[3] In fall 2013, Jorge Vinicio Sosa Orantes, "one of the lieutenants" of the commandos, was found guilty of immigration fraud in a court in California and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

[6] The coup d'état would see a revolving door of military governments, who were backed by the United States, that would undo much of the agricultural reforms achieved from the revolution of 1944.

[6] Under FYDEP, the Guatemalan government increased their presence in the Peten region through the construction of infrastructure and economic development, particularly creating industry through lumber, livestock, and agriculture.

[6] In 1971, Don Federico Aquino Ruano, mayor of the nearby village of Las Cruces, would be given a parcel of land of about 3300 acres by the FYDEP.

[6] Throughout the next decade, tens of families would arrive in Dos Erres to work the nearby land growing various crops along with usual corn and beans, as well as build their lives within the village.

[6] Much of the village consisted of just a schoolhouse, two churches, the well, and various parcels of land that made up the homes of the families of Dos Erres.

[6] The community was small, with many of the families often socializing every Sunday after church and celebrating major festivals or holidays in the village center.

[6] The schoolhouse and soccer field were popular places for the children, and along with these locations included stores owned by the locals which were the sources of a couple of supplies.

[6] Dos Erres was in a remote part away from any major highways, located deep in the jungle between the villages of Las Cruces and La Libertad.

[6] Through the 1970s, members of the Rebel Armed Forces (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes, FAR) found themselves within the Peten, and through this decade began to unarm themselves and move away from a military guerilla to a political organization.

[7] Military leaders from Guatemala received advice and attended the United States’ School of the Americas to make the country's armed forces a stronger combatant against any guerilla insurgencies.

[7] The army, under President Lucas Garcia, was particularly ruthless throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s with strategies that had no regard for civilian lives, and soon sanctions and pressure arose from the United States to put a stop to it.

[7] In 1982, General Efrain Rios Montt conducted a successful coup for the presidency of Guatemala, who at the beginning cooperated with American desires to quell the army and restore some order.

[1] Following the events of the massacre, family members of the victims who lived in the nearby village of Las Cruces began immediately pressing for questions from the local police.

[6] What they found was a mess, as animals ran rampant through the village, clothes scattered everywhere, documents flying in the wind, it was clear that something major had occurred to some of the family members.

[8] With the help of some of the family members of victims and testimonies of those who committed the acts, it was quickly determined that many of the remains laid in the village's main well.

[8] With this information, Farfan and FAMDEGUA presented these findings to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights in 1996, which at that point began a series of judicial proceedings that would ultimately lead to the conviction of many of the parties responsible for the events of the Dos Erres Massacre.

[11] In May 2010, Gilberto Jordan, naturalized American and former member of the Kaibiles special forces, was accused of involvement in the massacre and arrested in Florida by U.S. Immigration and Customs officers.

[12] On 16 September 2010, after his role in the massacre was established in a Miami court, Jordan was convicted for naturalization fraud and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

[5][13] In January 2011, Jorge Vinicio Orantes Sosa, another former Kaibil member suspected to be involved in the massacre, was arrested in Alberta on charges of lying to immigration authorities.

[19] On 2 August 2011, a court found the four soldiers, Manuel Pop, Reyes Collin Gualip, Daniel Martínez Hernández and Lieutenant Carlos Carías guilty of the massacre.