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...family has farmed the same tiny plot of land in the Guatemalan highlands for generations, but Jacobo Mendez is the first to reap riches from a most unlikely source: "baby" zucchini. Far to the north, novelty-loving Americans are willing to pay seven times the price of the full-grown product for its freshly flowered miniature equivalent. Mendez doesn't care why -- he's just glad they do. "I have my own house now, and we all eat better," says Mendez, 34, a Cakchiquel Indian descended from the Mayans, who ruled the region a thousand years...
Long familiar to French chefs, baby vegetables are a growing business across the Atlantic. Upscale restaurants are increasingly partial to downsize squash, zucchini, carrots, lettuce and green beans. The stateside craze means Guatemalan gold. A year-round growing season, rich volcanic soil and high- altitude geography give the impoverished nation a significant edge in the U.S. winter-vegetable market, as indicated by last week's crowning achievement: a party for Britain's Queen Elizabeth in Houston, where Guatemalan baby squash and pineapples the size of softballs were on the menu. Yet back in Central America, no one would dream...
...great centers of Mayan civilization. Ruins -- still largely unrestored, insufficiently studied and besieged by tomb robbers -- dot the lowland forests: the pyramids of Xunantunich and Altun Ha and the vast complex of Caracol, which in the 6th to 7th centuries was the rival of Tikal, across the Guatemalan border...
Serrano personifies a religious shift that is steadily gaining momentum, not only in Guatemala but also across traditionally Catholic Latin America. Evangelical Protestantism now claims as much as 30% of the Guatemalan population. Throughout the region, Evangelicals, as Protestants of all types are called, have increased from 15 million to at least 40 million since the late 1960s. Catholicism, says the Rev. Paulo Romeiro, Protestant director of an interdenominational research institute in Sao Paulo, is facing "a serious crisis. As the Evangelical movement grows stronger by the day, the Catholic Church is getting weaker and weaker...
...With Mexico now the chief entry point for U.S.-bound cocaine, the entire region is being crisscrossed with routes for ferrying the drug northward. Smuggling is up sharply in Guatemala, whose remote mountains and vast jungles provide concealment for traffickers along the 540-mile border with Mexico. This year Guatemalan authorities have confiscated 2.5 tons of coke, a fivefold increase from two years ago. Police believe Panamanian traffickers are trying to relocate and turn Guatemala into a "golden bridge for their goods...