A community of 230 Orthodox Jews from several countries today (August 28, 2014) began leaving the Guatemalan Indian village where they have lived for six years after claims and counterclaims of discrimination and threats, the AFP (Agence-France Presse) website reports.
The exit from San Juan La Laguna -- located on the banks of Lake Atitlan and 125 miles from the capital Guatemala City -- follows a meeting yesterday in which Jewish and indigenous representatives failed to reach an agreement.
"We are a people of peace and in order to avoid an incident we've already begun to leave the village," Misael Santos, a representative from the Jewish community, told AFP.
They had received threats, Santos said. "We have a right to be there, but they threatened us with lynching if we don't leave the village," he added.
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