Sergio Palencia Frener earned his B.A. in Anthropology and Sociology from Del Valle University in Guatemala. He then earned his M.A. in Sociology and Critical Theory by the “Alfonso Vélez Pliego” Institute at Puebla University, Mexico. He studies the historical relationships between Indigenous Communities and the Guerrilla Army of the Poor, between 1972 and 1982 in Highland Guatemala. He has published the following books: Fernando Hoyos and Chepito Ixil, Encounter and Revolutionary Communion (FGT, 2013), Racism, Capital and State in Guatemala (URL, 2013), Mesoamerica, concept and struggle: historical approach, 1920-2010 (URL, 2014). He has also published several essays in journals in Argentina, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, France. He is the founder and coordinator of the Mesoamerican Studies Congress (2014, 2016) which strives to stimulate War and Memory studies in this region. In 2014m he presented at two conferences - the Mora Institute and UNAM: “Indigenous Rebellion in the Highlands, 1980-1982” and “Guerrilla patterns in Huehuetenango and Quiché, 1979-1980.”