A MOMENT IN HISTORY
Burning of the Spanish Embassy
1980 CE · Guatemala, North America · War
The Burning of the Spanish Embassy refers to an event beginning with the occupation of the Spanish Embassy in Guatemala City, Guatemala, on January 31, 1980, by indigenous peasants of the Committee for Peasant Unity and their allies, which was responded to by a subsequent raid by Guatemalan police that resulted in a fire which destroyed the embassy and left 37 people dead.
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