I’ve been putting off writing about Zacualpa. Guatemala, as a whole, was so emotionally charged, and so incessant, that I’ve been trying to avoid delving back into it all. My last few posts about Guatemala were hurried. I skimmed over the details, or simply provided photos, like those of Lote 8. I didn’t want to [...]
The church in the town of Zacualpa located in the Guatemalan Highlands is a place of suffering. Used in the internal conflict as a centre for detention and torture, it, along with many other places in the country, is now a place of memory. Here are candles we lit in memory of the people who [...]
In Zona 1 of Guatemala City, there is a huge amount of graffiti, much of it political. Whether it is related to mining, genocide, the disappeared or justice as a whole, you will be hard-pressed to find a block without some kind of political statement along the walls of its buildings. This is one of [...]
The day spent getting from Coban to El Estor felt like a lot of driving, but it was nothing compared to the day getting from El Estor back to Guatemala City. Part of the reason for this long drive was our indirect route to the city through the community of San Rafael del Flores. Like [...]
This is Emilio. Of all the people I met in Guatemala, this man sticks with me the most. Here, he is holding a canister of tear gas that was used against the women and children of Lote 8 during the evictions. He cried when he told us of how, at the age of 52, he [...]
Basing ourselves in the town of El Estor along the shores of Lake Izabal in the Eastern part of the country, these two days were spent conversing and learning about the contemporary issues in the region. The issues relate to the nickel mining companies located that has been based in the regional for over 40 [...]
We were at this small resort on the shores of Lake Izabal, meeting with the women (and their families) of Lote 8. Located near the town of El Estor in Eastern Guatemala, Lote 8 has been host to numerous atrocities. The village has been burned down, in addition to that 11 women from the community [...]
In many ways this day lacked the hurried chaos of the previous ones. There was a lot of driving, but fewer mentally taxing activities. The decreased number doesn’t mean it was a day any less interesting and thought-provoking. Early in the morning we headed down to the flood basin of the Chixoy to take a [...]
This is probably the worst photo I’ve ever posted as a Favourite Photo or any kind of featured photo. The reason for the poor quality is that we simply weren’t allowed to take photos of the military base or the exhumation. So here is a very zoomed in photo of the “UN troops” (as it [...]
Rio Negro is a community more isolated than any I’ve ever been to before. Located on the Chixoy Flood Basin (formerly a river), it is a tiny community of approximately 19 families that has suffered beyond belief. The, I guess I should call it an adventure, to Rio Negro started early in morning by meeting [...]
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