| Kate Thornton visited Guatemala to learn about the Mayan civilisation | BBC | 10.14.06 |
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Guatemala is in Central America, just south of Mexico, on a ribbon of land that gives way to South America. It's at least a 12-hour journey but Guatemala is a beautiful country with much to offer. Its main tourist attraction is Tikal, a city deep in the jungle, built three thousand years ago by the Mayans. Five granite temples dominate the site, once built to pay tribute to past rulers and to please Mayan deities. It's the remains of the Mayan culture that really draw people to Guatemala.
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| El Mirador by John Finnega | Hack Writers | 10.14.06 |
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I know not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished line to your lordship….but if your honour seem but pleased, I account myself highly praised: William Shakespeare "Go not gentle into that sweet night, but rage rage against the dimming of the light." No one did it but everyone talked about it or knew a friend of a friend who had done it. This all started about a year ago when I went to Belize and stumbled across my first Mayan ruin near St. Ignacio. I was fascinated by the accomplishments of a civilization which built huge pyramids and had city states ...
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| The price, processing and production challenges of growing coffee profitably & sustainably in Guatemala | The New Farm | 10.14.06 |
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Coffee is the second most valuable globally traded commodity; only the petroleum trade does more business. Furthermore, in a stark distinction from the notoriously concentrated petroleum industry, coffee is produced by more than 20 million farmers worldwide.
In 2001 the price of coffee fell from over $1/lb. on the world market to less than $0.50 because of the increase in supply brought on mainly by Vietnam becoming a major coffee producer and by increases in production in Brazil.
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| Guatemala's re-emergence | MSNBC | 10.14.06 |
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It has been perched in the forested Panchoy Valley for more than 450 years, was one of the Americas' largest cities around the time of the Spanish Armada, and was nearly wiped off the map by an earthquake three years before the U.S. Declaration of Independence was signed. Even its name means "old."
But it's new to the thousands of tourists arriving from every corner of the globe every day..
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| Mayan discovery points to sophisticated society | CNN | 10.14.06 |
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Archaeologist Francisco Estrada-Belli of Vanderbilt University and colleagues have been conducting research excavations at the site, called Cival, since 2000, with support from the National Geographic Society.
They said the city thrived from about 500 B.C. to 100 A.D., when it was apparently sacked by invaders and then abandoned."We were extremely fortunate to have found a completely preserved preclassic city that is not buried by later construction, giving us the rare opportunity to fully explore...
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| U.S. Forgives Multimillion-Dollar Debt to Aid Guatemala Forests | National Geographic | 10.12.06 |
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In a "debt for nature" swap, the United States has agreed to forgive about 20 percent of the 108 million dollars owed by Guatemala. In exchange, the Central American country will invest 24.4 million dollars to protect species-rich subtropical and tropical ecosystems. The recently announced agreement is the largest of ten such deals the U.S. government has undertaken in recent years under the Tropical Forest Conservation Act of 1998.
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| Guatemala Rising | Washington Post | 10.12.06 |
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It was easy to get a table at Frida's last weekend, and one with some elbow room to boot. Gone, temporarily, was the chair-to-chair Friday night crush in one of the most popular restaurants in Guatemala's tourist hub of Antigua. For a change at this cantina, which is dedicated and decorated in honor of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, there's no line at the door, mojitos arrive instantly, and the chatter and clatter levels are well below their usual roar.
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| This is Guatemala | Lifestyle & Arts | 12.10.06 |
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This is Guatemala: At 9 o’clock in the morning, driving a red ’94 Jeep Cherokee, somewhere between Antigua and Guatemala City, Fredy tells us a story. While visiting a family he had been working with some time ago on the southern coast of Guatemala, he asked the mother about one of her sons. He is dead, she said, of some infections. But, Fredy said, there is a farmacia not five blocks away. Why did you not buy medicine for him? Because, she answered, the medicine was more expensive than a casket...
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| Under the Volcanoes | Travel + Leisure | 12.10.06 |
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Yet here we were. We drove to a steep hill town above Antigua called Santa María de Jesús, an almost wholly Mayan community with fields of beans, soy, and corn carpeting the slopes. There was a long voting line near the central plaza, where a busy Sunday market offering a spectacular array of produce, weavings, and all kinds of modern goods was in full swing. Besides men in jeans, the line was full of women in handwoven skirts and blouses. Many carried babies in tzuts, woven papoose sacks worn slung over the shoulder.
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| Coffee: producers should bank on quality from now on | Innovations Report | 12.10.06 |
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Coffee has been the main export crop in Central America for more than a century. It contributes to the revenue of nearly 300 000 producers in the region. However, in 1999 the sector was faced with a major crisis when the coffee markets collapsed as a result of world overproduction. In this region, about 70% of coffee plantations are managed in association with shade trees and varying degrees of intensification. However, the trend over the last 30 years has been to “modernise” Central American coffee production.
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| Lowe exhibit features handmade textiles from Guatemala | Miami Herald | 12.10.06 |
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A new show -- Flowers for the Earth Lord: Guatemalan Textiles from the Lowe Art Museum -- brings new light to one particular chapter of the poignant story of pre-Columbian culture as it continues to play out in the 21st century. These Guatemalan textiles carry color and design deeply connected to the pre-Columbian Maya culture that produced them.
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