Word: guatemalan
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...reasons for the hysteria are uncertain. Diplomats and fearful foreign residents believe the rumors are being deliberately spread to incite 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...
...National Liberation, composed largely of Indian descendants of the Maya, declared war on the government of President Carlos Salinas. Mexican armed forces used tanks, planes, rockets and helicopter gunships to drive the guerrillas -- estimated to number as many as 1,500 -- into heavily forested mountain areas near the Guatemalan border...
...crowd at the base of the enormous bloodred pyramid has been standing for hours in the dripping heat of the Guatemalan jungle. No one moves; every eye stays fixed on the building's summit, where the king, his head adorned with feathers, his scepter a two-headed crocodile, is about to emerge from a sacred chamber with instructions from his long-dead ancestors. The crowd sees nothing of his movements, but it knows the ritual: lifted into the next world by hallucinogenic drugs, the king will take an obsidian blade or the spine of a stingray, pierce his own penis...
...Guatemalan President's power grab ends in exile
After the test, they tell a story aloud, pretending to be Guatemalan Indians from Rigober la Mencho's autobiography. They each contribute one sentence at a time, following each other's lead...