Today, we started our stove building projects for the native Mayan people. We arrived in a village nestled on a mountainside and hiked part way up the mountain to a house that was going to receive a stove for a demonstration on how to build a stove with cinder blocks, mortar we made ourselves, and […]
Today, Tues. March 19, 2013, Guatemalan courts begin the first ever trial of a Latin American dictator in his own country. Reuters announced today that ” prosecutors allege Rios Montt turned a blind eye as soldiers used rape, torture and arson against leftist insurgents and targeted indigenous people during a ‘scorched earth’ military offensive that […]
Today we had the chance to participate in a traditional Mayan ceremony, which was performed by a Mayan priest. One of the ideas embedded within the Mayan culture is to “do as your heart desires.” This is evidenced by the fact that you only participated if your heart told you to. We stood in a […]
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