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Sedi Elrington Under Scrutiny for Belize-Guatemala Remark
posted (December 18, 2009)

Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington met with his Guatemalan counterpart Haroldo Rodas at the OAS in Washington on Tuesday – and Elrington is under scrutiny tonight after being quoted at those meetings as saying, “We (Belizeans and Guatemalans) are not different from each other; the fact of this artificial border does not make us different.”

An “artificial border”!? It is an expression that has rightly rankled Belizean nationalists – who were already upset when the western border was turned into an adjacency zone. And now it’s “artificial”!? Indeed, it has raised some ire, but from what we’ve seen on the ground it’s an accurate statement – not in a desirable way, perhaps, but accurate nonetheless because for the Guatemalans who live in the adjacency zone our border is anything but real – and our army’s inability to properly police it properly makes it more so.

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