The Mayan civilization flourished in Guatemala and surrounding regions during the first millennium A.D. After almost three centuries as a Spanish colony, Guatemala won its independence in 1821. During the second half of the 20th century, it experienced a variety of military and civilian governments, as well as a 36-year guerrilla war. In 1996, the government signed a peace agreement formally ending the conflict, which had left more than 100,000 people dead and had created, by some estimates, some 1 million refugees.
From the CIA World Fact Book.
| These are the most recent diaries filed under this tag: |
|---|
|
Last week I had one of the most rewarding and yet most difficult experiences of my storytelling journey. I was asked to have a conversation/presentation with a group of male asylum seekers in their teens. They had crossed the border unaccompanied and...
by The Boss Gomez
 11 comments
on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 10:21 AM PDT
with 24 Recommends
|
|
Often lost in the accounts of the accomplishments of the Biden-Harris administration, when they are even noted by the MSM, is the influence of VP Kamala Harris on the administration’s policies. ...
by lpeacock
52 comments
on Tue Apr 02, 2024 at 05:00 AM PDT
with 64 Recommends
|
|
Ever since he sullenly departed from the White House in January 2021, a portion of Donald Trump’s supporters have maintained that he is actually still in charge of the “real” government and ...
by Mark Sumner
136 comments
on Thu Mar 28, 2024 at 02:10 PM PDT
with 416 Recommends
|
|
Yesterday at the The Moth in Chicago the theme was Chemistry. I got the highest score of the night. After the The Moth slam my buddy and great storyteller James Gordon told me that he wanted to hear what my story was about, so am going to share a...
by The Boss Gomez
81 comments
on Wed Feb 21, 2024 at 08:46 AM PST
with 139 Recommends
|
|
Former President Donald Trump used language right from Hitler’s playbook�when he claimed that immigrants coming to the U.S. are “poisoning the blood of our country.” �What’s particularly ...
by Charles Jay
51 comments
on Wed Feb 14, 2024 at 09:55 AM PST
with 132 Recommends
|
|
Update: new president Bernardo Arévalo indicates that the inauguration is proceeding now as it should. Note, I continue to link to Twitter because rapid distribution of information about late-breaking events was precisely what made Twitter so valuable...
by CupaJoe
131 comments
on Sun Jan 14, 2024 at 02:39 PM PST
with 319 Recommends
|
|
Isn’t that the craziest thing you have ever read? (Don’t answer that question — conservative media serves up a lot of crazy every day.) The source of this such nonsense is the Wall Street Journal on Monday, January 8th. Is AMLO Blackmailing Biden? The...
by Alex Morales
11 comments
on Thu Jan 11, 2024 at 02:02 PM PST
with 18 Recommends
|
|
Yes, I said re-gifting, not grifting. (Grifting is the senator’s Standard Operating Procedure.) Rubio has latched on to a ‘gift’ from Sen. Richard Durbin’s CODEL to Guatemala with the ...
by Alex Morales
5 comments
on Wed Dec 13, 2023 at 07:03 AM PST
with 12 Recommends
|
|
In August, Bernando Arévalo was elected the next president of Guatemala, in what international observers have called a ‘landslide’. That is the only stable statement that can be made about the ...
by Alex Morales
8 comments
on Sat Oct 14, 2023 at 03:31 PM PDT
with 16 Recommends
|
|
I’m so excited, as a child I used to take refugee on writing due to a speech impediment , I stuttered. Then, at age 15 I emigrated with my family undocumented to the United States and found myself not only unable to speak my native language Spanish,...
by The Boss Gomez
16 comments
on Thu Aug 31, 2023 at 05:57 AM PDT
with 21 Recommends
|
|
From Rigoberta Menchu, Father Rother, the Hennessey Sisters and countless others I’ve come to expect stories about mind numbing courage in the face of insurmountable odds from Guatemala. But — a real chance for good governance — not so much. Okay,...
by AnotherOklahoman
12 comments
on Tue Aug 22, 2023 at 08:06 AM PDT
with 24 Recommends
|
|
For those of you who have been following the events in Guatemalan politics, you may have seen the reporting in the English-speaking press that César Bernardo Arévalo de León has, for all appearances sake, won the run-off on August 20th for Guatemalan...
by Alex Morales
9 comments
on Mon Aug 21, 2023 at 07:06 PM PDT
with 65 Recommends
|
|
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and �...
