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Article: Central American nations struggle over colonial legacy: The deaths of three Guatemalan peasants in a border dispute with Belize raises a persistent problem.(World)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- December 27, 2001
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Byline: Catherine Elton Special to The Christian Science Monitor
GUATEMALA CITY -- It is an invisible line between Belize and Guatemala that the latter does not even recognize. But a violent dispute that left three people dead has cast new light on a century-old conflict over where, exactly, the border is between the countries.
Late last month, Belizean soldiers shot and killed a Guatemalan peasant and his two sons after they refused to relocate to land clearly within Guatemala's border. While the soldiers are under investigation, and leaders from the two countries are meeting, this is just one of many ongoing disputes over rivers, sea, land, and ...