September 2011
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Tips de mis Viajes y Salidas: Tikal, Pirámides... →
Luego de mi enésimo viaje a Guatemala, un amigo chileno me convenció de que fuésemos a conocer las pirámides mayas. No es que nunca me hayan llamado la atención, pero tengo una estructura mental que me impide ponerme en modo turismo cuando hago viajes de negocio. Qué arrepentido estoy de no haberlo hecho antes.
Luego de 6 años yendo a ese lindo país, a una razón promedio de 5 viajes por año,...
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Spanish they didn't teach you in class. →
A random list of random bits of Spanish knowledge I’ve acquired in my time here. Some are strickly Guatemalan, or Chapinismos. Inappropriate Chapinismos aren’t included. ;)
“No hay nada” - Double negatives for the win. Literally translated means “There isn’t nothing.” Really means “There isn’t any.”
“Fijate que” - A starter phrase. Basically like “It seems that…” Literally fijar translates as...
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Archaeological News: Maya Royal Tombs Found With... →
A woman ruler’s skeleton—her head mysteriously placed between two bowls—is one of two royal burials recently found at the Maya ruins of Nakum in Guatemala.
The roughly 2,000-year-old tomb was found underneath another, 1,300-year-old tomb filled with treasures such as jade gorgets—normally used to protect the throat—beads, and ceremonial knives.
The upper tomb’s corpse had been...
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Hey! Today is... Bottle School →
Something we think it’s garbage, while they think it’s treasure.
A school built by the plastic bottle in Guatemala. Kids collects bottle and build it with their own hand.
They build the school with sth you and I think that is useless and impossible. Which is easily found in trash — plastic bottle and chicken wire, with the concrete as a pedestal to uphold.
A school costs less than...
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Lyss C Guatemala: Guatemala City - Three... →
The largest quake, with a 5.8 magnitude, hit at 12:34 p.m., with two of 4.8 magnitude hitting before and after. All were centered in the same area about 30 miles southeast of the capital, Guatemala City.
Firefighters confirmed that the temblors, which shook most of the country, caused a landslide on the highway to El Salvador near the epicenter of Cuilapa Santa Rosa that trapped at least one car...
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mierdadevida asked: Que buen tumblr que tenes, me gusta como mostras lo bueno pero de igual manera lo malo de el pais, lamentablemente lo ultimo es lo que abunda en esta realidad un tanto podrida en la que vivimos. En fin, muy buen blog, saludos.
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Racial Resentment Sucks →
You know, sometimes racial shit can harm one. Even if you fight racism, people is always going to see you like “that fucking white kid”. Yeah, I’m talking about racism in Guatemala. Last day, a girl wrote about her true right of being guatemalan. I won’t fight that, indigenous people got here before. But it sucked when, well, she told me Guate was not my “homeland”. She told me she was not going...
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Putnam's Landing: Political Corruption in... →
putnams-landing:
For those of you living in Guatemala, who see the signs everywhere on the streets, do you ever stop to wonder “Where does all that money come from?”
With the fourth highest rate of child malnutrition in the world… who can afford to spend $50 million on campaigns? Hmmmmm…
Drug money has also…
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joannaengagingart: Guatemala →
My mom and I wanted to take a special trip this year. She was retiring this fall, and I was celebrating a significant birthday. After pondering different options, we settled on Guatemala. Neither of us had been there before, and people kept telling us that it was a beautiful country.
In order to prepare our itinerary (I am known an obsessive trip planner), I interviewed people who had lived or...
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Kala: En Guatemala hasta los muertos votan →
Es muy común en nuestro país escuchar este dicho, al parecer puede que sea cierto. Un día después que el TSE anunciara que ya había actualizado a las personas que votarían en estas elecciones y a los fallecidos, llegó a mi casa en Antigua Guatemala la tarjeta de mi padre donde le informaban en donde y en que mesa le tocaría votar. Mi papá murió en 1998. Junto con esta tarjeta ...
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The Paranormal Post: Mutant pig with human-like... →
From Epoch Times:
In the remote Guatemalan village of Santa Cruz El Chol near La Cienaga, a black piglet has been born with an odd-shaped head that bears seemingly human characteristics. The pig is one of a litter of 11 belonging to the Cordova family. Local residents are mostly…
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Shocking new details of US STD experiments in... →
Fresh revelations about 1940s medical tests come to light, including deliberately exposing people to sexually transmitted diseases
Shocking new details of US medical experiments done in Guatemala in the 1940s, including a decision to re-infect a dying woman in a syphilis study, have been disclosed by a presidential panel.
The Guatemala experiments are already considered one of the darker...
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