Amy Goodman
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"Granito: How to Nail a Dictator": Film Tracks Struggle for Justice After Guatemala Genocide
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16:54Now PlayingDemocracyNow.org - A new documentary links Guatemala's turbulent past with those who are active players in its present. The film, "Granito: How to Nail a Dictator," which is part political thriller and part memoir, spans four decades, following several people as they search for the details that can be used to hold accountable those responsible for the genocide in which Guatemalan military and paramilitary soldiers killed more than 200,000 people. The film documents the movement by Mayans to seek justice after the genocide, featuring Nobel Prize-winner and indigenous Guatemalan activist, Rigoberta Menchu, who is challenging Perez in the presidential election. Democracy Now! interviews the film's co-director, Pamela Yates, who narrates the film's central story about the search for evidence of Guatemala's genocide, much of it drawn from footage she filmed in 1982 for her documentary, "When the Mountains Tremble." Also interviewed is Fredy Peccerelli, director of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation. The film documents his team's work to unearth mass graves in a search for those killed by the military, even as he faces threats from clandestine groups that want the truth to stay buried.
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