11.05.2013 - 07:13 [ PBS Newshour ]

As Rios Montt Trial Nears End, a Look Back at U.S. Role in Guatemala‘s Civil War

We also found this MacNeil/Lehrer Report piece from Nov. 30, 1983, on the debate over the U.S. role in Guatemala. It was filmed just after the Reagan administration announced the end of a five-year embargo on military shipments to Guatemala, citing human rights progress and claiming that Ríos Montt had been given a „bum rap.“