The church was completed in 1983 at the height of the civil war, during the military dictatorship of another evangelical, General Efrain Rios Montt. Changing the chapel flowers, Saturday morning. Six couples carry out the religious work for the community Catholic chapel for a year. Much of Mayan ritual is carried out across the landscape int he form of pilgrimages and processions. The winner of the school oratory contest.
Senior woman prepares cacao for men planting corn.
Cacao is the prestige drink of the Mayas and in its seed form it served as money. Corn is the staff of life. San Juan Chamelco on left. The winner in the center, from Quetzaltenango, is a doctor.