Blogs

Molly Molander engages in conversation with a group of attentive children.
  • Some things can’t wait

    Product shortages, Customs snafus, moving-target paperwork by regulatory agencies, frequent road blocks and protests (sometimes against corruption!), fuel shortages, elimination of the postal service, and even a shortage of cash in the banks, all have contributed to delays that leads one to shrug their shoulders in resignation and exclaim, “Fijase!”, a catch all phrase that…

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  • She speaks

    Los Manantiales is a traditional rural Maya Cakchiquel community- poor as the dirt they plant their corn on but as colorful and vibrant as their handwoven clothing. I arrived at the Manantiales grade school at 2p. It was a particularly foggy day. So foggy you could barely see 3 feet in front of you. This…

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