Guatemala – Page 6

Plague threatens Small-Scale Coffee Producers

June 24, 2013

Country Programs, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Rural Justice

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...

Ríos Montt – One Night in Prison

May 22, 2013

Country Programs, Guatemala, Rural Justice, Urban Peacebuilding

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...

URGENT: Government Repression of the Mayan Ixil People of Nebaj, Guatemala

May 3, 2013

Country Programs, Guatemala, Rural Justice

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...

Corporate Rights over People’s Rights: The Expansion of ENEL in Latin America

February 7, 2013

Country Programs, Guatemala, Rural Justice, Uncategorized

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...

Are There Alternatives to Migration?

December 9, 2012

Country Programs, Guatemala, Migration

Flower production project in Guatemala Para leer en español By Adriana Koehn, Connecting Peoples Coordinator, MCC Guatemala. Here she reflects on the "Alternatives to Migration Learning Tour" of MCC worker...

Broken Bodies on the Border

October 31, 2012

Country Programs, Guatemala, Mexico, Migration, Uncategorized

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Para leer en Español By Adrienne Wiebe, MCC Latin America On the southern border of Mexico, undocumented migrants from Central America pay with their bodies for their attempts to overcome poverty and flee vio...

For the sake of humanity: The Need for Immigration Reform

April 10, 2012

Country Programs, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Migration

Tammy Alexander, Legislative Associate for Domestic Affairs, MCC Washington D.C. Office reflects on the individuals and families behind the policy debates in the USA. This post originally appeared in http://pea...

On the Move: Mariposas and Migrants

March 21, 2012

Country Programs, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Migration

In Fall each year about 100 million migrants travel from the Great Lakes area of Canada and the United States to central Mexico. Yes, you read that correctly – 100 MILLION migrants…. It is about a 3000-kilomet...

Reverence for the Sacred Land: Part 2 – A Third Option?

February 26, 2012

Country Programs, Guatemala, Urban Peacebuilding

This is the second part of Tobias Roberts' article about responses to urban violence in Central America. Tobias is an MCC Service worker in Nebaj, Guatemala. The full article was originally published in http:/...

Reverence for the Sacred Land: Part 1 – Inadequate responses to endemic violence in Central America

February 21, 2012

Country Programs, Guatemala

In Part 1 of this post, MCCer Tobias Roberts, in Nebaj, Guatemala, explores his contrasting experiences with urban life in Central America, and the inadequacies of the dominant responses to daily violence. In P...

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