By Vivienne Stanton 

(Published in Inside Mexico, December 2007) 

Luis Osorio Castillo can’t remember which came first—was it the flash of metal, or the poke of steel against his ribs? 

The tall, 21-year-old Nicaraguan with gentle eyes and a thin moustache had been in Guatemala City less than half an hour when the bandits held him up. Three pistol and machete-wielding men with scarves wrapped over their faces stole… Read more