During Guatemala’s internal armed conflict (1960–1996), most local leaders in San Miguel Ixtahuacán, San Marcos, were “disappeared.” When, between 1995 and 1998, the church-led Recovery of Historical Memory Project (REHMI) was collecting testimonies from victims of the armed conflict, no one agreed to speak up. It is only since 2014, in the midst of growing local opposition to large-scale mining, that relatives of the “disappeared” have begun to narrate their experiences as victims of violence. In this chapter, I will examine how the recent “recovery” of historical memories of the brutal repression of local activism did not defeat but instead revitalized radical hope for a “just Guatemala” and in the process produced new conceptualizations of victimization and perpetration. How has public truth-telling contributed to this peculiar form of engagement? Despite a brutally crushed revolution, a failed democratic transition, and growing state-level corruption, anti-mining activists in San Miguel maintain faith in regaining the control of their lands and lives through their involvement in testimonial practices, formal politics, and legal action.