PHOTO GALLERY

GUATEMALA

October 2010

Julio Solorzano & Sandra Schulberg in front of one of the NUREMBERG posters positioned in 100 locations around Guatemala City.

The press conference (Oct 12, 2010), moderated by Julio Solorzano (center), featured presentations by Sandra Schulberg (left) and Louisa Fernanda Rivas of the Police Archives (right).

The press conference was held at the Hotel Pan American. Left to right: Julio Solorzano, Mercy Quemé of CALDH, Luisa Fernanda Rivas & Sandra Vi, both of the Police Archives.

Alberto Fuentes, Deputy Director of the National Police Archives (pictured at the main entrance to the administration building), gave me a personal tour of the Archives.

Entrance to the area of the complex that still contains documents as they were found, jumbled ceiling-high, and having suffered water & mildew damage and the depredations of rats and bats.

Alberto Fuentes & Sandra Schulberg at the Archivo Historico de la Policia Nacional
October 12, 2010, Guatemala.

Human rights activist Julio Solorzano Foppa and his sister Silvia before the NUREMBERG premiere. Their mother, Alaida Foppa, and their two brothers were killed by Guatemala's military regime.

The NUREMBERG audience for the premiere screening at the Teatro Nacional numbered 2000 people. I couldn't believe it — the place was full!

Backstage at the Teatro Nacional: (left to right) Julio Solorzano; Sandra Schulberg; Elsa Son, Viceministra de Cultura; Ramón Cadena, Director de la Comisión Internacional de Juristas (CIJ); and Edgar Barillas of the cinema producers association, AGACINE

The audience consisted of approximately 100 high school students, plus teachers, other interested townspeople and clergy, and members of Rigoberta Menchu's staff.

Some of the teachers who attended the Rabinal screening of NUREMBERG in the Salon Municipal.

Some of the students after the screening.

Julio and I visited the main Rabinal cemetery first, which has colorful and elaborate mausoleums.

Then we made our way to the more modest Catholic cemetery a little further down the road.

This young man, who had lost family members in the massacres, showed us to the mass graves.

Each marker lists the names of the deceased and states: "Los responsables de esta masacre fueron el Ejercito de Guatemala y los Patrulleros Autodefensa Civil de Rabinal, y los Responsables gozan de libertad."