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Scenes From The Upcoming Film “Polvo”

There’s never a dull moment in La Antigua Guatemala. Let me explain. The other day as I am driving back home, I …

Mayan Stela Replicas in Antigua Guatemala

I don’t know if it was a trend at one point or another in La Antigua Guatemala, but I have found several …

Festival Foto>30 2010 Opens in Antigua Guatemala

Guatemala’s largest photo festival Foto▸30 was inaugurated tonight in La Antigua Guatemala with two photo exhibits: Tribu and Que los muertos hablan. …

Immigration Inception

What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea. Resilient… highly contagious. Once an idea has taken …

Remittances Architecture

Immigrants remittances are shaping the landscape of Mesoamerica with houses and constructions built upon the dreams and hard work of people in …

Arquitectura de Remesas Exhibit

Not too long ago I visited the exhibit Arquitectura de Remesas, an anthropological, architectonic and photographic study of how immigrants remittances are …

Thought Provoking Art at Casa Santo Domingo

As you walk around Casa Santo Domingo, you find antique and contemporary artworks one after the other without disrupting harmony and a …

Art at Casa Santo Domingo

Hotel + Museo Casa Santo Domingo takes very seriously the museo, museum, part of its name. Not only there are several museums …

Benefit Photo Exhibit for Agatha’s Victims

I am a lucky guy! I am so lucky to have among my friends and acquaintances movers and shakers of the Guatemalan …

Guatemalan Culture and History Through Textiles

The Maya were among the most prominent story tellers. The Maya ‘wrote’ just about everything. I am sure that if the ancient Maya scribblers had access to Twitter and Facebook, they would have had busy timelimes; heck they would have used aggregators to fill their lifestream with every imaginable media.