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Letter From the Editors – September / October 2011

At times we do believe that there is, in fact, a collective unconscious  at work in the deep background of the universe. Sometimes the world itself has a mood, a feeling, a thought process, a mania, a madness. There may even be practitioners of the esoteric arts who have developed a sensitivity to this cosmic emotion, but they likely either live high in the Himalayas as prayer-flag waving navel gazers, or are sequestered beneath the Arctic ice in lairs appropriate for super-villainy. Either way, they’ll not likely drop by Café No Sé at anytime soon for a chat, so we’ll just have to go with our guts on this one.

We can’t be sure, but it seems that things around the world are getting weird. Have you felt it? Have you woken up in any of the recent days wondering if all hell is about to break loose in your little corner of the sphere? We have. And for the past few months, we’ve mentioned it to one another over a bottle of mezcal. But it… »

Around Antigua – Coming To Terms

A number of attacks in Antigua on the night of August 18 sparked a CNN iReport post entitled “Bloodbath in Antigua,” a stern warning from the US Embassy, and the spreading of alarming rumors on origins of the violence and its possible connection to narcotraffickers, gang violence, political… »

Terrible But True – A Visit From Mom and Dad

In a night of passion and wild abandon that doesn’t bear thinking about, something happened. Biology, romance and, quite possibly, liquor worked together to create something incredible; at the moment of fertilization, two people irreversibly cross over onto an altogether different plane of perspective and understanding. They cease… »

Featured Artist – Brielle DuFlon

I ’d met Brielle DuFlon a few times before sitting down to interview her for La Cuadra. I didn’t know much about her, and some of what I’d assumed was far off base. As she is a tall, blond, English speaking Caucasian, I figured she was from the… »

Featured Story – September 11, 2011

Earlier this spring news reached out from a mountain city in Pakistan to my small apartment in Guatemala, as it did all over the world, that Osama bin Laden was dead. I was alone as the message first appeared on the Facebook page I let idle in the… »

From The Recesses – Middle Men

Some 15 years ago, my parents took a trip to the old familial sod in Ireland. They were traveling with my father’s cousin Barbara and her husband Joe. For as near as we can tell, it was the first time a Tallon from our clutch had returned across… »

Featured Story – CICIG and the Parallel Powers

On May 10 2009 a prominent Guatemalan attorney, Rodrigo Rosenberg, was gunned down in broad daylight while riding his bicycle down a busy, tree-lined boulevard in a wealthy residential district of Guatemala City. But this wasn’t just another killing in a homicide-plagued country. On May 11, 2009 Guatemalan… »

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