A Guatemalan Bishop And His Indigenous Flock Try To Hold Back A Canadian Gold Mine

Published June 8, 2005

Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini lives in the epicentre of a migratory bridge between poverty-stricken Central America and the prosperous North. His diocese of San Marcos, Guatemala, rests on the southern edge of the Mexican border. Unceasingly, tens of thousands of mi- grants, Guate- malans and Hondurans make their way across the border to El Norte, with the entice- ment of jobs beckoning from places like Delaware,...