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Article: THE MISSION ENDS: MINUGUA LEAVES GUATEMALA.
- Article from:
- NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs
- Article date:
- December 2, 2004
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MINUGUA is gone. The acronym for the UN Verification Mission in Guatemala has become a household word throughout the country, and the institution for which it stands has been the international guarantor of the security of many of those households for a decade. MINUGUA officially came to Guatemala in November 1994, authorized by one of the agreements that would become part of the December 1996 Peace Accords, ending 36 years of internal war between the state and the group of guerrilla armies that formed the Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG).
Initially, the mission was to oversee and verify respect for human rights, an impossible task in the ...