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30 years after massacre, family comes together again

Guatemala slaughter seemed to take everything, until DNA testing

By David Abel

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 30, 2012

NEWARK, New Jersey - The man with piercing green eyes began to shake as he stared past the checkpoint, down a crowded corridor into an unfamiliar airport terminal as his young children began to count the long seconds. It would be the first time Oscar Alfredo Ramírez Castañeda, now 32 and living in Framingham, would meet his father since a squad of government soldiers slaughtered his mother and eight brothers and sisters 30 years ago in their small village during the height of the civil war in Guatemala.

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