Quote by Paul Theroux

I could become very rich in Guatemala but by the low method of ratifying my title, opening a clinic, and specialising in allergies. To…

— Che Guevara

The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want…

— Tracy Kidder

“If kind words were said without meaning, simply to make us pleased with the speaker, the result was surely accomplished, and we felt more…

— Helen Josephine Sanborn

The Indians are a marginal people in Guatemala just like I am a marginal person in the first world.

— Luis Gonzalez

I never wanted to get into high end in Colombia - the percentage of people who can afford it is very small, and they…

— Esteban Cortazar

The problem in Guatemala is that there is no solution to the issue of human rights. The problem is militarization, it is the injust…

— Rigoberta Menchu

“The damage United Fruit had done to Latin America was beyond imaginable and, even as the Cavendish shift occurred, beyond healing. The dictatorial governments…

— Dan Koeppel

“The view of Central America as a region to be kept "safe" for American corporations was naturally not shared by all the people who…

— Stephen Schlesinger

The inaction of the international community towards Guatemala is injustifiable. The community should play an active role with concrete measures and sanctions imposed, as…

— Rigoberta Menchu

The fashion world is very active and generous, despite the fact that it is not very well respected - or at least not as…

— Miuccia Prada

In Guatemala, the gap between rich and poor must be eliminated, or we will continue to be the example of conflict in America.

— Rigoberta Menchu

Land ownership in Guatemala is more unequal than anywhere else in Latin America. Roughly 90 percent of Guatemalan farms are too small to support…

— Stephen Kinzer