Article: Border brawl.(Belize and Guatemala)

CONTESTED BORDERS TEND TO BE PRETty nasty up close--barbed wire, mine fields, guys wandering around with assault rifles and aggressive German shepherds. The Koreas add giant electrified fences and forward-deployed armor; the Turkish Army likes to surround the overnight Sofia-Istanbul passenger train with intimidating soldiers, just to let you know they're there. In Albania the entire country looks like a border zone, with a million dome-shaped bunkers guarding every road, field, and street corner--an expansive memorial to the late Enver Hoxha's fear of just about everyone.

But here I was at the main border crossing between Belize and Guatemala, ground zero for ...

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