Benedicto Lucas García, a parachutist trained by France and the United States, was an iconic leader of the Guatemalan counterinsurgency. Decades after the horror, as some of the remaining Maya Ixil victims made the trek from the mountains of Quiché to Guatemala City to demand accountability for when Benedicto’s troops razed their villages, they found a justice system in ruins. The old retired general was about to launch his last counteroffensive in a trial collapsing from within.