NEBAJ, Guatemala — Gabriel de Paz still dreams that he's running from the dictator's soldiers.
When the military invaded his Guatemalan mountain town in the early 1980s, De Paz and his Maya family abandoned their animals and their straw-roofed home and fled into the woods. They hid as Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt's security forces burned villages and massacred Indigenous civilians they suspected of collaborating with leftist guerrillas.
To De Paz, the general is why his family spent years in hiding, why his grandmother starved to death, why he still has nightmares.
