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Guatemala’s war may be over, but the battle continues to be fought on women’s bodies

“The soldiers ambushed me,” says a woman named Maria Castro, now 59, in this video by photojournalists Ofelia de Pablo and Javier Zurita. “My little girl was with me. She was very frightened and she cried, but the soldier threw me to the ground. I remember there were three of them who raped me, but I don’t know how many more because I lost consciousness.” When they returned home, Maria’s husband rejected her for surviving the indignity of rape. Her daughter had seen everything.

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