Just read an article from the BBC about a recent ruling against four military officers who took part in a massacre during Guatemala's "armed conflict" (which is what they call it here). These four men received life in prison (terms of over 6000 years, or 30 years for each of the 200+ people who died during the massacre). This is a good start to bringing about some justice and hopefully will show that people will not be exempt from standing trial for human rights abuses that happened decades ago. Hopefully the impunity can end now and a more open dialogue can start up, beginning with the current presidential candidate ahead in the polls, Pérez Molina, who was a member of the military in the 1980s and 1990s. I guess we'll see what happens, but this is good news for Guatemala.
That's all for now. I feel some gripe (a cold) coming on so I should probably try to get some extra sleep to try to fight it off. Feliz noche!
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