Word: guatemalans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Guatemalan exiles stir tension
...influx began in 1980, when the Guatemalan government of President Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia intensified its campaign to wipe out leftist guerrillas based in the mountains of Huehuetenango and Quiche. In the process, the army indiscriminately killed thousands of Chuj, Kanjobal and Mam Indians, whom they suspected of supporting the insurgents. Many of those who survived sought sanctuary across the border in Mexico. Some 46,000 of them are now in government-created refugee camps. But, according to Roman Catholic Church authorities, an additional 50,000 Guatemalans are roaming the south Mexican countryside in search of work or hiding...
...Guatemalan government considers the refugee camps, which are several miles from the border, to be staging areas for the guerrillas, a charge that Mexico indignantly denies. Dozens of times over the past four years Guatemalan troops have crossed the border to kill and kidnap refugees. The most recent attack occurred last month, when some 200 Guatemalan soldiers attacked a camp at El Chupadero, four miles north of the border. According to the examining doctor, four men, a pregnant woman and a six-year-old child were tortured and killed...
...painted!" Hall cried. His coworkers, members of a U.S.-Guatemalan team that was hoping to unearth an undisturbed Mayan crypt, crowded to the rim of the pit. "We all wept and embraced," recalls Archaeologist George Stuart. "There was such a sense of incredible relief. It had been a gamble, and we'd been building up to that moment...
...Adams, a Mayan archaeologist now at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Lacking funds, Adams could not explore the region until this year. In the meantime bands of looters had dug into the tombs of the 500-acre area, carrying off jewelry, pottery and carvings. Once at the Guatemalan site, Adams turned his attention to a spot less than a mile from a 130-ft.-high pyramid that was flanked by a cluster of temples. Workers digging an exploratory trench discovered that flakes of flint had been scattered through a layer of masonry, a funerary custom of the Maya...