I've been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.
In the sublime days before 11 September 2001, when the powerful were routinely attacking and terrorising the weak, and those dying were black or brown-skinned non-people living in faraway places such as Zaire and Guatemala, there was no terrorism. When the weak attacked the powerful, spectacularly on 911, there was terrorism.
Because CoEd's doing incredible work in Guatemala so how can I not #tieoneon?
You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.
The Indians are a marginal people in Guatemala just like I am a marginal person in the first world.
I wasnt privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City, because it was very relevant to me, and of course I exchanged what I had with the chief of station in Guatemala City.
Haiti, which has been the main target of US intervention throughout the 20th century, is the poorest. And Guatemala, which is maybe the third major target of US intervention, probably ranks third poorest.
You show me a tropical fruit and I'll show you a cocksucker from Guatemala.
Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
What really terrifies Americans is the prospect that the Indian is very much alive, that the Indian is having nine babies in Guatemala, and that those nine babies are headed this way. This is one reason why Americans hold on so dearly to the myth of the dead Indian.
If you do something and it proves to be a success, then people go 'get him to do that type of thing again, but only slightly different'. Either you do that or you go 'No! I want to play a leprous, lesbian dwarf from Guatemala!' But those parts just aren't coming to me.
The US has attacked countries like Grenada, Panama, Libya. . . the list of victims of US terrorism is almost infinite. And the US government's participation in torture, whether in El Salvador, Guatemala, Chile. . . is well-documented and widely known.
I wasn't the only orphan in Guatemala. There are many others, and it's not my grief alone, it's the grief of a whole people.
In Guatemala, the gap between rich and poor must be eliminated, or we will continue to be the example of conflict in America.
