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Mystic spring in the land of tyranny

Guatemala. 
 
It's all about death and life,
Dalia, this flower was found on a hotel garden in Nebaj, Guatemala.
A ragged Guatemalan flag streched over the land grab of Linda Vista, an illigal setlement beside the Incienso bridge, Guatemala city. 
A riot police shield seen from the inside of the settlement of Linda Vista. 
A Quiché mother waltks through a corn field in the Sacapulas Municipality, Guatemala.
Settlers from Linda Vista prepare themselves for a clash with riot police, guatemala city. 
A Quiché woman with her child in the Pie del Aguila village, Guatemala.
Shards of glass used as a subsitute for barbed wire on a house in Nebaj, Quiché. 
An organic coffe farmer, after the expansión of the fungus roya the farmers have seen their crops depleated. 
A flower early in the morning. 
Ex military, the man is now the chief of the village. 
Pie del Aguila village in the Sacapaulas Municipality. 
Puente del Incienso, this bridge is know for being the prefered one for suicides. 
A grandmother in the Ixcan mountains, seen in a reflection. 
Villa Linda settlers worried as their houses start falling into a river, after heavy rain. 
Guatemalan Ortodox Jews in San Juan la Laguna, Atitlán, Guatemala. 
A Ixil woman sleeps while on an audience to have the Rios Montt trial stand it's gound. 
The Pacaya volcanic dome, seen from Plaza Berlin, Guatemala city.
Guatemala's president  Otto Perez center, Minister of Defence right Manuel Lopez Ambrosio and Lopez Bonilla Minister of Governance. 
F.E.P. special police forces at a graduation ceremony. 
A man carries produce while riot police stand guar at Mercado La Terminal, Guatemala City. 
A woman sits in an ambulance during a fight that broke up between prisioners and police, Fraijanes I, Guatemala. 
Cementerio General, Guatemala ciudad. 
 
Stained Glass in the Palacio Nacional de La Cultura, it reads in latin peace. The palace was build by order of Guatemalan dictator Jorge Ubico. 
Rescue units at Mercado la Terminal. 
The Guatemalan gay parade. 
A man in the rubble of a house that fell into a river during heavy rainfall, in Villa Linda, Guatemala. 
A recent captured man, holds a diet coke. 
Mystic spring in the land of tyranny
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Mystic spring in the land of tyranny

Portfolio from my work in Guatemala.

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