Packing
Packing for this trip wasn’t too difficult. It’s always easier to pack for a trip where you’ll be in one place for a while. Had I been planning to backpack through Guatemala or elsewhere in Central...
View ArticleArrival, part 1
I took the Super Shuttle to Reagan National Airport at about 3:30 in the morning. Since I’d been up late packing, that meant I only slept for an hour or two. That’s OK – I hate flying, so I like to...
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I changed a bit of money* and then headed to the taxis. Guatemala City is divided into 27 zonas, with the airport in Zona 3 and my destination – and most of the stuff worth seeing – in Zona 10. At the...
View ArticleReboot
As should be obvious now, I got a bit behind on blogging while in Guatemala. I was hopeful that this blog would serve as a reminder to myself to write more regularly, as well as a convenient conduit...
View ArticleVolcanoes & Panoramas
This summer I climbed Volcan San Maria, above Xela (Quetzaltenango), Guatemala, on my second day in town. I took a series of photos from the summit looking back towards Xela, and my dad stitched three...
View ArticleThe market at Chichicastenango
Chichicastenango, a highland town in Guatemala, is renowned for its market, which takes place every Thursday and Friday. It’s a mix of touristy fare (lots of fabric, plus some carvings and jade) and...
View ArticleTuskegee in Guatemala
The news that a US government study in the 1940s involved injecting Guatemalans with syphilis has been circulating, and it makes my stomach turn. Susan Reverby — the Wellesley historian who uncovered...
View ArticleGates and Media Funding
You may or may not have heard of this controversy: the Gates Foundation — a huge funding source in global health — has been paying various media sources to ramp up their coverage of global health and...
View Articlefrom Baltimore to Central America via David Simon's imagination
David Simon, creator of The Wire and newly minted MacArthur Fellow, is interviewed by Bill Moyers in Guernica. It’s one of the best things I’ve read in quite a while. David Simon: You talk honestly...
View ArticleHitch on Che
This is old (’97) but worth a read: Christopher Hitchens reviews John Lee Anderson’s biography of Che, along with Guevara’s own Motorcycle Diaries.
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