"Beyond the Green Leaves" is a novel that gathers anecdotes and episodes from the events that marked the lives of those who participated in the civil war that Guatemala suffered for 36 years, and that claimed the lives of more than 250,000 people and caused the displacement of almost a million people to various countries and to the mountains and jungles of the country."Beyond the green leaves" transports the reader to a stage where the wild world of the Petén rainforests mixes with an atmosphere of war and strong tensions, that envelop the lives of men and women of all ages, as they walk towards a destiny that seems distant and invaded by uncertainty and death, but also by the hope of achieving a better future.The purpose of this work is to offer the entire world unpublished stories that were never known, and that rescue the most human part of those who lived them and wrote them with their walk, between 1981 and 1985, in the Petén jungles.In the novel, although confrontations between the guerrillas and the Guatemalan army are related, the story focuses on the everyday, on the way of feeling and living the war. In the same way, events that have moved the entire world are addressed, such as the massacre of the Las dos Erres village, in the department of Petén, as well as the effects of the policies and strategies that led to the military regimes in the decade in the 1980s, to create model villages, civil self-defense patrols, and to embark on a barbaric war that sowed death and impunity throughout the country.