Photo of an original oil painting of Lake Atitlan.

This lidded Early Classic Maya chocolate container (A.D. 400) is made of earthenware. It was photographed in the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California. It is a fine example of Mayan art.

The Church of La Recoleccion was destroyed by a series of earthquakes during the XVIII century, this earthquakes forcing the relocation of the capital city to its present location.

This is the Circus Bar, one of the oldest and most popular bars/restaurants in Panajachel. They have the best pizza in town, and live entertainment nightly. The Circus Bar can be found on Calle Los Arboles.

If you ever wondered how the great Maya architects would design a shopping mall, check this out!

Quetzaltenango or Panajachel. She let me take the photo for a couple of Quetzales. The Maya people are the main population in the highlands of Guatemala.

Carta a los activistas de Creative Commons, escrita por Renata Ávila, líder del proyecto ccGuatemala.

This paper explores how the fair trade coffee market translates consumer action and shopping habits into the promotion of human rights in distant locales. This process does not occur through direct producer–consumer contact. Instead, it is channeled through two interrelated avenues. First, the fair trade certification system which requires producer groups to be democratic, transparent, and accountable and second, the relationships between producers and coffee roasters and importers, who, in this specific commodity chain, act as conduits for consumer actions and intentions. These two facets of the fair trade consumer market promote and protect the secure organizational space that is necessary for producer initiated community development. This freedom to identify and fulfill economic and social development goals through cooperation also reaffirms existing cultural traditions of service and mutual aid among producers. These key components of human rights compliance are critically important in countries such as Guatemala with its history of violent repression, structural inequality, and cultural discrimination against indigenous populations and community organizers. The analysis emerges from ongoing ethnographic research on a group of indigenous, fair trade coffee producers in Guatemala and their relationships with outside buyers and certifiers.

Entrevista al antropólogo Fernando Moscoso en relación a la violencia que en Guatemala hacia 2008 en base a su historia y la memoria de la misma.