Fidel
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posted 25 October 2005 03:45 AM
Under Mud and Despair, Guatemala Looks Abroad for HelpBy Jacob Wheeler
October 16, 2005
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The villagers of Santiago de Atitlán, on the banks of what British author Aldous Huxley called “the most beautiful lake in the world,” have yet another reason to mourn.Landslides the week before last caused by the rain from Hurricane Stan in the Caribbean wiped out a town next to Santiago called Panabáj, burying more than 500 people under mud and rock that fell from thousands of feet above them. By last weekend, recovery efforts were abandoned, and desperate locals who had been digging with shovels, and tools as simple as brooms and tree branches, were asked to stop. “Panabáj no longer exists,” Mayor Diego Esquina of Santiago admitted to reporters, and the town was declared a mass grave. ... As if that’s not enough, two months from now these same unfortunate souls will remember the 15th anniversary of the day the Guatemalan military massacred 13 of their fellow townspeople.
world press Those poor people. They need socialism, not free markets in deaths squads and poverty.
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