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Mining Resistance: Lessons from Guatemala and Mexico

February 4, 2015

Advocacy, Guatemala, Mexico, Mining Justice

Barite mine near Nebaj Photo Anna Vogt Tobias Roberts is an MCC service worker in Nebaj, Guatemala Grassroots advocacy work in Central America isn´t usually a job that yields many astounding success sto...

No human being is illegal

December 16, 2014

Advocacy, El Salvador, Guatemala, Migration

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Local Learning Tour about Permaculture

December 10, 2014

Advocacy, El Salvador, Guatemala, Rural Justice

Last November, participants from our partners in San Marcos, Nebaj and El Salvador visited the Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute (IMAP) in San Lucas Toliman, Guatemala, where they learned about the philo...

Exchange participants jump into their assigments!

October 13, 2014

Advocacy, El Salvador, Guatemala

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Drought, food security and migration in Central America

September 17, 2014

Climate Change, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Migration, Nicaragua, Rural Justice

By Elizabeth Scambler, MCC Latin America's Disaster Management Coordinator, based in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Central America is seeing one of the worst droughts in decades. Images in the media are filled with ...

MCC responds to child migrant crisis

September 11, 2014

Advocacy, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Migration, Nicaragua

In Guatemala, MCC is providing comforters, blankets, hygiene kits and funding to a home run by Missionaries of Saint Charles Scalabrinians, which provides temporary shelter to migrants such as Nanci Adair Gali...

Understanding the child migrant surge

August 20, 2014

Advocacy, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Migration

US/Mexico Border. Wikimedia Commons. By Chris Hershberger-Esh, MCC’s Context Analyst for Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Mexico City. Starting in late June, U.S. and international media became...

Oh mother, did you just leave your children?

August 13, 2014

Advocacy, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Migration

By Nancy Sabas, the Connecting Peoples Coordinator for MCC Guatemala/El Salvador, originally from Honduras. Growing up in Honduras, I remember hearing to my mother bring up the idea of migrating to work in the...

Ocos Despierta: a community in the shadow of agribusiness

August 5, 2014

Advocacy, Guatemala, Rural Justice

On the southern coast of Guatemala, BANASA and Grupo HAME have disrupted the lives of campesino Ocos communities in order to grow palm oil and bananas for export. They cut down forests, diverted a major river, ...

ACTION ALERT: Urge Congress and the President to treat migrants from Central American with compassion

July 11, 2014

Action Alerts, Advocacy, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Migration

Please check out this important action alert from MCC Washington if you live in the United States. Children fleeing violence in Central America must be treated humanely. ...

The Food We Share

Lluvia Esperada: Más Allá del Agua, Una Reflexión Sobre Incendios y Esperanza

5-Part Series: International Day of Peace and Nonviolence (part 5)

5-Part Series: International Day of Peace and Nonviolence (part 4)