Tradition says that in moment of panic gold is the refuge, but this time gold has not been a good recommendation.
These are the questions being asked to antiamericans. Why, in the middle of the worst financial crisis since the great depression, the collapse of the banking system and the strongest recession experienced in our lives, is the dollar getting stronger and is giving a hard and strong lesson to the the traditional gold?
With gold prices skyrocketing, the Mayans of Guatemala find themselves caught up in a new rush for the precious metal.
Mario Tema sits across from me, a Mayan with a mission.
We are in the town of Sipacapa in the Western Highlands of Guatemala, washing down a breakfast of tamale and beans with a cup of freshly brewed coffee.
As he tells me of the town's fight against a huge open pit gold mine, that famous picture of Che Guevara gazes at us from the wall. Here in Sipacapa, Mario Tema is an anti-mining icon.