Guatemala's Ide's of March?

Caesar summoned the Senate to meet in the Theatre of Pompey on the Ides of March. A certain seer warned Caesar to be on his guard against a great peril on the day of the month of March which the Romans call the Ides; and when the day had come and Caesar was on his way to the senate-house, he greeted the seer with a jest and said: "The Ides of March has come," and the seer said to him softly: "Yes, the Ides of March has come, but it has not passed."^[3]

As the Senate convened, Caesar was attacked and stabbed to death by a group of senators who called themselves the Liberatores ("Liberators"); they justified their action on the grounds that they committed tyrannicide, not murder, and were preserving the Republic from Caesar's alleged monarchical ambitions.

not sure what is happening in this country, but my gut is not comfortable. Revolutionaries had captured many police in Livingston, the Entry Port of the Carribean side of Guatemala, and this week also in separate episodes, there have been other Indigenous Revolts. Tonight I heard a comment from Antigua, the ex capital that the country was near breakdown.

We will see...but my anchor is up and dock lines loose. I'd really love to be wrong here.

UPDATE----March 18th, 2008: The Ides of March was supposed to be March 15th for the Romans. Here in Guatemala on March 15th, 4 Belgian tourists and their guides were kidnapped from a launcha on the Rio Dulce. This is a Major change in the battle of the indigenous indians vs. the government in their dispute/ occasional confrontation over "Land Issues". Reports are the military tracked them down and shot one of the captors. This morning a warning came in to us mariners on the river over the VHF radio, by the local Jungle Medic, an American doing Great Work here for the indians, that the indians are very aggressive and had possibly set a trap for him last evening; he suggests a high level of caution for any travelers. Things appear to be escalating!