Interesting and well done documentary about the "Dos Erres massacre".
Apparently one of several massacres and atrocities committed in Guatemala in the late 70's to the early 80's.
Story of yet another genocide in modern times. In this case the Mayan people were deemed subhuman by some of the Guatemalan government and military.
One thing not touched upon much in the movie that I found out from other sources was the sheer barbarity of the incident, comparable to the Asian and Jewish Holocausts.
One thing though that put me off about the documentary was blaming the USA. In particular blaming President Reagan. After all he was instrumental in bring down the Berlin wall and helping what was once the USSR become a democracy. We can't get his side of the story now, and it appears there was no effort to interview anyone from his administration or otherwise get a reasonable view of his policy and dealings with Guatemala. Maybe he was fooled as everyone else was. Furthermore how much can the USA (and the president) fix with all the many problems going on at the time? And for that matter what is blindly overlooked here in the equation is why is it and how was it the job of the USA to fix the world to begin with?
Pretty leftist slants. I doubt if there was a left/democrat administration at the time the president would have never been mentioned in it.
Anyhow despite the blame thing, it was a decent educational documentary.
One thing not touched upon much in the movie that I found out from other sources was the sheer barbarity of the incident, comparable to the Asian and Jewish Holocausts.
One thing though that put me off about the documentary was blaming the USA. In particular blaming President Reagan. After all he was instrumental in bring down the Berlin wall and helping what was once the USSR become a democracy. We can't get his side of the story now, and it appears there was no effort to interview anyone from his administration or otherwise get a reasonable view of his policy and dealings with Guatemala. Maybe he was fooled as everyone else was. Furthermore how much can the USA (and the president) fix with all the many problems going on at the time? And for that matter what is blindly overlooked here in the equation is why is it and how was it the job of the USA to fix the world to begin with?
Pretty leftist slants. I doubt if there was a left/democrat administration at the time the president would have never been mentioned in it.
Anyhow despite the blame thing, it was a decent educational documentary.
