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Helen Mack

One of Guatemala’s most well-known human rights activists. She is the president of the Myrna Mack Foundation, named after her sister — an anthropologist who was assassinated in Guatemala on Sept. 11, 1990. Helen spent 14 years bringing the officers and generals responsible for her sister’s murder to justice. She recently attended and monitored parts of the Ríos Montt genocide trial.

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