Guatemala has a history of extrajudicial forced disappearances, rooted in the Guatemalan Civil War, which took place between 1960 and 1996.² As of 2013, there are 45,000 people who were documented as disappeared during the conflict era.
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Several Guatemalan missing persons posters accompanied with a caption. "Where are they?" (Image source)