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Meeting with R1 and T1
6/20/09
Keywords: interview, politics, Santiago, civil war

Today I went to Panajachel in hopes of getting some information about the programa nacional del resarcimiento from some anthropologists Director knows. R1 and T1 are an older couple that own a bookstore and cultural center off the main street in Panajachel, and I ( Read more... )

The Requisites Document
6/17/09
Keywords: civil war, Santiago, politics, documents, the muni
I plan on scanning the requisites document that Maynor gave me at the muni within the next few days, but before that I wanted to take a minute to describe it as it strikes me as particularly interesting. A two-page document divided into 8 sections and titled ‘ ( Read more... )

Quagmire
6/15/09
Journal Note
Keywords: obstacles, interviews, cultural differences, Santiago, civil war, journal
Yesterday was terrible. After I talked to my father and found out about my uncle passing away, I started crying and really didn’t stop until I fell asleep around 2 PM. I was planning on staying in the house and reading that night, and then ( Read more... )

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Here are some of my favorite pictures from the times I was awake during our trip to Antigua this past week, I can´t seem to get an lj-cut to work on the computers here at the internet café unfortunately so there´ll be a good amount of scrolling. Sorry for cluttering up your friends lists!!


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Meeting with J10
6/7/09
Keywords: interviews, civil war, Panajachel, Santiago, Santa Lucia, obstacles

Yesterday I went into Panajachel to speak with J10, a friend of Directora’s who I was very interested to talk to regarding his knowledge about the civil war and the resarcimiento. The lancha from Santiago arrived late, of course, and as I hastily ( Read more... )

This is Eclipse, the dog who lives on our roof. He totally rules, he survived a poisoning attempt last week!


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The Crazy White People in Santiago
5/28/09
Keywords: Santiago, gringos
Over the past few days I have seen a few older white men around town who my host family tells me have lived here since the 1970s. J1 and M4 and I talked to one of them at the market, he originally hails from Nebraska and has lived here in Santiago since 1975 selling avocado trees ( Read more... )