A message to my fellow gringos…
Charissa Zehr, an MCC service worker in Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras, shares her thoughts on a book written over 20 years ago, and wonders if anything has changed for the rural people of Honduras since then. "...
Reverence for the Sacred Land: Part 2 – A Third Option?
This is the second part of Tobias Roberts' article about responses to urban violence in Central America. Tobias is an MCC Service worker in Nebaj, Guatemala. The full article was originally published in http:/...
Reverence for the Sacred Land: Part 1 – Inadequate responses to endemic violence in Central America
In Part 1 of this post, MCCer Tobias Roberts, in Nebaj, Guatemala, explores his contrasting experiences with urban life in Central America, and the inadequacies of the dominant responses to daily violence. In P...
Blessed are those who mourn: Thoughts from Honduras
Charissa Zehr, an MCC worker in Santa Rosa, Honduras, contemplates violence, mourning, and faith in this post from her blog on January 27, 2012 http://findinglempira.blogspot.com
Blessed are those who mourn,...
PAZ in contexts of violence
Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, location of the MCC Retreat January 2012
Adriana Koehn is the Connecting Peoples Program Coordinator in MCC Guatemala. This article was posted on January 24 on their program website ...
Guatemala: How can the cycles of violence be broken?
“It was like having to chose between cancer and AIDS.”
This is the phrase I heard frequently during a recent trip when talking with Guatemalans about the impossible choice that voters had in the elections in N...
Home Part 2: Constructing “home” in Haiti
Half a million internally displaced Haitians still live in camps two years after the earthquake. Photo by A. Wiebe
January 12, 2012 was the second anniversary of the earthquake in Hait...
From Displacement Camps to Community in Haiti – Part 1 Policy Solutions
Haitians actively claim the right to housing. Photo by Ben Depp
January 12, 2012 will be the second anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti. In this post, Alexis Erkert and Beverly Bell of Other Worlds, descri...
Two Blogs and One Book
Here is some advocacy-related news from around MCC Latin America: community-based engagement in Colombia, community-corporation negotiations in Guatemala, and research for peace-building in Bolivia.
Colombia
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Migration Checkpoint
Miriam Harder has recently begun an MCC service assignment working in conservation agriculture in Chiapas, Mexico, and in Central America. In this blog, she recounts an encounter with the realities of immigrati...