Last night on the news you heard from one young Guatemalan researcher on the territorial dispute. She told us that the claim is very alien to her generation - which did not grow up with it as a very live issue.

Same for Cindy Espian. She's a Guatemalan journalist and told us she did not grow up with a very strong awareness of the territorial dispute:...

Reporter
"Belize es nuestro, was longer being taught in school while you were growing up?"

Cindy Espian
"That wasn't the way that they teach us about Belize, because I am 27 years old - the way that they teach us about Belize it was we have a dispute with Belize and always the map with the lines."

Espina covered the referendum in Guatemala for her newspaper in April.

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