Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Danilo Valladares GUATEMALA CITY, Sept 12, 2011 (IPS) – The violent eviction of 91 rural families in northern Guatemala was the latest incident in the ageold conflict over land in a country where the army is frequently called in to force peasant farmers off their land. "This [...]
CENTRAL AMERICA: Alternative Tourism Seeks to Overcome Obstacles
March 24, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Danilo Valladares GUATEMALA CITY, Mar 24, 2011 (IPS) – Most of the countries of Central America are lagging behind the rest of the tourist destinations in Latin America, despite their impressive natural and archaeological treasures. To turn this situation around, the area is increasingly focusing on alternatives [...]
"Yes I Can" Say Illiterate Adults in Guatemala
March 10, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Danilo Valladares GUATEMALA CITY, Mar 10, 2011 (IPS) – Concepción González, 42, never went to school. She remembers with frustration having to stamp her fingerprint because she couldn’t sign official documents, and having to respond "I don’t know" to her children’s homework questions. But the Guatemalan mother [...]
WOMEN’S DAY: Overcoming Barriers in Central America
March 7, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Danilo Valladares* GUATEMALA CITY, Mar 7, 2011 (IPS) – Amarilis Chilel, 15, left her hometown of Ixchiguán in northwest Guatemala to work as a domestic in the capital: a common story among rural girls and women in Central America. "I went to school up to fourth grade," [...]
Surviving the Sexist Genocide in Guatemala
February 9, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Danilo Valladares GUATEMALA CITY, Feb 8, 2011 (IPS) – "He would punch my head all the time, pull my hair, smack and kick me. And he would make me wear long sleeves to hide the bruises; even on my wedding day I had a black and blue [...]
A Janus View of Guatemala
December 8, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Julio Godoy http://www.indepthnews.net/ GUATEMALA CITY (IDN) – Something extraordinary happened in Guatemala City on December 2: Jean Marie Simon’s historic photos of the crimes committed by the Guatemalan army during the civil war’s peak years that exsanguinated the Central American country between 1979 and 1983, were shown [...]
GUATEMALA: Controversial Early Start to Election Campaign
November 16, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Danilo Valladares GUATEMALA CITY, Nov 15, 2010 (IPS) – Guatemala’s election campaign got off to a controversial and premature start, with an evangelical pastor, a military officer, a former president, the president’s wife and the daughter of a general who led a coup emerging as presidential hopefuls, [...]
GUATEMALA: Spreading Expertise on Integrated Waste Management
October 21, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Danilo Valladares* GUATEMALA CITY, Oct 21, 2010 (IPS) – Guatemala has more than 700,000 clandestine garbage dumps. But a growing network of public and private sector employees are receiving training in integrated waste management that they in turn pass on to others, as part of a unique [...]
FOOD-GUATEMALA: Bad Omens for 2011
October 17, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Danilo Valladares GUATEMALA CITY, Oct 16, 2010 (IPS) – Guatemala needs to take steps to prepare for even worse problems of hunger in 2011, caused by climate change and farmers’ heavy dependence on a few basic crops like corn and beans, experts warned on the occasion of [...]
