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Women draw water from a well. The brightly painted pots are part of the living indigenous culture in Guatemala, where almost 50 percent of the people are of Mayan descent. (Corbis/Jack Fields)
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For Immigrants, A Costly Final Trip: Burial at Home Impoverishes Families (Post, Oct. 9, 2004)

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Hospice Gives Hope To AIDS Orphans: Guatemala Has Soaring Infection Rate (Post, Nov. 16, 2003)

No Comeback for Guatemalan: Ex-Military Ruler Rios Montt Fails to Qualify for Runoff (Post, Nov. 11, 2003)

Ex-Dictator Trails Rivals in Guatemalan Election (Post, Nov. 10, 2003)

Advocate's Mission: A Freer Press in the Americas (Post, Nov. 7, 2003)

Social Breakdown Turns Deadly in Guatemala: Drugs, Broken Justice System and Resurgent Militarism Are Blamed for Growing Lawlessness (Post, Oct. 26, 2003)

Guatemalan Nobelist Threatened (Post, Oct. 11, 2003)

Too Late to Pursue Enron Case, Justice Says (Post, July 30, 2003)

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