These are the people flying flags from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, South Korea and other places during the Los Angeles ...

But this changed in the 1980s at the height of Guatemala’s 36-year-long internal armed conflict, in which more than 200,000 people – the majority of whom were indigenous – were killed.

Guatemala raised its flag at the site of its new embassy in Jerusalem on Tuesday, ahead of its official opening next week following the inauguration of the United States' own new mission in the city.