22 Oct
2001
22 Oct
'01
11:43 a.m.
This is not news. The DOS advisories for Guatemala have said essentially one version or another of "Americans are in danger of being targeted for violent attack in Guatemala" for literally years. US travelers and residents are considered soft mugging targets; there's longstanding political hostility; and there's been intense hostility in more recent years against Americans whom many Guatemalans believe are exporting Guatemalan children and in some cases, children's internal organs, in organized orphan-trafficking to foreign countries. Not a new warning by any means. XJ