I don’t know if it is ecological consciousness or lack of budget funds, but I am seeing more cops on bicycles around Antigua Guatemala. What’s your take on using bicycles for policing the streets of Antigua Guatemala? Follow the white rabbit to » a few more entries about bicycles in Antigua Guatemala.
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Policía or Police. If you have ever wonder why police cars in Guatemala are actually pick-up trucks, here’s your illustrated answer. What are your thought regarding this image of a truck full of cops?
Police patrol trucks, really? I am sure that’s a normal question asked when people are told that all police patrol units in Guatemala are actually trucks; well most of them for sure. I believe police trucks are used in Mexico and Central America, but I am not sure if they use trucks anywhere else as … Read more
The Guatemalan antiriot police unit provided me with much needed images for my photographic bank. This in particular turned out to work very well in black and white. I might even put back a touch of blue color on the flags and police emblem. What do you think?
Fortunately, La Antigua Guatemala is still mostly a pedestrian town, but it gets its share of vehicular traffic and before it gets completely out of control, the new municipal administration is taking steps to put some order in the streets. On the same topic of vehicles and traffic, pretty soon, perhaps in February, the Municipality … Read more
Central Park and the streets nearby were militarized for about 10 hours, beginning around 5 a.m. because El Señor Presidente of Guatemala decided to have a meeting with the municipality majors of Sacatepéquez (that’s the name of Departamento or State to which La Antigua Guatemala is the capital). As I walked into Central Park I … Read more
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 … Read more
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.