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mountain peaks sacred and some of her neighbors reputedly believed the foreign-born fe-
male shaman to be the guardian of one of these.
ThemainmarketdayhereisSaturday.Don'tbesurprisedtofindinebriatedmen(mostly)
stumblingthroughthestreetsorpassedoutonthesidewalk,anunfortunatelycommonsight
throughout the highlands. As in the Ixil Triangle, the population here suffered greatly dur-
ingthecivilwar.Thearmymarchedonthetownin1982inthedaysfollowingabriefoccu-
pation by EGP guerrillas, carrying out the torture, disappearance, and murder of suspected
guerrilla sympathizers. Many villagers fled to the hillsides to wait out the troubles or went
north to Mexico.
the church at Todos Santos
Todos Santos certainly remains very poor. Many of its residents have traditionally made
ends meet by traveling to the Pacific lowlands to work in the annual harvests. Many
Todosanteros nowhave family in the United States, a fact that becomes readily apparent as
