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University of Missouri (MA, Journalism) Occupation. Financial & economic reporter. Employer. BridgeNews. Parent. Lehman Lee & Vera Lewis. Larry Dale Lee, (16 October 1958 – 28 December 1999) was an American financial and economic journalist for BridgeNews who was found stabbed to death in his apartment in Guatemala City, Guatemala. [ 1]
The Dos Erres massacre of 6 December 1982 took place in Dos Erres, a small village in the municipality of La Libertad, in the northern Petén department of Guatemala. The name of the village, occasionally given as "Las Dos Erres", literally means "two Rs", originating from two brothers called Ruano who received the original land grant.
Stanley Rother. Stanley Francis Rother (/ ˈroʊθər / ROH-thər; March 27, 1935 – July 28, 1981) was an American Catholic priest from Oklahoma who was murdered in Guatemala in 1981. He had worked as a missionary priest there since 1968. He held several parish assignments as a priest of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City from 1963 to 1968 ...
Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano (November 28, 1960 – May 10, 2009) was a Guatemalan attorney. Before his death, Rosenberg recorded a video message saying if he were murdered, Álvaro Colom Caballeros, President of Guatemala, Gustavo Alejos, Sandra Torres de Colom, and Gregorio Valdés would have been directly responsible. [1]
Dianna Ortiz. Dianna Mae Ortiz (September 2, 1958 – February 19, 2021) was an American Roman Catholic sister of the Ursuline order. While serving as a missionary in Guatemala, during its civil war, she was abducted on November 2, 1989 by members of the Guatemalan military, detained, raped, and tortured for 24 hours before being released.
The Guatemalan genocide, also referred to as the Maya genocide, [3] or the Silent Holocaust [5] (Spanish: Genocidio guatemalteco, Genocidio maya, or Holocausto silencioso), was the mass killing of the Maya Indigenous people during the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996) by successive Guatemalan military governments that first took power following the CIA instigated 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
Bárcena, Villa Nueva, Guatemala Department: 2 A 21-year-old Basilio Martínez Avila killed two people with a machete at an agricultural school near Guatemala City. He wounded 15 others before being overpowered by other students. [1] [2] [3] Panzós massacre [4] May 29, 1978: Panzós: 30-60: Residents of village of Panzós were killed by the army
Military. Signature. José Rafael Carrera y Turcios (24 October 1814 – 14 April 1865) was the president of Guatemala from 1844 to 1848 and from 1851 until his death in 1865, after being appointed President for life in 1854. During his military career and presidency, new nations in Central America were facing numerous problems: William Walker ...