Discovering Dominga: A Survivor's Story

Discovering Dominga: A Survivor's Story (2003)

June 8th, 20031h 0min

Documentary, History, War, TV Movie
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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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