Lord Of The Finca
“Hey, no bad language, man!” he said. And then he took my queen, before going on to reclaim the game. “You ate mine, now I eat yours! Tha’s the way it goes, man. The big fish eat the little fish.”
Eliezar knows what he is talking about. Despite an end, in 1996, to forty years of US backed military dictatorships, the subsequent genocide, brutal guerrilla fighting and civil war, Guatemala today is still marred by inescapable social inequality and persistent human rights violations.
“I met the President before he came to power,” explains Eliezar, “He was nobody with no money. Just a little man. Now he has bought a house in Miami for 20 million dollars. How did he get the money? He stole it! This place is all messed up. But, it's not America, and I don't pay taxes!”
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