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• Project: Chocolá Archaeology

  By Patrick Daniels on June 19, 2008 • ( 0 )

  We were recently contacted with information about this interesting archaeological project: "The project’s research focuses on a major, hitherto overlooked, and very long-lived ancient Maya city located in the heart of the seminal Southern Maya Zone (SMZ). At an elevation… Read More ›

• Guatemalan Biologist wins a Whitley Award for Nature Conservation

  By Patrick Daniels on June 19, 2008 • ( 0 )

  I recently visited Wakehurst Place, a beautiful garden in West Sussex, but also home to the Millennium Seed Bank. The seed bank is aiming to collect and store seed of ten percent of the world’s flowering plants by 2010. In… Read More ›

• Plan Merida – can it make a difference to violence and drug trafficking?

  By Patrick Daniels on June 19, 2008 • ( 0 )

  John Negroponte, who was notoriously the US ambassador to Honduras during the contra war, but now is Subsecretary of the United States, has been visiting Central America recently. On 3 to 6 June he visited Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador… Read More ›

• PBS Documentary on National Police Archives

  By Patrick Daniels on June 19, 2008 • ( 0 )

  We have reported before about the discovery and analysis of the National Police archive. Whilst there never was going to be the smoking gun of the direct, explicit and written order to disappear someone, nevertheless a careful study of the… Read More ›

• Niña de Guatemala: The Engima of José Martí

  By Patrick Daniels on May 5, 2008 • ( 0 )

  Jose Marti has to be one of those cultural enigmas you come up against as an outsider in Guatemala. When you read or hear the poem ‘La niña de Guatemala’, perhaps like the hundreds of Guatemalan school kids who learn… Read More ›

• Jillian Tuck speaks at the event honoring Louis Vitale

  By Patrick Daniels on May 4, 2008 • ( 1 )

  Part two Jillian Tuck of Nisgua speaks at the event honoring Louis Vitale about the Guatemala’s history and system. More about Fr Louis Vitale here.

• Goldman: The Art of Political Murder

  By Patrick Daniels on May 1, 2008 • ( 0 )

  Goldman’s book was an impulse buy. Reviewed somewhere on the Guardian’s website, it was, apparently, an important book that Salman Rushdie rated. And it was set it Guatemala. Part of the world I’ve long felt an emotional affinity to. I… Read More ›

• Genocide Case Witnesses Testify in Guatemalan Court

  By Patrick Daniels on April 29, 2008 • ( 0 )

  Source: CAIG and NISGUA Date: 04/24/2008 The historic hearings in the genocide case continue. To date, seven eyewitnesses from three regions (Baja Verapaz, Quiché, and Huehuetenango) have testified to Judge Eduardo Cojulun Sánchez in the genocide case hearings. Their excruciating… Read More ›

• UK Foreign Office Minister, Meg Munn, visits Guatemala

  By Patrick Daniels on April 28, 2008 • ( 0 )

  Foreign Office Minister, Meg Munn, visits Guatemala as part of her official visit to Belize and Guatemala. Seems the Foreign Office is going Web 2.0 crazy with the YouTube videos and  Meg Munn’s Flickr set. Foreign Office website is currently… Read More ›

• Good news – historic conviction against police agent

  By Patrick Daniels on April 23, 2008 • ( 0 )

  Historic verdict in case of police officer accused of raping a woman in custody. On 16 April this year something unprecedented happened in in El Quiche: a police officer was convicted of raping and abusing a woman held in custody…. Read More ›