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Photograph for interview with Roberto Méndez of HIJOS Guatemala. Jungle World Newspaper.

Fourth year without a military parade.

For the second consecutive year, the armed forces did not parade through the historic center.

HIJOS launches a public poster campaign commemorating detained-disappeared women.

HIJOS Guatemala achieves a victory: Military Parade is cancelled and March for Remembrance replaces it.

HIJOS organizes a protest in front of the Ministry of Defense and the residence of former General Humberto Mejia Victores.

HIJOS publicly condemns the recently deceased German Chupina Barahona.

Constitutional Court declares Spain has no jurisdiction in prosecuting former military leaders.

The HIJOS collective: rewrite the country’s official history on the urban walls of Guatemala City using murals.

Mural by HIJOS, Music by Semilla Urbana, Photography and stop-motion video produced by MiMundo.org.

Urban graffiti reaches the conventional masses on the streets, in their own life stages.

Protestors manage to block the military parade as they claim it adds insult to injury after the war-time atrocities.

Protestors manage to block the military parade as they claim it adds insult to injury after the war-time atrocities.

Events by human rights groups in Guatemala as National Day Against Forced Disappearances is commemorated.

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