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...word-of-mouth allegations spread rapidly throughout Guatemala: gringos are snatching babies and ripping out their vital organs for sale abroad. Eight babies, the whispers assured, were found with their stomachs slashed open. One had a $100 bill stuck in its abdomen, plus a note that said in English, "Thanks for your cooperation...
...violence and derail the civilian government's fast-moving peace negotiations with leftist guerrillas of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity, who have fought a 33-year civil war. In recent years hundreds of human-rights observers and peace supporters -- the majority from the U.S. and Europe -- have flocked to Guatemala to work with and help protect local activists. Some conservatives and editorialists have called for these foreigners to be thrown out of the country...
...jewelrymaker from Taos, New Mexico. For two weeks prior to her arrival, worried mothers had been passing on the story that someone had seen the butchered cadavers of eight children. For undisclosed reasons Larson was detained by police on March 7 in Santa Lucia Cotzumalguapa, 55 miles south of Guatemala City. An angry crowd of several hundred people soon gathered outside the jail, shouting, "Hang the gringa!" forcing police to evacuate Larson to another jail. The enraged rioters burned down the police station, set fire to vehicles and fought police until tanks rolled in to restore order. Larson was kept...
...wake of the attacks, the U.S. State Department issued a traveler's advisory warning American citizens to stay away from Guatemala, and the U.S. Peace Corps has ordered its more than 200 workers in the country back to the capital. Even there, the assassination April 1 of the president of the Constitutional Court and the sniper bullet that wounded a Congressman five days later have added to the instability. "Whoever is behind all this wants to provoke a state of emergency," says government investigator Claudio Porres. "They want us to return to a dark past when everything was resolved through...
...destabilizing consequences. Adults frequently misdirect their anger toward spouses and children. In one pitiful case, a young mother started abusing her four-year-old daughter, swatting the clutching child with shrieks of "Get away from me!" The woman had lost two other children in a quake in her native Guatemala...