Word: guatemalans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time Everardo was the highest-ranking member of the military wing of the URNG, the United Front of Guatemalan Guerrillas, a Mayan rebel group...
Everardo disappeared on March 12, 1992 after the group of rebels he was leading was attacked by a Guatemalan army patrol. The Guatemalan army maintained that Everardo committed suicide to evade capture, but Harbury believed her husband was alive and being held in a clandestine torture center...
...April 1995, President Clinton ordered an investigation into the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) role in Everardo's murder. The inquiry was started after Rep. Robert G. Torricelli (D-N.J.), now a U.S. senator, released documents suggesting Everardo had been murdered by a Guatemalan general on the CIA's payroll and that agency officials attempted to cover up the death...
...knew Everardo had been captured and where he was and what information he was providing the Guatemalan army a few days after his capture," Pertierra said. "The U.S. claimed it had no knowledge about Everardo until Torricelli came forth...
Harbury denounced the Guatemalan government at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva in March 1996 and filed a civil-rights suit against officials in the CIA, State Department and National Security Council, according to her book...