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Justice in Guatemala
Claudia Paz y Paz at Berkeley, May 2013. (Photo by Megan Kang.)
Guatemalan General José Efraín Ríos Montt has been found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity and sentenced to 80 years in prison.

Claudia Paz y Paz was instrumental in bringing charges against the former dictator and seeing the trial to a successful conclusion. Paz y Paz, the attorney general of Guatemala, also secured the convictions of Guatemalan soldiers for the 1982 Dos Erres massacre.


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Right: Claudia Paz y Paz, the Attorney General of Guatemala, at Berkeley, May 2013.
(Photo by Megan Kang.)

"Shenandoah"
Isabel Allende at Berkeley
Maria Echaveste and David Turnley following the screening.
Maria Echaveste and David Turnley following the screening of "Shenandoah." (Photo by Jim Block.)

A house in Chiloe. (Photo by Carles Cerulla.)
A house in Chiloe, Chile.
(Photo by Carles Cerulla.)


Director and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer David Turnley answered questions after the screening of his documentary "Shenandoah" in conversation with Maria Echaveste, the Politics and Program Development Director at the Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy, and Harley Shaiken, professor and chair of the Center for Latin American Studies. The film examines the town of Shenandoah, and its reaction to the murder of an undocumented Mexican immigrant by members of the high school football team.

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On April 25, author Isabel Allende spoke with Berkeley professor Beatriz Manz about her new novel, Maya's Notebook, the story of a troubled young woman sent from the U.S. to the remote island of Chiloe in southern Chile to reclaim her life.

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Students from Chiloe send a virtual embrace to Isabel Allende


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