There was a fancy wedding in town, and the bride and groom were at the park taking photos in a horse-drawn carriage -- at first I thought perhaps they were the ones with back up. Then Johnny heard someone exclaim, "Mama, el presidente!"
Sure enough, here came the president of Guatemala, Otto Pérez Molina, for a Saturday stroll through Antigua's central park. He seemed to get a warm reception -- well, at least everyone wanted to give him a hug and take a picture with him.
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Also in politics, an historic trial is currently underway: court proceedings against Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt, who led the country in the early 1980s, on charges of genocide.
Read more here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/opinion/on-the-brink-of-justice-in-guatemala.html
Also on the reading list is I, Rigoberta Menchu, the story of a Mayan woman in Guatemala who is a Nobel Peace Prize winner and activist: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1992/tum-bio.html.
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