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Clarification: Guatemala-Goldman Environmental Prize story

Clarification: Guatemala-Goldman Environmental Prize story | iNFOnews.ca
In this April 18, 2017 photo, Maya Q'eqchi leader Rodrigo Tot poses for photos during an interview in Guatemala City. Tot, who has been awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize, said he was grateful for the honor but remains the same leader and person as before. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo) A

GUATEMALA CITY – In an April 24 story about Goldman Environmental Prize-winner Rodrigo Tot, The Associated Press reported that in the 1980s during Guatemala’s civil war he was conscripted into civilian patrols a U.N.-sponsored report has classified as paramilitary groups, some of them unarmed, that were created to assist the army. Tot says his duties consisted solely of manning highway checkpoints that monitored travellers.

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