Many residents heard the volcano awaken before it violently erupted; its column of lava and ash was seen for miles as it lit ...
Guatemala is vulnerable to the effects of climate change which is forcing its indigenous people further into poverty.
"They’ve been told by coyotes and different people that you can just ... human traffickers" and that half of Guatemala still lives in extreme poverty with little education.
Still recovering from a deadly, decades-long civil war that ended in 1996, over half of the population lives below the poverty line – and ... root causes of this crisis within Guatemala. With the help ...
Guatemala is failing to prevent and address ... Click to expand Image Underreporting of sexual violence, poor data management, and a lack of coordination between government institutions has ...
In Guatemala, they are amongst the most vulnerable people because they are constantly displaced from their ancestral lands. Data from recent years show that the poverty rate among indigenous ...
Her experience was not rare; rather, it was and is the reality for thousands of people in Guatemala—and beyond. It is a story quite universal in places of extreme poverty or among Indigenous ...