Cold War and Genocide in Guatemala

WNMU History Professor Dr. Andy Hernández joins us via Zoom to discuss Guatemala’s 36-year civil war. He examines the 1954 CIA-sponsored coup that ousted President Jacobo Arbenz as a starting point for the violence that only intensified in the international context of the Cold War. Repression and violence in Guatemala reached a peak in the early years of the 1980s with genocidal campaigns
that directly targeted Mayan people. The civil war ended in 1996 with a UN-brokered peace negotiation, but the legacies of that period still resonate in present day Guatemala.

Andy Hernández is a Professor of History at Western New Mexico University. He
completed his B.S. in History at Texas Christian University, his M.A. at New Mexico State
University, and his Ph.D. at the University of New Mexico. His publications include
articles on attempts to build an interoceanic canal across Nicaragua and a survey of
violence in South Texas relating to the Mexican Revolution and the Plan de San Diego.

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