Guatemala: Information regarding a political group called "Dynamic Youth", ties between the MLN party and death squads, recruitment of children into civil patrols and violence in the 1985 elections
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 August 1990 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | GTM6613 |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Guatemala: Information regarding a political group called "Dynamic Youth", ties between the MLN party and death squads, recruitment of children into civil patrols and violence in the 1985 elections, 1 August 1990, GTM6613, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6acf328.html [accessed 14 October 2022] |
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As discussed by telephone, information on a group under the name Dynamic Youth or similar names and their possible translation could not be found among the sources currently available to the IRBDC. The entry on a group called "Organized Youth of the People at Arms" is included among the attached pages on the MLN (Movimiento de Liberación Nacional) party of the book Latin American Political Movements (London: Longman Publishing Group, 1986), pp. 142-144.
For references to MLN involvement with death squads and party forces, two comments on violence or intimidation during the 1985 elections, as well as recruitment of children in civil patrols and the involvement of political parties in them, please find attached the following documents:
-Civil Patrols in Guatemala (New York/Washington, D.C.: Americas Watch, 1986), pp. 26-27, 45-48;
-Gift of the Devil, (New York: Between The Lines, 1984), pp. 166-169;
-Guatemala: Eternal Spring - Eternal Tyranny (New York/London: W. W. Norton & Co., 1987), pp. 200-201, 204-205, 223;
-Guatemala: False Hope, False Freedom (London: Latin America Bureau/Catholic Institute for International Relations, 1989), pp. 82-83;
-Political Parties of the World (London/Chicago: St. James Press, 1988), p. 242.
