 2012 40min Permalink