Discovering Dominga: A Survivor's Story (2003)
• June 8th, 2003 • 1h 0min
Documentary, History, War, TV Movie
Overview
Denese Joy Becker, a manicurist living in Iowa, discovers she is indeed Dominga Sic Ruiz, a survivor from a 1982 Guatemalan massacre, when more than 200 people were killed in the small village of Rio Negro, after opposing the construction of a dam, sponsored by World Bank. She then tries to unveil the truth.
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