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San Marcos was crazy. This photo was taken about an hour before we started hearing the evangelicals from all over the small village chanting. Levi and I spent half the night wondering if we were hearing a cult, but locals later informed us that the indigenous peoples in San Marcos switched their allegiances to evangelism during the war. It´s a U.S.-style evangelism favored by the government. During the civil war, many Catholic priests in Guatemala sided with the guerillas, and many people joined evangelical sects out of fear. In San Marcos, there are about six evangelical sects, that have about 10 parishoners each. At night, they howling (or singing, the hotel manager tried to convince me) to compete with each other. The howling is magnified by speakers and, with the wind and dogs barking, makes the town feel haunted.