- 440 villages destroyed
- 1,000,000 displaced persons
- 200,000 refugees in other countries
- 100,000 political murders since 1954
That was the year, you may recall, when the US played a major role in ending 10 years of democracy.
These facts relate to the civil war which was still lingering in 1985. There may well have been more since then, but you get the point.
(Editor's note-- These, and the rest of today´s tidbits are courtesy of Ronald Wright's 1985 book, Time Among the Maya)
