 Art Newspaper, UK
Following a remarkable trial, full of intrigue, shifting allegiances and witness intimidation, three members of the same family, Salvador Coy Bol, Ciriaco Coy Cabnal and Publio Paau Coc are now serving sentences in a Guatemalan jail after being convicted them of stealing an eighth-century Mayan altar from an archaeological site and then threatening to kill anyone who told the authorities. The trial was Guatemala’s first criminal prosecution of antiquities thieves and the first of its kind in Latin America. Archaeologists and prosecutors hope the verdict and the prison sentences for the three men will have a powerful deterrent effect on the looting of the country’s many Mayan sites.
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