BROWNSVILLE, Texas — A Guatemala-born designer combined Indigenous weaving technique, modern clothing design and colorful history from her native country in a recent Texas runway showcase. The display ...
Introduction / by Guillermo Toriello Garrido -- pt. 1. Roots of revolution, from conquest to coup (1524-1954) : ch. I. The colonial legacy : a long present past, 1524-1944 : 1. The Spaniards discover ...
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — In a newly released memoir, local author Christian Nill tells the story of his time in the Peace Corps spent in Guatemala amid a raging civil war. Nill’s memoir Walking with ...
In Guatemala, progressive presidential candidate Bernardo Arévalo has won a landslide victory in a runoff election against former first lady Sandra Torres. Arévalo, a member of the Semilla party, took ...
Kelly Kerney’s describes her first book, “Born Again,” as a sort of trial run. “I always wanted to write about Guatemala, but I didn’t know how to write books,” she says. “I needed to learn that first ...
CHAJUL, Guatemala (Reuters) - In a ramshackle home in Guatemala's rural highlands, farmer and odd job man Lucas Asicona made for an unlikely guardian of ancient Mayan treasures - until he decided to ...
The kitchen in Antigua's Casa Popenoe. Photo Credit: Arnie Weissmann LAKE PETEN ITZA, Guatemala -- Tikal is arguably the finest excavated Mayan city in Central America. Seeing those ruins was my ...

Mayan Maya

At first glance, almost all of Tikal, a Mayan site in Northern Gautamela, is an ancient city buried beneath layers of jungle.