PAZ in contexts of violence
Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, location of the MCC Retreat January 2012
Adriana Koehn is the Connecting Peoples Program Coordinator in MCC Guatemala. This article was posted on January 24 on their program website ...
Guatemala: How can the cycles of violence be broken?
“It was like having to chose between cancer and AIDS.”
This is the phrase I heard frequently during a recent trip when talking with Guatemalans about the impossible choice that voters had in the elections in N...
Two Blogs and One Book
Here is some advocacy-related news from around MCC Latin America: community-based engagement in Colombia, community-corporation negotiations in Guatemala, and research for peace-building in Bolivia.
Colombia
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Migration Checkpoint
Miriam Harder has recently begun an MCC service assignment working in conservation agriculture in Chiapas, Mexico, and in Central America. In this blog, she recounts an encounter with the realities of immigrati...
Conflict of Reasonability – A Guatemalan Indigenous Community vs. an Italian Energy Corporation
Tobias Roberts, MCC service worker in Guatemala, describes the contrasting worldviews that have led to the breakdown in negotiations between a Mayan community and an Italian corporation building a dam, and expl...
A Shared Song: Argentinian Folk-Singer Facundo Cabral Killed Yesterday
Facundo Cabral, Argentinian singer-songwriter, aged 74, was killed in Guatemala City early Saturday morning, July 9, by gunmen. He was on his way to the airport after giving several concerts. It is still unclea...
A Precedent for Indigenous Economic Rights?
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Palo Viejo Dam, Cotzal, Nebaj, GuatemalaTobias Roberts, an MCCer in Nebaj, Guatemala, has been asked by Maya-Ixhil communities to be an official observer in precedent setting negogiations between these indige...
Goldcorp & Me
Goldcorp and Me OR how Guatemalan Subsistence Farmers fund my son’s university education and my retirement
As strange and twisted as it sounds, Mayan subsistence farmers in Guatemala are getting poorer so that...