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Quotidian Corner Life

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

Quotidian Corner Life by Rudy Girón

You don’t have to give your soul to the Devil as as Robert Johnson did at the crossroads to enjoy the quotidian corner life in La Antigua Guatemala. Just take your guitar, your camera or your sketch pad to capture the lonely and bored municipal transit police selling parking permits, the old man on the way to check on his milpa, the swift scooter driver doing mandados, et cetera. Corners are among my favorite places to take daily snapshots of La Antigua Guatemala since there’s so much going on at the crossroads.

What stories can you create based on the picture above?

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Antigua Guatemala Municipal Traffic Police Trainees

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Antigua Guatemala Municipal Traffic Police Trainees

Aspirante PMT printed in t-shirts means ‘aspirant’ for the Municipal Traffic Police (PMT abbreviation in Spanish). The proper word for traffic, as in vehicles, is transito although tráfico is also used; mostly because people don’t realize that tráfico in Spanish means the action of dealing or trading in something illegal. That’s the word of the day for you.

With new mayor, more police were hired to organize and protect the citizens of La Antigua Guatemala. PMT can also means Policí­a Municipal de Turismo (Municipal Tourist Police); that’s the police with green uniforms. Now there are so many different police entities (national, army, tourist and traffic), yet La Antigua Guatemala is not a safe town yet. ;-) So, please, always be careful while in La Antigua Guatemala; don’t be fool by its tranquil atmosphere.

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