Gustavo was a founding leader of the Guerrilla Army of the Poor – a rebel group that took up arms against the military dictatorship in Guatemala in the early 1980s; and he granted Pamela Yates permission to film with the rebels in the highlands in 1982 when she was making When the Mountains Tremble. Unlike many of his comrades, Gustavo survived the conflict in Guatemala but was forced to go into hiding for many years. Later Gustavo joined with the Nobel Peace Laureate, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, as the Director of the Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation. And in a remarkable twist of fate he is now the director of the Historic Archives of the National Police project, preserving and cataloguing the many thousands of police records that were discovered by accident in 2005. In a landmark case, Gustavo and his team’s work at the archives project led, in 2010, to the sentencing of two former police officers to 40 years in prison for the forced disappearance of Fernando Garcia.

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  • Garcijua001

    Hola Gustavo Meono, me llamo Juan.

    El maestro Hazo enseno un articulo de su trabajo. Me parecio muy impresionante el valor que tenia. Admiro lo que iso por hacer justicia que fue ser fundador del Ejercito Guerrillero de los pobres.

    Me asombra todo el desarollo que tuvo que aser durante la guerra civil de Guatemala. Espero que en la corte internacional se aga justicia por los genocidio y los cargos que hay en Guatemala. Con largas esperas de pruebas como testimonios y entrevistas justicia si sera posible.

    Deseo que las evidencias forensica de Guatemala sirvan para que el mundo vea la presentacion de muertos que causo la Guerra civil de Guatemala. En conclusion el esfuerso que iso me paresio asombroso. Gustavo Meono es una persona de gran valor.

    Sinceramente Juan G

  • Destroyer

    y que logro ese gordo payaso? se debería ir a vivir a cuba o a Venezuela con chavez payasos y todo este proyecto para lucrar con dinero ajeno en base a esta mentira no es mas que una copia moderna del holocausto, mentirosos contando su versión de la historia y dando lastima