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January 2012, Page 2

Every day we die a little

I never realized how much people die every day until I lived in a town where almost each death is announced by …

San Francisco El Grande Niche

This niche and statue of San Francisco (Saint Francis) can be found at the entrance of the façade looking north of Iglesia …

We’re Women of Maize

As I said before, it is impossible to think of the Guatemalan, Mexican and Mesoamerican diet without maize. From the Popul Vuh …

Callejón Los Garcías

The callejones (alleys) found in many of the villages of La Antigua Guatemala are really narrow, passageways really created, I imagine, as …

No carpooling here…

… at least not for these campesinos who every day take their horses up to the rolling hills of Volcán de Agua …