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• A version of this post ran on the author's blog, centralamericanpolitics.blogspot.com. The views expressed are the author's own.

The Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA) is providing daily updates on the genocide and crimes against humanity trial against Efrain Rios Montt and Jose Roriguez Sanchez. From day three:

The Open Society Justice Initiative is also providing regular updates here.

The Latin Americanist hasÌýGuatemala: Witnesses Recall Horror and Heartache at Rios Montt Trial.

Phil Neff has a post on the black humor surrounding the trial in Chapín black humor meets the Guatemala genocide trial.

James Rodriguez has photos of the trial at MiMundo.

Victoria Sanford has an opinion piece in Plaza Publica that originally appeared in El Faro on El genocidio no es un enfrentamiento armado. In it, she criticizes President Otto Perez Molina and other who deny that genocide occurred. But while Boz, Victoria, and I believe that genocide did occur in Guatemala, it's more difficult to prove than crimes against humanity. See Boz from a few weeks ago.

It's a legal question that the judges will have to decide.

Honestly, I hope that should the generals be found not guilty of genocide and/or crimes against humanity, people don't run to the hilltops shouting that this is another example of impunity in Guatemala. The lead judge, Jazmin Barrios, appears to be a judge of integrity who is committed to the law. She has already worked on cases in which human rights violators were found guilty and punished. She stuck to the court's timetable to haveÌýthe caseÌýmoved up five months. She and her fellow judges also played hardball with Efrain Rios Montt and his defense counsel as they tried to have her removed from the case.

– Mike Allison is an associate professor in theÌýPolitical Science DepartmentÌýand a member of theÌýLatin American and Women's Studies DepartmentÌýat theÌýUniversity of Scranton in Pennsylvania. ÌýYou can follow his Central American Politics blog here.