[Aztlan] BBC Update - Painful legacy of Guatemala storm

[Elaine Day Schele]

By Laura Smith-Spark 
BBC News 
A year ago to the day, heavy rains caused by Tropical Storm Stan brought mudslides crashing down on dozens of Guatemalan villages. 

Some 670 people died and hundreds more remain unaccounted for, believed buried under the torrents of mud that engulfed homes, roads and bridges. 

Nor has life for survivors in the worst-affected highland areas - mostly home to the indigenous Mayan Tzujuhil people - been easy. 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5407730.stm