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February 23, 2008. It was a typical Saturday night in San Juan Gascon.  Mum, dad and the kids were at home.  Luis, the eldest brother – a 19-year-old student – had gone out with friends.  At around 11:30, as the family was going to bed, they heard the spine-chilling screech of a vehicle losing… »

Paola is in her mid-thirties and has six children. She is deathly afraid to become pregnant again, but her husband wants more children. She is reluctant to have sex with her husband, and he is looking around for other women. He has threatened to leave Paola and their children if she does not submit, and… »

Byrant Hand, 33, professional educator and entrepreneur, came to Guatemala four years ago and founded the Oxford Language Schools which currently train Spanish speakers in 28 languages ranging from Korean and Mandarin to Portuguese and English. The schools are a successful business, catering largely to adults and corporate clients, but Bryant, who had seen… »

Recently I read a report given to a commission on sustainable development by the leader of a multilateral humanitarian group. The leader considered the “global food crisis” an urgent priority. He announced that he had established a special task force to work with the agricultural sector, and argued that more production was needed to feed… »

She arrived with a backpack full of dreams, a pair of comfortable shoes and a tidal wave of energy, an American volunteer like many others who wanted to make a change in the world and in our country, Guatemala. But this woman had no idea of the legacy she was on the verge of building…. »

Sex. Sex, sex, sex. To say it’s fun is an understatement. Really, if it wasn’t, would you still be sitting on that bench in Parque Central, watching those new hot chicks in town? If sex sucked (in a bad way) would you be spending a Tuesday morning sunrise holding onto your wooden plank of… »