"The documents, which numbered in the tens of millions, were revealed to be the historic archive of Guatemala's National Police. The National Police were disbanded after country's 1996 Peace Accords and were replaced by the National Civil Police."

"In early 2007, funds donated by a German organization expanded the 141-person archive staff to 206 workers. The scanning team now works sixteen hours a day in two eight-hour shifts from 7:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. five days a week. The formerly crumbling archive building has been transformed into a hive of activity where workers scan half a million documents each month. By April 2007, Villagrán's team had scanned more than 2.5 million archived documents and 2,000 books. The warren of once dark and damp rooms is now a series of brightly lit, immaculate storerooms of crated and shelved records."