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Online Discussion
Read an archived discussion with FRONTLINE/World
Fellow Brent McDonald on Washingtonpost.com.
Producer: Angela Morgenstern;
Designed by: Susan Harris, Fluent
Studios; see full
web credits.
This report was inspired
by the book "Paradise
in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror and Hope,"
written by Beatriz Manz and published in 2004 by UC Press.
Some music provided courtesy of the public
radio series "Despues De Las Guerras: Central America After the
Wars" produced by GraciasVida Productions and funded by the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting. To find out more about the series and
its coverage of how Central Americans are faring in the years
after the the bloody conflicts of the 1980's. Visit
the series site.
Some photographs courtesy of Ken Silverman
and Father Luis Gurriaran Lopez.
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In
the spring of 2004, FRONTLINE/World Fellow Brent McDonald
followed Berkeley anthropologist Beatriz Manz to Central America
to uncover the history of a village that was caught in the crossfire
of Guatemala's civil war. Two decades after a brutal government
massacre, the people of Santa Maria Tzejá are still coping
with the legacy of violence and the return of those who had fled
to Mexico. Their plight has drawn the attention of Guatemala's
new government, which is trying to acknowledge a painful past
and reconcile a divided population. Watch this story unfold in
six short videos, as McDonald makes his journey of discovery.