by side pocket
47 comments
on Sun Aug 20, 2023 at 08:59 PM PDT
with 40 Recommends
|
|
“What do you want for your birthday”? my wife sweet Mel Melissa Pavlik asked as my 49 birthday was getting close. There was one birthday wish that I wanted to fulfil. For many years around my birthday, my Facebook and Instagram accounts get inundated...
by The Boss Gomez
21 comments
on Thu Aug 17, 2023 at 12:30 PM PDT
with 21 Recommends
|
|
Movimiento Semilla is out. Their candidate for President,�Bernardo Arévalo, is not eligible to compete in the August 20th run-off election. And the corruption continues…. Hours later, are they ...
by Alex Morales
4 comments
on Thu Jul 13, 2023 at 09:03 PM PDT
with 21 Recommends
|
|
The leading vote getter in the first round is among the candidates and political parties challenging the results of the June 25th Presidential election in Guatemala. Sandra Torres, along with eight ...
by Alex Morales
6 comments
on Wed Jul 05, 2023 at 06:03 PM PDT
with 12 Recommends
|
|
As the results have come in from Sunday’s presidential election in Guatemala, it is clear that apathy is the overall winner. According to the Tribunal Supremo Electoral (TSE), absenteeism reached ...
by Alex Morales
6 comments
on Tue Jun 27, 2023 at 10:04 AM PDT
with 22 Recommends
|
|
On Sunday (25 June), Guatemalans will elect a new president to succeed President Alejandro Giammattei, completing another campaign riddled with controversy.
What is happening on Sunday
Close to ...
by Alex Morales
4 comments
on Thu Jun 22, 2023 at 09:02 AM PDT
with 3 Recommends
|
|
The U.S. Supreme Court made history this week by using the proper pronouns for a transgender woman who fled Guatemala after being assaulted and persecuted on the basis of her gender identity and sexual orientation. She/her pronouns were used—and the...
by Charles Jay
120 comments
on Fri May 12, 2023 at 02:40 PM PDT
with 357 Recommends
|
|
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and ...
by annetteboardman
10 comments
on Fri May 05, 2023 at 09:21 PM PDT
with 25 Recommends
|
Recommended
- I just found out that some of our oldest (longest term) and dearest Kossacks have recently been laid off or resigned. Apparently It came up in the comments in the diary about the Second DK Site Maintenance with the recent update. I had no idea. I...389 comments 927 Recs
- In a move designed to thwart the efforts of anti-choice extremists in states who have banned abortion from accessing medical records of patients who travel out of state for reproductive healthcare, the Biden Administration has updated HIPAA rules to...43 comments 131 Recs
- Well, another primary date has come and passed. This time, it was Pennsylvania deciding who to vote for in the primary election. The outcomes were of course foreordained, with Trump and Biden having already wrapped up the nominations for President....45 comments 156 Recs
- It doesn’t matter that the Republicans are having their convention in Milwaukee come July 15 — 18. Or that Mr. Walking Dead owns their nomination based on delegate count and winning primaries. Plain fact, here, is that Trump has been dead since April...43 comments 61 Recs
- “The Best Idea We Ever Had...” Happy National Park Week. Yellowstone was #1 in 1872 (Thank you, U.S. Grant), and we've been adding 'em ever since. And you know what else we've added? Our first Native American Secretary of the Interior, who’s logging...100 comments 147 Recs
- The 2024 presidential election has been fraught with concern about the age of the candidates and whether that would impact their ability to endure the unique burdens of the job. President Biden has demonstrated his competence by presiding over one of...201 comments 259 Recs
- In 1927, two US Army Air Corps Majors, Henry "Hap" Arnold and Carl Spaatz, founded an airline to fly passengers and mail between Key West and Havana. The company they ambitiously called Pan American Airways lived up to its name and more. Pan Am became...170 comments 192 Recs
- Good Wednesday Morning! As always on my Wednesday morning round up I suggest you grab your favorite beverage and settle in to read a few tidbits and enjoy the comment section, full of more good news than I can bring along. Folks, the rest of this year...56 comments 127 Recs
- Russian forces conducted a limited series of missile and drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of April 22 to 23.39 comments 136 Recs
- From the Hill tonight, 3 Democratic Senators ended up voting against the aid package since it was linked to funding Israel's Gaza war: Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) voted against the package. Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) helped advance...166 comments 248 Recs
- And one I have experienced myself, personally. In fact, it forced my early retirement because I couldn’t stay awake at meetings. Trump has been observed to nod off during his Manhattan trial. Some have suggested that he may be deprived of drugs that he...207 comments 321 Recs
