Mobalización!

This was an indiginous right´s Demonstration on the Highway near Panajachel. I couldnt get much info out of the cop (bottom left) that I talked to but it seemed more like a party than anything else. I suppose they figured I didn´t have anything to do with thier whatever disenfranchisment they were protesting because they let me by.

Panajachel Blues? (Atitlán)

July 15th 2009
After a rather uneventful traverse of Guatemala City I found my way to the Interamericana highway and made my way higher and higher into the highland volcano country. The ride was spectacular and punctuated only by a couple stops to warm my hands and snap photos and one stop in a small town where the road had been closed by a indigenous rights demonstration. I pulled to the front of the line of ... read more

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The Maya civilization flourished in Guatemala and surrounding regions during the first millennium A.D. After almost three centuries as a Spanish colony, Guatemala won its independence in 1821. During the second half of the 20th century, it experience... ... read more

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