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• Weekend round-up

  
  Inner Diablog — Authority: 142
  Ive had the strange sensation that it was Sunday all day today. Meanwhile V has been saying she has the sensation it was Monday...but not next Monday, last Monday. Its been one of those weeks I suppose - low on achievement - accompanied by some temporally-confused behaviour on the part of the weather, in which weve ...
  14 hours ago

• Guatemalan subcultures #1

  
  Inner Diablog — Authority: 142
  This is what many of the 4x4s you see on the streets of Antigua do in their spare time. A couple of our friends are founder members of this rebellious club for the teen-at-heart.... soltero(ne)s, por lo menos!
  2 days ago

• What social problems are associated with mining developments in LEDCs?

  
  Dr Laurie's Geog Blog — Authority: 113
  Mining is often a useful way for LEDCs to gain finanancially from their natural resources. However, large global mining companies and governments in developing countries often do not enforce the same planning, social and environmental standards as they would in MEDCs. Here are a couple of examples of the allegations ...
  2 days ago

• Guatemalan communities reject mining in local territory

  
  Guatemala Solidarity Network - — Authority: 91
  As multinational companies continue to seek licences for mineral exploitation in Guatemala, time and again local communities reject these initiatives in popular consultas comunitarias. Not only do they site the environmental damage that will be done to their lands, and the lack of any real economic benefit to the ...
  2 days ago

• Uncovering an Ancient Mayan Citys Secrets, with worlds largest pyramid

  
  Newsvine - MinnieApolis's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 427
  El Mirador covered an area larger than downtown Los Angeles, and Hansen believes it may be home to thousands of other pyramids, Baldwin said. The city was active from about 500 B.C. to A.D. 100.
  5 days ago

• Giant kites for celebrating the Day of the Dead in Guatemala

  
  Muhlberger's Early History — Authority: 130
  Click for a full-sized picture at The Big Picture.
  5 days ago

• While His Citizens Suffer, Guatemalan President Colom’s Administration Spawns Setbacks

  
  Council on Hemispheric Affairs — Authority: 470
  - The latest bizarre killing in the Rosenberg case – Mark Monson, an assistant to the judge presiding over the video recorded murder case – was shot and killed on Friday, representing one more crime without punishment which routinely takes place in today’s Guatemala.- Violence, abject poverty, and leadership ...
  5 days ago

• Visiting Hours [Snap Judgment]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 824
  [ Guatemala City , November 1. Image via Getty ] A Guatemalan indigenous woman looks for the tomb of a relative at the General cemetery in Guatemala City during the celebration of All Saints Day , November 1, 2009. AFP PHOTO Johan ORDONEZ. (Photo credit should read JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
  6 days ago

• GEM in LAG

  
  Inner Diablog — Authority: 142
  Robert aka GEM ( Gringo en México ) appears to have run out of Mexican locations to which he can take his peculiar brand of geniality, and so has passed down the isthmus and into Central America for his latest series. Last night he was here in La Antigua Guatemala, providing viewers with a slightly ...
  6 days ago

• Old shoes

  
  shawn dubya dot org — Authority: 427
  We all have them. Sometimes they’re in the back of the closet. Sometimes they’re in a container of some kind, stuffed away. Forgotten about. Until you’re looking for something else, something of value, and you happen upon them. And even then, you typically push aside the less valuable to ...
  6 days ago

• Guatemala in Living Color

  
  resonate — Authority: 420
  Thanks to Shawn for putting this together.  Each of these kids were abandoned by their parents and are now in an orphanage.  On behalf of MCC we put some love on these kids for 3 solid day.
  6 days ago

• Highlights of Latin America

  
  Itinerant Londoner — Authority: 122
  I had such an awesome time in Latin America it’s pretty hard to pick out favourite moments. But I’m going to give it a go anyway. Here are the best things I’ve seen and done over the past six and a half months, along with links to what I originally wrote about them.Favourite City: Valparaiso, [...]
  6 days ago

• Kill a chicken on your vacation?

  
  Your Story — Authority: 158
  A new Mayan adventure tour business is launched. What makes this Guatemalan tour operator different from others and why are people crowing about it?
  1 week ago

• All Souls Day - “May the Dead Rest in Peace”

  
  Holidays Around The World - Holidays Around The World — Authority: 138
  All Souls Day: November 2, 2009All Souls Day is celebrated in Mexica, USA, Latin America, South America and Canada.All Souls Day is a day celebrated in Mexico, Latin America, South America El Día de los Muertos. The holiday is dedicated for the living persons to visit their dead relatives in their graves and to honor ...
  1 week ago

• November Ferias

  
  Revue Magazine — Authority: 120
  photos by Victoria Stone Santa Catarina and San Andrés Late November brings us the opportunity to celebrate and observe another round of distinctly Guatemalan festivities, the ferias or town fairs of towns whose patron saints are St. Catherine (Santa Catarina), St. Martin (San Martín) and St. Andrew (San ...
  1 week ago

• A Guide for Architectural Tourists

  
  Revue Magazine — Authority: 120
  text and photos by Kathie Friedley The houses of La Antigua Guatemala My partner and I are architectural tourists. We are captivated by old houses and love to view them through a lens of culture and history. We came here to learn how history and domestic life merged to create the houses of this old Spanish colonial ...
  1 week ago

• The Antigua Photography Club

  
  Revue Magazine — Authority: 120
  Club Fotográfico de Antigua The local community of photographers will officially introduce itself to La Antigua this month with its first 
collective exhibit. The sentiment is a common one and spills from the lips of most residents and visitors alike: walking the streets of the quintessentially colonial town ...
  1 week ago

• The Guatemalan Hospitality Bug Bites All

  
  Revue Magazine — Authority: 120
  In Guatemala, it is easier to “just drop in” on your friends than it would be in Minneapolis or Melbourne. One reason, I think (write me if you disagree) is that until the end of the previous century telephone calls were something you rarely tried at home. That was when Italy’s telecommunications monopoly ...
  1 week ago

• El Grinch Returns to the stage

  
  Revue Magazine — Authority: 120
  “We are having so much fun!” bubbles Paloma Pérez-Templado, coordinator of this season’s production of El Grinch . Since April she has worked together with producer Johnny Long, Debora du Flon, director of scenery and costumes, and a team in charge of choreography, music and narration. Her expression changes ...
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• Find the Heliotrope

  
  Revue Magazine — Authority: 120
  Heliotrope plant (photo by Hubert J. Steed) Here’s a challenge for November — find the heliotrope. It’s there, around us, hidden among the rainbow of prolific colors in the Guatemalan spectrum, in weavings, on some walls, along the roadways. I said heliotrope, mind you, not fuchsia, indigo, lilac, mauve, ...
  1 week ago

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