AEU: Association of University Students

CDHG: Guatemalan Human Rights Commission

CACIF: Coordinating Body of Commercial, Industrial and Financial Associations

CEEM: Secondary Students' Coordinating Committee

CEUA: Committee of Anticommunist University Students

CEUR: Center for Urban and Regional Studies

CNT: National Workers' Central Committee

CNUS: Committee of Trade Union Solidarity

CONFREGUA: Confederation of Guatemalan Religious Workers

CSU: University Governing Board

CUC: Peasant Unity Committee

CUNOC: Western University Center (USAC-Quetzaltenango)

CUNOR: Northern University Center (USAC-Cobán)

CUNORI: Eastern University Center (USAC-Chiquimula)

CUNOROC: Northwestern University Center (USAC-Huehuetenango)

CUNSUR: Southern University Center (USAC-Escuintla)

CUNSUROC: Southwest University Center (USAC-Mazatenango)

EGP: Guerrilla Army of the Poor

EPS: Supervised Professional Practice

ESA: Secret Anticommunist Army

FAR: Rebel Armed Forces

FASGUA: Autonomous Federation of Guatemalan Unions

FERG: Robin García Revolutionary Student Front

FESC: Social Christian Student Front

FUD: Democratic University Front

FUEGO: Guatemalan United Organized Student Front

FUR: United Front of the Revolution

GAM: Mutual Aid Group for the Appearance Alive of our Relatives

JPT: Patriotic Workers' Youth (youth wing of the PGT)

MINUGUA: United Nations Verification Mission to Guatemala

MLN: Movement for National Liberation

MONAP: National Slum-Dwellers' Movement

MR-13: November 13 Revolutionary Movement

NOA: New Anticommunist Army

ORPA: Organization of the People in Arms

PAC: Civilian Self-Defense Patrols

PGT: Guatemalan Workers' Party

PID: Institutional Democratic Party

PODER: Organized Participation of Revolutionary Students

STUSC: University of San Carlos Workers' Union

UASP: Unity of Popular and Syndicalist Action

UNSITRAGUA: Unity of Guatemalan Unions and Workers

URNG: Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity

USAC: University of San Carlos