Word: patz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...northeast, above the so-called Motagua Fault (see box). Even as dazed survivors stumbled out of the wreckage of 40 towns and villages, massive aid appeared. The first relief came from Guatemalans whose towns had been spared and who reached out to help. In the highlands village of Patzún, which had been almost totally leveled, a truck bearing tortillas and beans appeared; it had been sent from the town of Santiago Atitlán, 70 miles away. The trip had taken seven hours as the travelers picked their way carefully around landslides. But Mayor Pedro Sosof Mesias...