- Panzós
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footnotes =Panzós is a municipality in the
Guatemala n department ofAlta Verapaz . On29 May 1978 the village of Panzós was the site of a massacre in which between 30 and 60 (figures vary) local inhabitants were killed by the army in a dispute over land rights with Canadian nickel mining companyVale Inco . [cite web | url=http://assets.cambridge.org/052184/083X/excerpt/052184083X_excerpt.htm | title=Political Movements and Violence in Central America | last=Brockett | first=Charles | publisher=Cambridge University Press | accessdate=2008-08-16] [cite web | url=http://www.dominionpaper.ca/arts/2006/05/04/portraits_.html | title=Portraits of Strength : The women of Panzós | last=Peters | first=Moira | publisher=The Dominion | date=2008-05-04 | accessdate=2008-08-16]The name Panzós means "place of the green waters", in reference to the nearby
Polochic River and swamps full of alligators and birds. [cite book | title=The Rough Guide to Guatemala | author=Iain Stewart, Mark Whatmore, Peter Eltringham | publisher=Rough Guides | pages=315 | isbn=9781858288482]References
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