Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on or emanating from Guatemala.
As a human rights activist, AngĆ©lica Macario was used to the hubbub and noise of protests and to seeing her people take…
In reading historian Marcus Rediker, one can learn a great deal about the āGolden Age of Piracy.ā Far from being cruel brutes,…
Outside the window, a storm gathers over Lake Atitlan. Inside, more than 50 women activists, including Guatemalan indigenous land defenders, international feminist…
The blue of Lake AtitlĆ”n fades into the dark green vegetation on the slopes of the AtitlĆ”n, TolimĆ”n and San Pedro volcanoes…
AsunciĆ³n Mita is a town of roughly 40,000 people in the hills of southeastern Guatemala, near the border with El Salvador. Itās…
It was on the streets of Guatemala City in 1987 that I began awakening to Israelās partnership with the United States in…
Do you think Iāll be able to take a collectivo to Guatemala City tomorrow?ā I ask Esau Rosa, a humanitarian worker from San Salvador.…
Guatemala Cityās Central Plaza was a sea of cautious optimism on Jan. 14. But just up the street, a march organized by…
Anti-corruption activist Bernardo ArĆ©valo was sworn in as Guatemalaās president early Monday after months of fierce opposition from the Central American nationās…
Over the past 10 weeks, the communal political system in Guatemala has turned party politics on its head. An energetic Indigenous rebellion…
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