By: Nancy SabasLocal women showing their weaving project ¨Women in the bible¨The department of Morazán in the Northeast side of El Salvador hides in it a small and picturesque town: Perquin. It is certainly a v...
By Nancy Sabas¨Are you the same ones that came to kill my people?¨ asked hesitantly an Ixil community Elder to a group of 10 curious students soon-to-become teachers from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada....
By Tobias Roberts, MCC Guatemala. This article was originally published by the Huffington Post on December 24, 2012.
From opulent shopping malls in the Unites States to corners of crumbling adobe houses in rur...
By Chris Hershberger Esh, MCC’s Context Analyst for Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Mexico City.
In Central America, Evangelical churches are similar to gangs, Robert Brenneman explained to a group o...
By Rebekah Sears, Policy Analyst and Educator for MCC Colombia
In July and August of 2013, I took a break from my regular work in Colombia to study Spanish in Guatemala. While there, I learned a lot about ...
By Chris Hershberger Esh, MCC’s Context Analyst for Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Mexico City.
On Sunday, a cargo train derailed near Villahermosa, Mexico. Aboard this cargo train were 250 Centra...
Coffee time at INESIN, Rick Block on the far right
By Rick Block is an agronomist working with MCC Mexico partner, INESIN, in Chiapas Mexico. He describes the situation of small farmers losing 75% of their co...
By Adrienne Wiebe, MCC Latin America Policy Analyst/Educator
Former Guatemalan Dictator, Ex-General Ríos Montt was sentenced to 80 years in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity on May 10, 2013.
How...
May 2, 2013 - Tobias Roberts, an MCC service worker in Nebaj, is accompanying this community in this tense situation. The community is asking for international attention to ensure that the situation is resolve...
By Tobias Roberts, MCC Guatemala
About a month after my wife and I arrived to the small, Mayan-Ixil town of Nebaj, Guatemala, we received our welcoming into the reality of the Ixil people when the town was occ...