During the Internal Armed Conflict in Guatemala, thousands of families fled to the mountains and forests to escape military persecution and genocide. In 1993, the Communities of Population in Resistance (CPRs) organized a historic “walk-in.” 200 people, including NISGUA members, journalists, and religious leaders, hiked into the CPR’s concealed communities in the Ixil-Sierra region, while another 200 traveled to the CPRs in the Ixcán. NISGUA accompanied this historic process, which the CPRs call their “emergence into the light.” Later, NISGUA’s Guatemala Accompaniment Project (GAP) accompanied several CPR communities.
📸 Members of Communities of Population in Resistance (CPRs) trek to a makeshift market to exchange goods. Photo by Jonathan Jonás Moller.