CPRs Communities of Civilian Population in Resistance. A Guatemalan woman talks about the killing of her grandparents and her brother in 1982 and now the forced disappearance of her husband by 20 military men, showing the horrors of institutionalized violence in Guatemala. The film then traces the problems in Guatemala back to the land problem. They were forced of their land by an oligarchy that created vast coffee, sugar, cotton, and banana plantations. The workers apply fertilizers with bleeding hands, since no protection is provided, for only for 60 cent per day.
Children starve, they have no health care, no money - no medicine.