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Police Raid at La Terraza

Point 1: I guess the police want you to come and relax in Antigua Guatemala so long as you do it naturally; …

Guatemalan Police Patrol Trucks

Police patrol trucks, really? I am sure that’s a normal question asked when people are told that all police patrol units in …

New Traffic Police Officers

Fortunately, La Antigua Guatemala is still mostly a pedestrian town, but it gets its share of vehicular traffic and before it gets …

Guatemalan Police Anecdotes

One of the benefits of living in a third world country is that you don’t need to read Cien años de soledad …

Supervising the Municipal Police

So you wanted to know what happened to the Indigenous singers from February 2nd, right? Well the municipal police told them that they also needed to work and that if they did not have a permit to sing on the streets their supervisor would get on their case. Sure enough, less than a half of block away, these two tourist police were stopped by their supervisors. The Indigenous singers were told to go to the ‘Muni’ to get a permit to sing on the streets. I am not sure such permit exists, not for the Indigenous people, for sure.

Guatemalan Policemen At Work

In this tiny office of this building, the Captains’ Palace, two police officers take crime reports, charges and denounces, all under the …

Tuk Tuk Police

Tuk Tuk police, arrest this man, he talks in maths He buzzes like a fridge, he’s like a detuned radio Tuk Tuk …

Police Station building

Arches in the Police and Government Building. This is in the south side of the Central Park. In the north side of …

Calle del Arco May Turn Into a Pedestrian Passageway

Calle del Arco is Turning Into a Pedestrian Pathway

Yesterday I noticed how the municipal transit police closed completely the one block where the Arco de Santa Catalina is located. Honestly, they should have turned the entire strip of 5a avenida, from Parque Central to Iglesia de La Merced, into a pedestrian pathway, don’t your agree?

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Sweeping Changes in Guatemala

Zero violence! Only love, happiness and peace while Guatemalans are changing the country forever with their manifestations and rejection of corruption at …

Real Guatemala: Los Policías

Alright, we will finish the first part of the Real Guatemala series with portrait of two police officers who were deployed during …

Motorcycles for Everything

As I have mentioned before, motorcycles are on their way to become the most popular vehicle in Guatemala. So mucho so that …

Much Ado About Nothing

The chicken bus barely stopped while crossing over 4a calle oriente; the main artery that becomes the exit to Guatemala City. A …

Quotidian Corner Life

You don’t have to give your soul to the Devil as as Robert Johnson did at the crossroads to enjoy the quotidian …

Dios te ama

Oficina de atención al ciudadano P.N.C. or Citizen desk of Civil National Police (P.N.C. in Spanish acronym) was written in the back …

Remittances from Los Angeles

“Walijoq caewaj!” she yelled over and over in Quiche. Wake up, my love. Wake up, my love. This is the story of …

Antigua’s Tuk Tuk Taxis Revolt

Today I was driving around Antigua Guatemala’s Central Park and I was not allowed to continue towards the Palacio del Ayuntamiento (Municipal …

Tuk Tuk Toy

Believe it or not, the tuk tuk motorcycles which are used as short-run taxis, tourist police patrols units and grocery delivery vehicles …

Theme Day: Feet

Once again AntiguaDailyPhoto.Com will be participating in the Theme Day of the City Daily Photo community, over 500 cities around the globe. …

Breakfast at Doña Luisa

Oh how I wish I could be like Truman Capote and take this avalanche of twits, news, videos about a scandal developing …

Visit The Time Tunnel

In my quest to bring to you ‘new’ vistas of the same ‘old’ places around La Antigua Guatemala, I present to you …

Obama in Antigua Guatemala

Maybe we will get it right this election. —The Brunscheon, Oregon We hope so. —The rest of the world Well, as some …

Guatemalan Indigenous Singers

I find the singing of the indigenous people extremely haunting and touching, even though, they are singing evangelical hymns. To me this singing has another layer of pain and denouncing which is above the meaning of the words they sing; something much older and more mystical than the religious hymn brought by the European Christianity.

Electrified Barb Wire

This shot could be anywhere in the world, except for the fact of the blue in the sky can only be Guatemala; …

Tuk Tuk Meeting

Is it motorcycle or automobile? The meeting of the tuk tuk drivers and the police was to define the tuk tuk as …

Cobblestone Street Worker

Cobblestone streets are yet another characteristic of La Antigua Guatemala’s life-style (see photos 1, 2, 3). They are hard on the automobiles, …

Still in a blue mood

Lately blue has come my way. First time it came as blue house with blue doors and a blue sky. Now, it …

Theme day: Taxis only

The taxi service in La Antigua Guatemala is anything but reliable. Taxi vehicles come in all colors and makes, mostly Toyota and …