Weekly News Roundup, Sept 18
Former market square in Dipurdu, a riverside community in Colombia's Choco. Photo: Anna Vogt
Latin American countries welcome Syrian refugees
Latin American countries are opening their doors to Syrians fleeing...
Refugee Peacemakers
Omar and I welcoming the students to the Mennonite Church. Photo by Aziz Abdul.
David Sulewski, together with his wife Tibrine da Fonesca, works with MCC in Quito, Ecuador, coordinating the Refugee Project, a ...
Weekly News Roundup, September 4
People-power and the 'Guatemalan Spring'
The group connected on social networks and were so incensed by the brazen corruption that they promoted a get-together with the hashtag #renunciaya, hoping a few hundre...
Weekly News Round-Up, August 28
Rural Guatemala Photo: Anna Vogt
In Depth: Central America Rising
teleSUR examines the crises and opportunities in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, and offers criticial analysis of the growing protest mo...
Gender Inequality and the Journey of Migrant Women
Young people performing a drama during the service week activity.
Nancy Sabas, is the Connecting Peoples Coordinator for MCC Guatemala/El Salvador. She is originally from Honduras.
Each year, the Connect...
Weekly News Roundup, August 21
Cattle drive in Sonora, Mexico. Photo: Anna Vogt
Wonder women and macho men
Women are still scarce in Latin American boardrooms. Not in politics, however. A quarter of legislators in the region are women, comp...
ELECTIONS: AN OCCASION FOR PRAYER FOR HAITI
Katharine Oswald, together with her husband Ted Oswald, works with MCC Haiti as the Policy Analyst & Advocacy Coordinator. This post was originally published on Ted and Katharine’s personal blog.
This a...
Jello for Breakfast, Rice the Rest of the Time
Lettuce, but no rice!
Anna Vogt is the MCC LACA Advocacy and Policy Analyst. This post was originally published on Anna's personal blog.
Every lunch and dinner at the conference last month included a g...
Weekly News Round-Up, August 14
"To be a young person is not a crime." Guatemala Photo: Anna Vogt
Four Ways Mexico’s Indigenous Farmers Are Practicing the Agriculture of the Future
The use of erosion control barriers, intercropping, and seed...