Well, this past weekend the Guatemalan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church, Óscar Julio Vian Morales, publicly accused his Government of attempting to use the territorial dispute with Belize as a distraction from the real problems facing Guatemala.

Archbishop Oscar Vian told the press that the territorial dispute should have been solved some 40 years ago. He added a lasting solution has never been really sought, and the territorial dispute continues to surface exactly when Guatemalan is experiencing other huge problems.

As we told you, protests continued in Guatemala on last week Wednesday when thousands of indigenous people blocked roads all across the country in protest.

And we also saw that on Thursday, there was another article in the Prensa Libre, this one, an opinion piece, written by the Executive Director of the Balam Association. In his Thursday piece, he wrote, quote, "Recent developments in the adjacency zone with Belize are part of an inventory of abuses, injustices, arrest and crimes in a territory full of misery, exclusion and historic abandonment by the State of Guatemala. Spurious diplomacy, false patriotism and political opportunists, masked as heroes should not have a place in these communities, who struggle daily against poverty, and expect the productive and social assistance of the Government of Guatemala, which has never come to that territory."