- So the other day, wrote a post that some one made a comment that was an agreement. But than insulted my grammar, and call my post a word salad. Now am new to this site, is this normal for this site. I have dyslexic problems. I wrote as little as...29 comments 28 Recs
Recent Diaries
- John just sent me some pics from Anabel’s birthday party on Sunday and I thought y’all might like to see. Anabel is a little girl in Ghana. Her mother abandoned her when she was three years old. Some homeless kids found her and brought her to John, who...1 comments 1 Recs
- For the full story, visit Generation180’s blog post here. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) launched the Renew America’s Schools Program in 2022, a grant program created in the Bipartisan Infrastructure law that will distribute $500 million over five...1 comments 0 Recs
- Some people actually have escaped the Trump MAGA bubble. �Not many. �But some. Here’s one example: x ...4 comments 7 Recs
- First of all, congratulations to Summer Lee for her victory last night. We had volunteers from Hope Springs from Field PAC [website] on both sides of that primary, and while i certainly do not agree with some of her positions, i DO BELIEVE in...4 comments 4 Recs
- Exercise can bring on hypoglycemia in T1D patients. I guess that means I should do more of it—not to the point of hypoglycemia, but whenever my blood glucose drifts upward, but not by enough to ...1 comments 0 Recs
- Trains, at one time in this country, were the premier way to travel. But, unfortunately, that is no longer the case. The name and number trains of yesteryear have been somewhat supplanted by automobiles that go by model name and number. That’s really...5 comments 4 Recs
- New York City School Chancellor David Banks has agreed to testify on May 8 before the House of Representative’s Committee on Education and the Workforce on the school system’s response to incidents of antisemitism and attacks on the Islamic community....1 comments 5 Recs
- West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump attorney Todd Blanche had a disastrous show cause hearing with Judge...1 comments 1 Recs
- So the other day, wrote a post that some one made a comment that was an agreement. But than insulted my grammar, and call my post a word salad. Now am new to this site, is this normal for this site. I have dyslexic problems. I wrote as little as...29 comments 28 Recs
- Good morning, Newdists!� Grab a cuppa and something tasty while we whimsy our way into Wednesday!212 comments 24 Recs
- The Federation of Aboriginal Nations of the Americas (FANA) continues to evolve and expand its sphere of influence. On January 22, 2024, I posted an article on Daily Kos announcing that FANA was establishing an office in Japan. The Federation was...4 comments 5 Recs
- The city of Prosser, Washington, named for Civil War veteran Colonel William Farrand Prosser, was incorporated in 1899 with a population of 230 people. Colonel Prosser and his wife Flora claimed a ...3 comments 12 Recs
- [This pieces is running as an op/ed in newspapers in the very red congressional district (VA-06) in which I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in 2012.) ****************************** There was so much good news the week of April 14 that it almost...7 comments 13 Recs
- It doesn’t matter that the Republicans are having their convention in Milwaukee come July 15 — 18. Or that Mr. Walking Dead owns their nomination based on delegate count and winning primaries. Plain fact, here, is that Trump has been dead since April...43 comments 61 Recs
- The Daily Bucket is a nature refuge. We amicably discuss animals, weather, climate, soil, plants, waters and note life’s patterns. We invite you to note what you are ...22 comments 19 Recs
- 7 comments 53 Recs
- So my husband and I are on the all electric Eurostar train traveling from London to Amsterdam. As soon as we entered the Netherlands, we were greeted by massive windmills every few miles along our journey. Many of the ancient houses within sight had...6 comments 11 Recs
- If you are like me, you will need mental health breaks to maintain your sanity this year. For my part, I am starting my day with a great song, working alphabetically by song title (note: this does ...3 comments 7 Recs
- Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. You can find our collection of public data at dailykosdata.com . Please note: The Live Digest is a ...26 comments 3 Recs
- Let me say at the outset, that I am very pleased that the combined legislation from the House bills passed the Senate. The final vote was 79-18. Fifteen Republicans voted with three Democrats against the bill. Forty-eight Democrats and 31 Republicans...19 comments 26 Recs
