Top 11 Guatemala Quotes

I wasnt privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City, because it was very relevant to me, and of course I exchanged what I had

I wasnt privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City, because it was very relevant to me, and of course I exchanged what I had with the chief of station in Guatemala City.

E. Howard Hunt

Cities, Guatemala, Traffic

The problem in Guatemala is that there is no solution to the issue of human rights. The problem is militarization, it is the injust distribution of wealth. It is intolerance of the indigenous, it is discrimination and marginalization.

Rigoberta Menchu

Issues, Rights, Guatemala

Source: www.indians.org

I wasn't the only orphan in Guatemala. There are many others, and it's not my grief alone, it's the grief of a whole people.

Rigoberta Menchu

Grief, People, Guatemala

Rigoberta Menchú (2009). “I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (Second Edition)”, p.278, Verso Books

I’ve been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.

Bjork

House, Guatemala, Sticks

Interview with Mathias Augustyniak, Michael Amzalag, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 21, 2009.

You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.

Werner Herzog

School, Guatemala, Canada

Haiti, which has been the main target of US intervention throughout the 20th century, is the poorest. And Guatemala, which is maybe the third major target of US intervention, probably ranks third poorest.

Noam Chomsky

Target, Haiti, Guatemala

Source: www.madre.org

The US has attacked countries like Grenada, Panama, Libya... the list of victims of US terrorism is almost infinite. And the US government's participation in torture, whether in El Salvador, Guatemala, Chile... is well-documented and widely known.

Assata Shakur

Country, Government, Guatemala