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Arenal Football Field Causes Friction
posted (February 13, 2013)
The village of Arenal on the Belize Guatemala border is already famous for its football field: half of it is in Belize, the other half in Guatemala. But it's getting another football field - and according to reports that has amounted to a major problem for one Belizean land-owner.

She claims her property is being run over to make room for the field - specifically the south goalpost which falls inside her lot. Today in the village heavy machinery rented by the village council knocked down her plants, and reports say a small thatch house she had was burnt down. We could not reach the Chairman for comment today...

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