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...
Home Part 2: Constructing “home” in Haiti
Half a million internally displaced Haitians still live in camps two years after the earthquake. Photo by A. Wiebe
January 12, 2012 was the second anniversary of the earthquake in Hait...
From Displacement Camps to Community in Haiti – Part 1 Policy Solutions
Haitians actively claim the right to housing. Photo by Ben Depp
January 12, 2012 will be the second anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti. In this post, Alexis Erkert and Beverly Bell of Other Worlds, descri...
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.
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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...
Love your Enemies in Six Movements
This is a devotional that Marion Meyer shared at a gathering of MCC Connecting Peoples Coordinators in Honduras, September, 2011. Marion and her husband, Ricardo Torres, are the Country Representatives for MC...
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...
Caravan of Central American Mothers search for missing Migrants in Mexico
The Casa de los Amigos, the Quaker house in Mexico City, is an MCC partner, and they recently hosted a very moving visit of Central American mothers searching for their children who have disappeared in Mexico w...
Mexican Day of the Dead: Cause of Death?
Wednesday, November 2nd was “Day of the Dead” here in Mexico.
This national holiday is a unique combination of Pre-Hispanic and Catholic traditions in which families remember deceased family members. Linked wi...