Great to see 'Entremoles a Guate' still going and producing as informative programmes as ever on interesting projects in Guatemalan civil society. This episode looks in particular at the work going on in the Cinemateca Universitaria and the work of Walter Figueroa.

When I saw this painstaking work to preserve the heritage of Guatemala, I couldn't help thinking of the moment that haunts Guatemala and underlines the need for heritage. The fateful moment when Diego de Landa burnt countless manuscripts containing years and years of Mayan culture. This was cultural imperialism at it most criminal. A kind of cultural genocide.

It's hard to imagine what the Western world would have been like if say the Romans or the Persians had decided to burn every paper containing the old and new testaments of the bible- and then on a whim another power had burnt the entire work of Socrates, Plato, Homer and Archimedes. It's unimaginable- but this is what happened to the Mayans and was repeated all over Latin America.