This is the grave of Richard Patterson. I don't know very much about Richard Patterson. I hadn't even heard of him when I visited this cemetery. But I am also up for a chatty grave. And when I see a listing of ambassadorships that include...
Guatemala
This is the grave of John Peurifoy. Born in 1907 in Waterboro, South Carolina, Peurifoy grew up fairly well off and got himself an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy..
I've been linking to archeological discoveries because everything is horrible so at least there's something to latch onto that is fun. Like this: A team of researchers affiliated with multiple.
The kind of immigration policy theater Kamala Harris engaged in on her trip to Guatemala was pretty disgusting. The American VP going to Guatemala and telling Guatemalans to stay out of the United States serves nothing but a domestic audience in the U.S. so that...
Good Nation piece on the how the U.S. increasingly gets the governments of Mexico and Central America to do its dirty deeds of keeping migrants out of the country for.
This is completely bonkers: Early next week, according to a D.H.S. official, the Trump Administration is expected to announce a major immigration deal, known as a safe-third-country agreement, with Guatemala..
Given what the U.S. has done to nations such as Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, which has very much contributed to the large-scale migration we are seeing today, the only morally correct position is to have completely open borders to people from these nations, not...
The United States government murdered Jacqueline Caal, the Guatemalan girl who died in CBP custody. Even before the Trump administration, the U.S. routinely used its border as a method for.
Efraín Ríos Montt, one of the worst human beings to ever live, is dead. Born in 1926 in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, Ríos Montt enrolled at the Military Academy of Guatemala in.
Canadian natural resource companies are among the world's least socially responsible. Whether in mining, timber, or oil, they ravage the environment and intimidate or even kill local people standing in their way. A lot of their operations are in Latin America, where they work with...
One of the things that drives me most crazy about the self-congratulatory rhetoric promoters of trade deals routinely use is that free trade is awesome because of the Asian economies.
This Francisco Goldman article in The New Yorker is a good run-down of what is going on in Guatemala. Citizens finally came together to stand up to the kleptocracy that.