Word: guatemala
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...were you specifically interested in Guatemala...
...Well, we've done films in every country of Central America. At the time we went to do When The Mountains Tremble there had been no serious film on Guatemala. To this day there really is almost no film material on Guatemala. Yet the level of the war there was every bit as awful and as serious as the war in EI Salvador, and the United States was becoming involved. We wanted to break that wall of silence...
...think the regime in Guatemala is the most brutal in Central America...
...have to understand that Guatemala is ruled by the military. What's made them different from the militaries in other dictatorships has been that this small group of officers have become players in the country's economy. They've begun to take over industry and agriculture and become no longer simply the protector of the dominant class, but have actually become part of the dominant class themselves. Through their repression or whatever means they use to maintain themselves, they're doing it very much to maintain the spoils of that power...
...there been any improvement in Guatemala over the last thirty years...