Guatemalan Civil War

He was a career army officer who became the leader of the country when a group of military officers led a coup in 1982 against the then president, Romeo Lucas García, and then they installed Ríos Montt as a military dictator.

This was happening kind of smack in the middle of the Guatemalan Civil War, which lasted from 1960 to '96, as we said.

It was a war fought between the government and leftist revolutionaries, primarily over land distribution because wealthy white European descended Guatemalans, as well as companies like the, uh, United Fruit Company, like you mentioned, Vanessa, stole land from Indigenous people.

Excellent book about it, by the way, called Bitter Fruit.

There's a variety of amaranth that survived two different major conflicts.

So the most recent being the Guatemalan Civil War.

And that was basically a time when indigenous communities were driven from their lands.

So obviously they had to bring anything with them that has still survived today.