The highland village of Santiago Atitlan continues to hold monthly masses to commemorate the 14 citizens killed and 24 injured when soldiers fired into a crowd that had gathered to protest an earlier shooting of a resident by drunken soldiers. A 30-year conflict between the army and leftist guerillas has left the indigenous population in Guatemala hopelessly pinned between both sides.
©19931 Vince Heptig
Vince Heptig, a freelance photographer in Texas, has lived in Guatemala for the past four years.