Someone to Talk To | Historical Context
Guatemala
Though other Central American governments have mounted violent counterinsurgency campaigns, the description of the Indians' persecution in "Someone to Talk To" bears a strong resemblance to the history of Guatemala in the 1980s. Though the Guatemalan army had used death squads to quash insurgents since the 1960s, the slaughter of political dissidents and their alleged supporters reached a bloody peak in the early 1980s, due in part to the strong support of the Reagan administration. In 1983, Reagan lifted an earlier ban on military aid to Guatemala. The United States...
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