Nate spent the months of January through April doing fieldwork in rural Guatemala in the small communities of Río Negro & Pacux, both near Rabinal, Baja Verapaz.

 

Nate conducted interviews with survivors of the three Río Negro massacres of 1982 to discuss the violence associated with the ‘development’ of the Chixoy dam – which required their displacement & the flooding of their homes – and contemporary, grassroots plans for appropriate development.

 

Nate was fortunate to be invited to participate with the surviving families in the yearly commemoration of the March 12, 1982 massacre, as seen in the photo above.