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The sad part? This isn't even close to being the worst thing the U.S. government has been involved with in Guatemala -- or that any number of other governments have been involved with there over the years, for that matter, including their own government at various points in the last couple hundred years.
It's such a beautiful place, too (or it was when I was there in the 80s, at least)... it makes the ugliness perpetrated there all the more horrific, somehow.
On a more pleasant note, if you ever visit Guatemala, do yourself a favor: visit Tikal National Park, find Temple IV, climb to the top of it, and survey the horizon. That is a view you will never forget.
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Q. Boyer
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