Guatemalan Archbishop Monsignor Próspero Penados del Barrio asserted i...
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- Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media whole source · open book
Guatemalan Archbishop Monsignor Próspero Penados del Barrio asserted in 1984 that “It is impossible for a human rights office to exist in Guatemala at the present time.”97 “Disappearances” as an institutional form began in Guatemala in the mid-1960s and eventually reached levels unique in the Western Hemisphere, with the total estimated to be some 40,000.98 Protest groups that have formed to seek information and legal redress have been consistently driven out of business by stateorganized murder.
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