Chronology

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Dates	Regina Jóse Galindo's Performances	Politics	Human Rights Issues	Photos
1970	1974 -Regina Jóse Galindo is born in Guatemala City, Guatemala	1970- Carlos Arena Osorio Elected President served until 1974	HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATED elimination of Left-wingers result 50,000 Deaths
1975		1978-1982 Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcis served as President
1980	1984- Release of Rigoberta Manchu's book.	1980's - Rigoberta Manchu, campaigner for Mayan Rights, spends in exile 1982 - Efrain Rios Montt gains power 1983 - Montt ousted in coup led by General Mejia Victores
1985	Peace Burning	1985 - Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo elected president 1985 - Guatemalan Christian Democratic Party wins legislative elections under a new constitution. 1989 - Attempt to overthrow Cerezo fails.	Earthquake disaster 27,000 people are killed and a million rendered homeless
1990	Peace Burning	1991 - Jorge Serrano Elias elected president. 1992 - Rigoberta Manchu awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1993 - Serrano forced to resign, Ramiro de Leon Carpio elected president	1980- Spanish Embassy attacked among the 37 dead were 5 Guatemalan Generals, 2 civilians of war crimes and the father of Rigoberta Manchu 1981 - 15 cooperative leaders in Cuarto Pueblo Killed. 1981 - approximately 11,000 people killed by death squads and soldiers in response to anti-government guerrilla activity
1995	1996 - END OF CIVIL WAR 1998- Galindo the Unique Poetry prize by the foundation Myrna Mack. 1999, she won the Project Young Creative BANCAFE. 1999- Performances Lo voy a gritar al viento Central Histórico, Guatemala El dolor en un pañuelo Lo Lengua, Guatemala	1995 - Rebels declare a ceasefire 1996 - Alvaro Arzu elected president, signs peace agreement with rebels, ending 36 years of civil war. 1998 - Bishop Juan Gerardi, a human rights campaigner, murdered	Civil war toll since 1980 reaches 100,000 dead and 40,000 missing
2000	2000 - Performances No perdemos nada con nacer Guatemala Basurero del Zócalo Todos estamos muriendo San José, Costa Rica Valium 10 Museo Ixchel, Guatemala 2001 - Performances Piel Bienal de Venecia Angelina Guatemala 2002 - Performances Lucha Guatemala Haster ver Tercera Bienal Lima, Perú 2003 - Performances Proxémica Costa Rica ¿Quién puede borrar las huellas? Guatemala 2004 - Performances Himenoplastia Guatemala El peso de la sangre Guatemala	2000 - Alfonso Portillo sworn in as President 2001 - Border talks 2003 - Conservative businessman Oscar Berger - a former mayor of Guatemala City wins Presidental Election in second round. 2004 - Former Military leader Montt placed under house arrest. 2004 - UN mission, set up to monitor post-civil war peace process, winds up. But UN says Guatemala still suffers from crime, social justice, human rights violations.	Peace talks between the government and rebels of the Guatemalan Revolutionary National Unit begin.
2005	2005 - Performances Vértigo Tercera Bienal de Tirana, Albania Recorte por la Línea Caracas, Venezuela Perra Milano, Italia Golpes Bienal de Venecia Toque de queda Paris, France 2006 - Performances Camisa de Fuerza Bélgica Plomo Miami Yesoterpia Santa Domingo, República Dominicana Peso Santa Domingo, República Dominicana Tanatosterapia Centro de Cultura Hispánica, Guatemala Limpieza Social Trento, Italia Isla Santa Domingo, República Dominicana	2005 - Guatemala's leading anti-drug investigator is arrested in the US on charges of drug trafficking. 2005 - Government ratifies Central American free trade deal with US amid street protest in capitol.	UN and US criticize Guatemala for widespread human rights abuses UN security forces 93% behind all human rights atrocities during Civil War 200,000 lives claimed senior officials had overseen 636 massacres in Maya village	Jessica Legunas, In Memoriam 567 shells for the number of women killed in 2006 in Guatemala.

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