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On the morning of June 18. 1954, the US CIA dropped leaflets in Guatemala City demanding the resignation of the presiden | dG1fdklra3hWWmgzX28
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00:00On the morning of June 18, 1954, the CIA dropped leaflets in Guatemala City, demanding the
00:18resignation of the president. This action destabilized the region and became the catalyst for war.
00:30An entire generation of Guatemalan children lost their families. People fleeing violence
00:53created some of the largest slum communities in Latin America.
00:59Gangs are looking for places with a lot of children. And there is one place with a lot of children.
01:07The lack of security and the lack of justice that you see today is a direct result of the conflict.
01:14More people are dying now than the people who were dying during the civil war.
01:20That's a different kind of war. That's what we have now. It's still a war.
01:26But hope is rising. There are some victims who willfully embrace the pain of their past,
01:38in order to help repair the next generation. They're asking beautiful questions and responding
01:46with their lives.

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