Mario Polanco is a
Guatemalan
human rights
Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for certain standards of hu ...
activist. He is a founding member and, currently the Director of, the
Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo (Mutual Support Group, or GAM) in
Guatemala City
Guatemala City ( es, Ciudad de Guatemala), known locally as Guatemala or Guate, is the capital and largest city of Guatemala, and the most populous urban area in Central America. The city is located in the south-central part of the country, ne ...
, one of the country's oldest human rights organizations. He is married to
Member of Congress Nineth Montenegro
Nineth Varenca Montenegro Cottom (born 1958 in San Marcos, Guatemala) is a Guatemalan human rights activist and a victim of state terrorism. She was the first person to face civil resistance on a national level as a result of protesting in the ...
. Polanco has been the victim of numerous
death threat
A death threat is a threat, often made anonymously, by one person or a group of people to kill another person or group of people. These threats are often designed to intimidate victims in order to manipulate their behaviour, in which case a de ...
s and attacks on his life.
Guatemala: Fear for Safety
Amnesty International, 8 April 2003.
References
Living people
Guatemalan human rights activists
Year of birth missing (living people)
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