Smugglers, poachers thrive in Guatemala’s Peten From: latimes.com
Tagged: GuatemalaPosted on: July 10th, 2008
Here in the Wild West of the Central American isthmus, tough hombres like “the Bald Guys” make mahogany trees disappear in the middle of the night. Here, “cattle ranch” cowboys wrangle cocaine that falls from the sky.
This is the Peten, for centuries a thinly populated frontier where jaguars ruled an unspoiled natural kingdom and the rainbow-colored scarlet macaw flew unmolested over towering Maya temples.”*
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