Guatemala is the only country in Central

America with a large In-
dian population. The In-
dians, mostly of Mayan
ancestry, are probably a majority, although it is hard to know for sure since there is much debate over who is, and who is not, an indigena. Once a fam- ily of Indians moves to the city, they can turn themselves into ladinos (as mestizos are called in much of Central America) af-ter a couple of generations if they learn to think and behave like ladinos-that is, if they speak o...