'' 500 Years : Life in Resistance '' is a 2017 American documentary film directed by Pamela Yates about the trial of Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt for genocide against the country 's indigenous Maya population in the 1980s and the popular uprising that followed the trial , which led to the toppling of President Otto Perez Molina
genocide against the country 's indigenous Maya
Guatemalan genocide
500 Years