Category: Global Views
Renown Spanish sculptor coaxes the souls of his subjects into masterpieces
By Leslie J. López LatinaLista SPAIN — Jesús Méndez Lastrucci has his sculpting workshop in Seville close to Imaginero Castillo Lastrucci Street – the street named after his great-grandfather for whom more than one thousand religious images are attributed. Castillo Lastrucci is credited for “repopulating” many churches with his works after the Spanish Civil War, [...]
Marathon fever comes to the shores of Guatemala’s Atitlán
By Dwight Wayne Coop REVUE: Guatemala’s English-language Magazine GUATEMALA — What would make people want to run barefoot uphill for eight kilometers? The answer: a 1958 foot race departing Panajachel for nearby San Andrés Semetabaj. Scores of participants could not afford shoes, but they would not let this keep them out of the race. The [...]
El Salvador: The confusing good news from El Salvador
Tim’s El Salvador Blog The murder rate is down dramatically in El Salvador in the past two weeks. The rate has fallen from an average of 13 murders a day to only 5. But the reasons why are murky and confused. In my last post, I mentioned a report by the online periodical El Faro [...]
Child Mummy Exhibition Generates Controversy in Argentina
By Ivonne Jeannot Laens Global Press Institute Some years ago, a group of archaeologists found the frozen corpses of three indigenous children atop a volcano, which they determined had been Inca sacrifices. Today, the perfectly conserved corpses are on exhibition at a museum in northwestern Argentina, where thousands of people come to see them every [...]
Spain: National strike called for country this week
By Leslie J. López LatinaLista SPAIN — The social disagreement goes on. Both of the major labor unions in Spain — General Union of Workers (UGT, its Spanish acronym) and the Workers’ Commissions (CC.OO) — have announced a national strike, on March 29, just as Easter vacation begins. It is timed to be the day [...]
Nicaragua: New extreme sport “Volcano Boarding” leaves all others in the “ash”
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista NICARAGUA — I used to think you needed water, waves and a wetsuit to surf. I was wrong. When I first arrived in Nicaragua, I’d never heard of volcano boarding and thought it would be enough of a feat to scale a volcano, let alone hurtle down one on a wooden [...]
Going Global on a Shoestring and a Smartphone
By Richard Lakin CSRwire In the past year, the ability of digital media to promote social change has been amply proven by the Arab Spring, WikiLeaks, and the Occupy movement. We saw this start a few years ago in Iran, but in the last 12-14 months there has been an even more robust and growing [...]
Documentary uncovers Guatemala’s genocidal agenda targeting the Maya
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista GUATEMALA — “Ever since I filmed these Generals in 1982 I’ve wanted to see them pay for their crimes,” says filmmaker Pamela Yates. Accompanied by a fierce determination to unmask a hidden war, Yates originally went to Guatemala in the eighties to make a documentary about the fighting between the Guatemalan [...]
Communities Celebrate Traditional Carnival in Northwestern Argentina
By Ivonne Jeannot Laens Global Press Institute QUEBRADA DE HUMAHUACA, ARGENTINA – Communities of the Quebrada de Humahuaca, a UNESCO National and Cultural Heritage of Humanity site, celebrated one of the most traditional and famous Carnivals in Argentina from Feb. 18 to 21. Andean community members forgot about the strains of daily life in order [...]
Guatemalan Government Launches Femicide Unit
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista GUATEMALA — When you open a newspaper in Guatemala you are invariably greeted by a series of numbers: • How many people were killed the previous day, • How many people have been arrested in conjunction with the crime. The answers are typically: high and zero. During the past decade, the [...]
