Was it genocide or wasn’t it?
2013 Mayo Guatemala
Was genocide committed in Guatemala or not? There’s the possibility of an ideological trap in equating Guatemalan genocide with Nazi genocide and concluding...
Totonicapán: The story of the first massacre since the peace
2012 Noviembre Guatemala
On Wednesday October 3, I was in Quetzaltenango giving a workshop on Mayan leadership to young indigenous people when we were alerted by people there...
Will the World Really End in 2012?
2011 Enero Internacional
It is being said that the world will end in 2012. Even some scholars have backed it up. Novels have been written and movies filmed on the subject....
María: Mother, Wife, Indigenous Woman,Emigrant and Voluntary Returnee
2008 Octubre Centroamérica
We visited María in Xicalcal, a rural, almost urban village near the city of Zacualpa, located on a plain at the foot of the Chuacús mountain chain....
Deportation from the USA: An “Illegal” Guatemalan’s Tale
2008 Junio Guatemala
Guatemala is witnessing a speeded- up deportation of its migrants living in the United States. A recent study by the Office of Human Rights Ombudsman...
Rigoberta Menchú: A Shooting Star in the Electoral Sky?
2007 Julio Guatemala
What has happened to Rigoberta Menchú’s candidacy for President of Guatemala? Didn’t several polls show her as the most widely recognized person in...
A Central American at the World Social Forum
2004 Marzo Internacional
I didn’t know exactly what I was going to. I imagined that it would be like the congresses organized by the Latin American Studies Association (LASA),...
What Lies Ahead for the Xicaques, Kunas, Garífunas and Mayas?
2002 Noviembre Centroamérica
Where are Central America’s indigenous movements heading? What future do they have and what is their capacity to influence their respective civil society...
A Portrait in Pastels of Honduras’ New Cardinal
2001 Enero Honduras
The news, previously only an unbelievable rumored possibility, reached Honduras on Sunday, January 21: at noon, the hour of the Angelus, the Pope had...
Land Occupation Opens the Way For Agrarian Reform
2000 Septiembre Honduras
A round mid night on May 14, 700 landless peasants of Aguán, on Honduras’ northern coast, occupied lands that belonged to the now dismantled Regional...
How Dollar Remittances Are Changing a Village
2000 Mayo Centroamérica
US Embassy Uses Carrot On Corruption…After very specific criticisms of the government’s laxity in dealing with corruption, US Ambassador Oliver...
A Year after Mitch: Organization and Hope
1999 Noviembre Honduras
Throughout this post-Mitch year, national life has been dominated by reconstruction, a process that has gone through four basic stages. Each stage has...
Raining Questions
1999 Octubre Honduras
Of all the threats to Honduras that could be gleaned from the almost unintelligible weather forecasts that followed the Independence Day celebrations...
The Old Man and the Tigers
1999 Agosto Honduras
The official response to the reports was that “there has been no attempted coup. The President has been in control of the situation at all times. Changes...
Questioning the Unions And Monitoring Corruption
1999 Mayo Honduras
The heat in northern Honduras is insufferable. The weather forecasts foreboding an early and extensive rainy season have everyone worried. Even if the...
An Exodus in Search of Housing
1999 Abril Honduras
Five months have passed since the waters of the Pelo River suddenly and furiously rose, breaking their banks and sweeping away hundreds of houses in...
Budding Organization And a Hurricane of Contradictions
1999 Enero Honduras
What is being done? How are the refugees faring? Is the aid reaching them? How are Hondurans using the aid they are being sent? These are some of the...
First Reflections On the Wounds Mitch Inflicted
1998 Diciembre Honduras
Alert: grade 5 hurricaneWe learned through the media that this dangerous hurricane was forming on October 23, just days before Mitch hit Honduras....
Research and Social Action: Keys for an Alliance
1998 Noviembre América Latina
Academics look down on grassroots researchers. Social activists complain that researchers are slow and removed from reality. Some analysts are bureaucrats...