Chixoy Dam: No Reparations, No Justice, No Peace

In the early 1980s, at the height of the Guatemalan internal conflict, genocide and repression, the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank invested close to $1 billion in the Chixoy hydroelectric dam project. Thirty-two Mayan Achi communities were forcibly and illegally displaced to make way for the dam, and hundreds of indigenous people were massacred. […]