Photo: James Rodriguez, mimundo.org.
From 2-5 Eastern time today in Washington, DC, I will be among the moderators at a special event at the New America Foundation, “Genocide in Our Hemisphere: Justice and Reconciliation in Guatemala Beyond the Conviction of General Ríos Montt.”
You can watch live online, the event will be streamed here.
Featured speakers at the event include scholars, massacre survivors, and people who were directly involved in the genocide trial of Ríos Montt, which ended with a guilty verdict on May 10, only to be thrown out ten days later in an unprecedented move by Guatemala’s Constitutional Court.
More on the event in this Boing Boing post. If you’re in DC and wish to attend, it is free, but it’s best to sign up online.