Bastienne Schmidt, a German photographer based in New York, covered several stories in Guatemala, mainly dealing with the ubiquity of religion in Indian communities. Catholicism intinged with native rites but traditional convictions are the target of "witch-hunts" led by the authorities, infiltrated by the Evangelic Church. For many Indians who wish to escape their precarious life and climb a few steps on the social ladder there is no salvation apart from converting to the dominant religious ideology. And on a more general scale, the government continues its "crusade" towards any display of native culture.