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Guatemala News | September 2007
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Guate and Antigua
Well yesterday I logged in 90 days here in Guatemala. Tomorrow I have 6 weeks left until I fly back to the states. I am very much looking forward to seeing all my friends and family again. Today after teaching I was just reflecting on things back home and I came to an interesting realization. I realized that I have my own comfy couch and reclining chair. I have my own tv and dvd player. But none of this time have I been missing any material things except for my car (for good reason). The only things I have missed are things that are not things, but people. I have missed my family, friends, my church family and my extracurricular activities at church...
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The Massage
San Marcus La Lagua, the new age center of Guatemala. After class August, Paul and myself took at 20 minute boat ride across the lake to do some exploring in San Marcus. Originally, they were going to hike a volcano but the rainy weather wasn't making it possible.
San Marcus is very beautiful and tranquil town, but that is about it. There are hardly any restaurants or bars and everything is closed during the day or open for very limited hours. The main draw for visitors to the town is for a massage or to attend a yoga and meditation retreat...
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The Splendor of Fuego (video) .
The Fuego volcano had been rumbling all day. Come dusk the gushes of lava were exploding, incandescent against the azur sky. Come night the show was simply spectacular. We drove to the foothills and took this footage, mesmerized by this privileged fiery spectacle..
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Guatemala's Kafta-esque Year
CAFTA went into effect a year ago in Guatemala and a number of regrettable things have happened since. To mention a few examples: 195 million Guatemalan Quetzals (equivalent to US$25 million) have been diverted from Ministry of Education funds to the civil aviation authority to extend an airport, which speaks volumes about the priority of transporting goods over educating children. The political climate is deteriorating rapidly. It would be easy to go on about government scandals, but the focus of this article is international economics. One year after the implementation of CAFTA, the reality seems totally at odds with the prediction made by U.S. Ambassador, James Derham...
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We are in Guatemala !
After a decent night of sleep, I chat to my girlfriends, eeeeaaaarly in the morning for me, go and get coffee, have a little breakkie and: the owners of the B&B take us to the ferry!
We got on our fancy yacht and after an hour: Guatemala. Luckily Hubby is a bit better informed then me: the immigration office is NOT at the harbor. If you do not sign in, you are an illegal immigrant and will get into big trouble leaving the country. We do find it in the end. No questions asked. We walked by a couple of ‘hotels’...
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Recuperating the Land that Belongs to Us
The indigenous Q’eqchi’ community of Barrio Revolucion was among the six groups evicted during three rounds of forced evictions in November 2006 and January 2007. Canadian mining company Skye Resources, which acquired the controversial property rights granted in the 1960s by a repressive military dictatorship to International Nickel Company (INCO), sought the evictions...
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