Guatemala City
Gateway to a beautiful country symbolised by an exotic bird of freedom, but only just now becoming democratic
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10 min readMar 22, 2024
THIS March, after New York, I flew south to Guatemala, a country immediately to the south of Mexico that I’d often heard about in the direst of terms, with its CIA-backed coup in 1954 against a moderate reformer and thirty years of genocidal civil war — mostly directed against the indigenous Maya — that only ended in the mid-1990s. Frankly, I was scared to go there.
