In 1982, over 440 men, women and children from Rio Negro were killed, in large part to make way for the Chixoy Hydroelectric Dam, a project of the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)…From 1975-1985, the World Bank and the IADB loaned US $292m to successive Western-backed military regimes in Guatemala to finance the Chixoy Dam…Despite credible evidence of egregious human rights abuses, the banks continued their unconditional support for the project…At best, the banks were willfully and intentionally blind to state repression before, during and after the project; at worst, they were complicit in these atrocities…The 30-year anniversary of the Rio Negro massacre approaches, yet there has been no justice for the victims and survivors of these atrocities…