After the awe wore off from exploring the Spanish Mudéjar-influenced Baroque architecture and traversing volcanic terrain around resplendent Lake Atitlán, a clearer picture of these destinations emerged.
After the awe wore off from exploring the Spanish Mudéjar-influenced Baroque architecture and traversing volcanic terrain around resplendent Lake Atitlán, a clearer picture of these destinations emerged.
For AOL's Monster Help Day, I volunteered at MADRE sorting donations of eyeglasses, contact lenses and cleaning solutions to be sent to doctors in Nicaragua.
All the ice cream eating was going just fine until I started to feel some uncomfortable rumbling in my stomach. It didn't take long to find the warnings.
During the spring and summer season, Guatemalans welcome tourists into their picturesque cities, like Antigua and Panachajel. They sell their artwork,...
We were struck by how few tourists were in evidence. While selfishly pleased to practically have the place to ourselves, it seemed sad that there weren't more in attendance to appreciate such a massive milestone in mankind's history.
Your volunteering story -- not the story about how you almost killed yourself zip-lining through the jungle or the time when the monkey pooped on your head -- is what your friends will remember.
On March 28, I flew to Guatemala City to meet with Emily Samantha Ruiz as she prepared to return home. Despite being a US citizen, Emily was subjected to de facto deportation on March 11.
In 1991, my 9-year-old daughter Rachel traveled with me to Guatemala where we were struck by the heartbreaking rural poverty and mudslides worsened by widespread deforestation.
Obama is currently being pressed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and corporate interests to advance a free trade agreement with Colombia that he campaigned against when he ran for president.
As the uprising in Egypt continues, it's hard for most of us to comprehend the desperation of being denied even basic rights. Despite external differences, deep down we are all the same.
When Ok Chin was a child, her mother brought her to an orphanage. The family was poor, and her mother heard that the girl would get fed and clothed. What happened next was unexpected.
It has been said that one man's trash is another man's treasure. That's exactly what the nonprofit organization Long Way Home is proving with a project to build a school made out of garbage.
The government has provided prosecutors with a document outlining the military's role in one massacre of civilians. But can the Guatemalan courts end the climate of impunity in the country?
There is no democracy, unless there is dissent and that dissent can be overtly expressed. It obfuscates one's mind to see how heads of states, democra...
Competing in the BBC World Challenge with other projects in Denmark, Tanzania, Peru, Kenya, Zambia, India, the Philippines, Rwanda, and Malawi, I am supporting Long Way Home.
The timely apologies issued at the highest levels of the U.S. Government are welcomed. Now they should be backed up with action across the Southern hemisphere to control or in some cases eliminate the region's neglected tropical diseases.
To see Claudia Bernardi's gorgeous images is to be seduced by their jeweled colors of raw pigment. But a closer look reveals skeletal remains, fragments of the silenced, drawn with indelible tenderness.
Even people who share the social values of the Christian conservatives who come here to start businesses and pay taxes, are not welcome.
I couldn't find a balance between working hard and enjoying a social life and decided it was time for a change. My time in Guatemala and Cambodia gave me a learning experience that I never could've imagined getting at college.
Arbitrary partitions and local militias will not salvage the war for the United States and NATO. The only way out is to cut a deal with the people we are fighting.
Moves to bring the U.S. Navy to Costa Rica have sparked widespread suspicions that Washington is looking for a justification to remilitarize the Central American region.