Guatemalans plan defiant return One who fled with them and went
on to win the Nobel Peace Prize last year, Rigoberta Menchu,
will be at the Mexican- Guatemalan border to accompany them. A
Mayan Indian like most of the refugees, the Nobel laureate hopes
her presence will discourage any Guatemalan army action against
those returning and ensure them of the worldwide publicity the
Guatemalan government had sought to avoid. Almost 4,000 of the
45,000 Guatemalan refugees in southern Mexico plan to defy their
government by cruising down the main Pan-American highway that
runs all the way from the United States through Mexico and
Central America to Panama. They will be in 100 buses with 240
lorries to carry the cattle and other livestock that helped feed
them in the camps. The rest plan to follow on later dates. Their
return was agreed with the Guatemalan government last October
but the latter insisted they come back quietly in small groups
via a more direct route, some of it through thick jungle. 'The
government had