Just a few months ago they were telling you how wonderful it is and that we should all pack our bags for Guatemala. They were telling you that it is so safe that America's old and frail should just pick up shop and move their entire lives and money to sunny La Antigua.
BUT NOW!!!
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Suddenly Guatemala has turned into a virtual holocaust of some sort.
The fact that so many of these people are coming from Guatemala may be significant. The unit of currency in Guatemala is the Quetzal and the Quetzal bird is the national bird of Guatemala. The Quetzal bird is a prominent feature of the Denver Murals:
In the images above note first the children. The second image shows the Quetzal bird in a glass museum case with the caption "Extinct ?" The final image shows what appears to be the rebirth of the Quetzal.
The Quetzal bird is named after the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl whose name means feathered serpent.
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I found this 867 encyclopedia entry to be interesting:
Huastecas, or Guastecas, the name of an interesting aboriginal family which, at the time of discovery, occupied the country around the mouth of the Panuco river in Mexico. They spoke a dialect of the same language with the people of Yucatan, Chiapas and Guatemala generally, of which they seem to have been an offshoot colony. According to tradition, they reached the mouth of the Panuco by sea from the eastward, and the have not been wanting fanciful writers who have sought to identify them with the Phoenicians or Carthaginians. They were dressed, says Torquemada, in flowing robes, like the Turks, which exposed the throat, and had short and broad sleeves. They were industrious and peaceable, and when the penetrated into the country, they did so without collision with the people whom they found in occupation. they finally reached Tulha, and afterward Cholula, where they erected a great temple, the remains of which are visible to this day in the form of the Great Pyramid of Cholula. At their head was a personage, named Quetzalcoatl, who, after a life of beneficence, disappeared in the direction of Guatemala, where he went, as he said, to visit the seats of his ancestors. Both Quetzalcoatl and his followers were great artificers, skilled in cutting precious stones and working gold and silver, and were called Tultecatl, a name which came to signify architects or skillful men, and in our days has been corrupted into Toltec. source: Appleton, The new American cyclopaedia: a popular dictionary of general knowledge, Volume 9 (p. 314) 1867The people of Quetzalcoatl were the equivalent of Master Masons.