By Dr. Jacqueline Zaleski Mackenzie LatinaLista GUANAJUATO, MEXICO — On Friday, March 23rd at 4:30pm the local church bell began to chime loudly as I was packing up my laptop to head home from my new office space in…
LatinaLista — His full name was Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo. Yet the world knew this prolific Argentine poet and writer simply as Jorge Luis Borges. Born in Buenos Aires on August 24, 1899 and died in Geneva,…
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Renown Spanish sculptor coaxes the souls of his subjects into masterpieces
Apr 2, 2012, 5:18 PM 0
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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Nicaragua: New extreme sport “Volcano Boarding” leaves all others in the “ash”
Mar 16, 2012, 2:23 PM 1
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…
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Going Global on a Shoestring and a Smartphone
Mar 12, 2012, 8:02 AM 1
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…
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Documentary uncovers Guatemala’s genocidal agenda targeting the Maya
Mar 5, 2012, 12:21 PM 2
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…
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Communities Celebrate Traditional Carnival in Northwestern Argentina
Mar 2, 2012, 12:31 PM 0
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…
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…
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Guatemalans celebrate the start of the last Mayan New Year before ancient calendar ends Dec. 21, 2012
Feb 22, 2012, 11:05 AM 2
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…
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Giving new life to old American school buses in Guatemala is subject of documentary premiering at SXSW
Feb 20, 2012, 10:47 AM 2
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….
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Guatemala: How many people can you fit inside a bus? First Guinness World Record for Guatemala
Feb 17, 2012, 12:07 PM 2
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…
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…
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Guatemala launches Hunger Zero program to combat chronic malnutrition in over one million children in the country
Feb 13, 2012, 9:18 AM 1
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,…
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Venezuela: A fight for the presidency bears a bad reflection on Venezuelan politics
Feb 10, 2012, 11:41 AM 0
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,…
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Mexican poet and activist, Javier Sicilia, plans to bring his peace caravan to the United States
Feb 1, 2012, 4:21 PM 0
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….
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Honduras Volunteer Network Sets Up Honduras Security Support Forum Online
Jan 31, 2012, 10:59 AM 0
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…
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American-born basketball player finds new home, new life and new fans in South America
Jan 26, 2012, 3:28 PM 1
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…
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Artists Try Entrepreneurship, Collectives to Create Opportunities in Costa Rica
Jan 25, 2012, 1:00 PM 0
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…
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Thousands of Guatemalans climb extinct volcano to protest domestic violence
Jan 24, 2012, 12:56 PM 1
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista GUATEMALA — Around 12,000 Guatemalans climbed an extinct volcano on Saturday, January 21, 2012, to protest against domestic violence in the Central American country. Participants formed what they hope is the largest ever human chain,…
By Matt Bokor REVUE The Mayan ruins of Quiriguá in Izabal and El Zotz in Petén, as well as the historic architecture of Belize City, have been included on the World Monuments Fund (WMF) 2012 Watch, a list of…
Honduras Weekly But there remain tremendous social and economic needs in Honduras, as in El Salvador and Guatemala. Abandoning these countries may be a sensible precaution for the Peace Corps, but it must be said that the move comes…
