Category: Global Views
Guatemalans celebrate the start of the last Mayan New Year before ancient calendar ends Dec. 21, 2012
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista GUATEMALA — From Nostradamus to Y2K, end-of-the-world prophesies are nothing new. This year, the ancient Mayans find themselves at the center of the Doomsday hype with conspiracy theorists and New Age authors all profiting greatly from the belief that the world will end on December 21, 2012. However, it’s not the [...]
Giving new life to old American school buses in Guatemala is subject of documentary premiering at SXSW
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista GUATEMALA — The yellow school bus has long been an iconic symbol of North American culture, transporting hundreds of thousands of students to school each day across the length and breadth of the United States. But what happens to these distinct vehicles once they’re deemed unfit for service? Mark Kendall’s new [...]
Guatemala: How many people can you fit inside a bus? First Guinness World Record for Guatemala
By Rudy Girón REVUE: Guatemala’s English-language Magazine GUATEMALA — In Poland they were able to get 209 people inside a bus. That was the Guinness World Record until yesterday (February 12) when in Jocotenango they were able to get 221 people and one chicken inside the chicken bus. This will be the first Guinness World [...]
Mexico: June in January — Weddings in the Campo
By Dr. Jacqueline Zaleski Mackenzie LatinaLista GUANAJUATO, MEXICO — Last fall, I was informed there was a wedding coming up on January 14th. The couple was friends of our adopted campo family. There was no written invitation to the wedding or the reception. Mid-December, a young man who has become a friend, came by with [...]
Guatemala launches Hunger Zero program to combat chronic malnutrition in over one million children in the country
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista Guatemala — This week sees the launch of President Otto Pérez Molina’s Hambre Cero (Zero Hunger) program, which aims to reduce chronic malnutrition throughout Guatemala. The program will be officially inaugurated on Thursday, February 16, in the village of San Juan Atitán, in the north-western department of Huehuetenango, which has the [...]
Venezuela: A fight for the presidency bears a bad reflection on Venezuelan politics
By Jennifer Barreto-Leyva LatinaLista CARACAS — We are about to experience an emotional day in Venezuela. On February 12, Venezuela will vote in the opposition’s primary elections. It is where the country will choose from among five different candidates, all of them with different political views and leanings but most of them with good intentions [...]
Mexican poet and activist, Javier Sicilia, plans to bring his peace caravan to the United States
LatinaLista — Anyone who has had an eye on Mexico’s escalating cartel violence knows about Javier Sicilia. Sicilia is one of Mexico’s leading authors and poets and someone for whom the violence seizing his homeland has became intensely personal. Last March, Sicilia’s son was brutally murdered by drug traffickers. Wracked with a parent’s grief, Sicilia [...]
Honduras Volunteer Network Sets Up Honduras Security Support Forum Online
Most humanitarian groups that have developed a connection to Honduras do not wish to abandon the country and its people, but they are searching for balanced information that is not influenced by the government, the business community, or political interest groups either on the left or the right. Honduras Weekly HONDURAS — The decision in [...]
American-born basketball player finds new home, new life and new fans in South America
By Jennifer Barreto-Leyva LatinaLista CARACAS — Born in 1973 and raised in Texas playing basketball, Tim Jones has had a fulfilling sports career. From the time he was very young, Jones stood apart from his teammates. His talent became clear during his college years when he helped to win the NCAA championship at Georgia State [...]
Artists Try Entrepreneurship, Collectives to Create Opportunities in Costa Rica
By Juliana Rincon Global Press Institute As in many countries, artists in Costa Rica say they can’t find work in their fields. For recent university graduates in the arts, low wages and a lack of social programs have inspired the creation of new artistic endeavors and collectives that aim to help young artists here pursue [...]
