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Guatemalan Women Misrepresented by Guatemala's Tourism Board

Categories: Latin America, Guatemala, Ethnicity & Race, Indigenous, Travel, Women & Gender

“Please help me comprehend what’s wrong with our indigenous women that Guatemala’s Tourism Board hires light-skin ladinas and white women to represent our women? I need help understanding what’s wrong with the other 45% of the population? Don’t mestizos, ladinos, blacks and whites fit the ‘Guatemalan profile'?” asks Rudy Girón in AntiguaDailyPhoto [1].