L@s Otr@s Dreamers
By Adrienne Wiebe, MCC Latin America
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The “Dreamers” are young people who were brought to the United States by their parents as children and have grown-up in the US. There are an estimated...
Colombian Anti-narcotics Police destroy crops in church-MCC Project
One of the Choco farmers with a rice crop damaged by aerial fumigation
By Rebekah Sears and Adrienne Wiebe, MCC Latin America
Anti-narcotics police in Colombia have fumigated and destroyed rice and cacao...
The Advocacy of Faith: Learning in Colombia
A worship service in a church in Mampujan, Colombia
By Anna Vogt, MCC Colombia
Advocacy is the focus of the month! What is it, how does it work and who does it are all questions that we Seeders are wrest...
Doing Good
By Marisa Clymer Shank, MCC Nicaragua
I’ve read several articles this past week on “missions” and “development work”. Each one has made me think about how I define what I’m doing in Nicaragua and how others mi...
Ríos Montt – One Night in Prison
By Adrienne Wiebe, MCC Latin America Policy Analyst/Educator
Former Guatemalan Dictator, Ex-General Ríos Montt was sentenced to 80 years in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity on May 10, 2013.
How...
URGENT: Government Repression of the Mayan Ixil People of Nebaj, Guatemala
May 2, 2013 - Tobias Roberts, an MCC service worker in Nebaj, is accompanying this community in this tense situation. The community is asking for international attention to ensure that the situation is resolve...
Who owns the Wind?
By Adrienne Wiebe, MCC Latin America
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I was confused. - Isn’t wind energy a GOOD thing?!
An indigenous leader was passionately denouncing the the wind farms in his community. We were in a...
March for Rural Justice in Colombia
By Larisa Zehr, MCC Colombia
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Note: The march halted on Sunday, April 7 after negotiations with government authorities. For an update on what happened see Anna Vogt's blog http://thellamad...
Undermining
Photos by Larisa Zehr, Macayepo , Colombia
By Larisa Zehr, MCC Colombia
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One Sunday morning in Bogota, we headed for one of the city’s best markets, Paloquemao. We sipped hot café ...
“A Humble Pope” – Latin Americans Celebrate
The selection of a Cardinal from Argentina as the new Pope has filled the news here in Latin America. In this post, MCCer Kevin Zonnefeld describes the reactions in Nicaragua, where he and his wife Cassie are w...