LatinaLista — Dr. Jacqueline Mackenzie is a Latina Lista contributor who shares her stories of what it’s like for an American living in a small town in Guanajuato, Mexico. This morning, she sent the following email. My Dear Amigos…
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista When David Elron first visited Guatemala in 2001 he was a carefree backpacker from Tel Aviv who thought he’d stay for a couple of weeks and then move on. However, after meeting a shaman in…
By Dave Mills Honduras Weekly February 6th was a typical Wednesday night in the United States. People came home from work, ate dinner and watched the daily news. Kids did their homework in between yawns. There was nothing out…
By Mayela Sanchez Global Press Institute More than 500 people disappeared in the 1960s and 1970s during Mexico’s Dirty War between the government and left-wing student and guerilla groups. Their relatives, led by a group of mothers, created a…
LatinaLista — Three years ago, a collaborative team of Mexican educators, engineers, artists and actors pooled their skills and created a program where they went into rural Mexican communities, lived with the people and taught them basic eco-sustainable practices…
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista When Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina first came to power just over a year ago, he promised to govern the country with a mano dura, an iron fist. After years of Mexican drug cartels muscling…
Honduras Weekly Fredín Fúnez of the Association of Jurists for the State of Law warned on Friday that national heritage sites such as the Maya ruins of Copán could be at risk of passing over to the control of…
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista There is something undeniably cool about motorbikes, cobbled streets and rock and roll. Combine all three and you have one of the most exhilarating ways to explore Guatemala’s most popular tourist town: driving through the…
By Adam Isacson and Maureen Meyer Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) Since 2011, WOLA staff have carried out research in six different zones of the U.S.-Mexican border, meeting with U.S. law enforcement officials, human rights and humanitarian groups,…
Álvaro Rocha for Somos Translated and adapted by Nick Rosen Peru This Week When Saul Escobar was punished for daring to speak his mother tongue inside a Ucayali school, it never occurred to him that one day he would…
By Milenka Frkovich Peru This Week (Note: This article originally ran in Peru This Week‘s sister publication, The Break.) Throughout my life I have seen many people, including close friends and family, struggle with cancer. This horrible disease serves…
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista GUATEMALA — In the small pueblo of Chimaltenango, just 45 minutes outside of Guatemala City, a group of young people from across Guatemala and neighbouring El Salvador gather for a 4-day youth leadership congress, organised…
By Dina Gonzalez Global Press Institute Thousands of people in Buenos Aires work independently or with the government to collect and resell recyclable materials in the absence of an institutionalized recycling system. The business offers a chance to make…
By J.T. Larrimore Council on Hemispheric Affairs A day after Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s inauguration, opposition leaders met with the new leader to sign the “Pact for Mexico”, a bipartisan agreement to increase economic cooperation and improve the…
Honduras Weekly The species-diverse forest in Honduras is so seriously at risk from deforestation and mismanagement that UNESCO has put it on the “red list” of world heritage sites in danger. Who does the forest belong to? The Garifuna…
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista In few places are security guards as prevalent as in Guatemala. Analysts estimate that there are between 100,000 and 150,000 private security agents working in the country, which outnumber the 25,000 police officers by at…
LatinaLista — The prospect of a future where 50 percent of the population have never graduated from high school sounds almost like a sci-fi thriller, except there’s no need to wait for the future — it’s happening now. In…
LatinaLista — After the Fukushima nuclear disaster last year when the world watched in horror as Japan battled nuclear meltdowns, the release of radioactive materials in their land, food and water supplies and tackled the worst nuclear disaster since…
By Daniel Higa Alquicira Infosurhoy.com MEXICO CITY – Since he was a child, Luis Alberto Ramos Hernández dreamed of singing and dancing on the world’s biggest stages. But coming from a low-income family in the Colonia Anáhuac of the…
By José de la Isla LatinaLista MEXICO CITY — Elia Andrade Rojas and I sit down on a bench on Avenida Juárez. She was telling me about her collective’s mission to embroider handkerchiefs, (pañuelos), of the dead and missing…
By Shannon K. O’Neil LatIntelligence As President Calderón’s sexenio wraps up tomorrow, he will leave office with a mixed legacy. Many have presented interesting analyses of his policies, but this post looks at concrete numbers—development indicators and the like—to…
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista With its striking landscape and picturesque vistas of rolling mountains and erupting volcanoes, it comes as no surprise that Guatemala is a haven for aspiring photographers. This month, November, the country’s capital has been transformed…
By Stephanie Leutert LatIntelligence Over the last decade, poverty, and inequality have fallen throughout Latin America. Behind these positive trends are external factors, such as high global commodity prices and substantial foreign direct investment flows, as well as internal…
By Ada M. Alvarez Conde LatinaLista San Juan, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico spent a long night on Election Day waiting for an outcome that didn’t just determine the island’s next four years, but it’s entire future. Filled with…
By Manuel Vigo Peru This Week A group of self-described Peruvian shamans carried out a ceremony at Lima’s Cerro San Cristobal on Monday, where they expressed their support for President Barack Obama, ahead of Tuesday’s presidential election, RPP reported….
