{"id":5497,"date":"2013-05-20T12:50:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T17:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=5497"},"modified":"2013-05-20T12:50:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T17:50:21","slug":"the-three-heroines-of-guatemala-the-judge-the-attorney-general-and-the-nobel-peace-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2013\/05\/20\/the-three-heroines-of-guatemala-the-judge-the-attorney-general-and-the-nobel-peace-laureate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Three Heroines of Guatemala: The Judge, the Attorney General and the Nobel Peace Laureate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Guatemalan President Efrain Rios Montt was hauled off to prison last Friday. It was a historic moment, the first time in history that a former leader of a country was tried for genocide in a national court. More than three decades after he seized power in a coup in Guatemala, unleashing a US-backed campaign of slaughter against his own people, the 86-year-old stood trial, charged with genocide and crimes against humanity. He was given an 80-year prison sentence. The case was inspired and pursued by three brave Guatemalan women: the judge, the attorney general and the Nobel Peace Prize laureate. More <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/democracynow\/the-three-heroines-of#play\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Guatemalan President Efrain Rios Montt was hauled off to prison last Friday. It was a historic moment, the first time in history that a former leader of a country was tried for genocide in a national court. More than three decades after he seized power in a coup in Guatemala, unleashing a US-backed campaign &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2013\/05\/20\/the-three-heroines-of-guatemala-the-judge-the-attorney-general-and-the-nobel-peace-laureate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Three Heroines of Guatemala: The Judge, the Attorney General and the Nobel Peace Laureate<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5498,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497\/revisions\/5498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}