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OAKLAND, Calif. — I am going back to Guatemala, but this time to the jungle. My family marvels at it — a return to a place crawling with desperate thieves and ex-paramilitary types? AK47s, snakes, overgrown Mayan ruins and a two-and-a-half-day hike into a place where even the Google Street Team dares not to go. [...]