Guatemala: An Intercultural Perspective

In July 2001, a group of 14 bilingual/ESL educators from Illinois traveled to Guatemala as participants in a Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Aborad Program. The main purpose of the trip was to enhance the quality and quantity of intercultural education in K-12 schools, using Guatemala as a case study. The group, 12 bilingual/ESL teachers and the authors of this article, spent five weeks in Guatemala studying and working in bilingual schools in the Guatemalan highlands

Public Report of Review of Office of Trade and Labor Affairs U.S. submission 2008-01 (Guatemala)

The document reports on allegations that the Government of Guatemala has violated articles of the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement Labor Chapter. It outlines 5 separate cases in which Guatemala allegedly failed to effectively enforce its domestic labor laws with regard to freedom of association, the right to organize and bargain collectively, and acceptable conditions of work. Recommendations are offered to the Government of Guatemala to resolve the issues outlined

Effects of schooling levels on economic growth: time-series evidence from Guatemala

This paper examines the determinants of economic growth in Guatemala, with a particular focus on the schooling level. Results based on an error-correction methodology show a better educated labour force has a positive and significant impact on economic growth. Consistent with micro evidence for Guatemala, primary education is more important than secondary and tertiary education. These findings are robust while changing the conditioning variables, controlling for data issues and endogeneity. Due to social and political conflict, the average per capita growth rate in Guatemala has been low.Economic growth, education, error-correction model, Guatemala

Notes on Guatemalan Plusiotis (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae; Rutelinae)

Dos especies nuevas de escarabajos del genero Plusiotis se describen de un bosque nuboso, 1560-1900 m en el departamento de San Marcos, Guatemala. Tambien se describen las hembras de P. turhheimi Ohaus, P. auropunctata Ohaus y P. quiche Moron. Ademas, se registra pOI' primera vez a P. turhheimi para Guatemala.Two new species of Plusiotis are described from a cloud forest between 1560-1900 m in the Department of San Marcos, Guatemala. Females of P. turhheimi Ohaus, P. auropunctata Ohaus and P. quiche Moron are described. Plusiotis turhheimi is reported from Guatemala for the first time

Three new species of Paragnorimus Becker from Central America (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Trichiini) with a redefinition of the genus

Three new species of Paragnorimus Becker are described: Paragnorimus atratus n. sp. from Guatemala, P. hondurensis n. sp. from Honduras and Nicaragua, and P. howdeni n. sp. from Guatemala. Based on the overlapping characters of these new species, the genus Peltotrichius Howden is placed in synonymy with Paragnorimus. Paragnorimus is given a broader definition to encompass the new species and the two species formerly placed in the genus Peltotrichius

Guatemala Holiday

Roll 6. Lodger's Picnic. Image 14 of 21. (18 May, 1952) [PHO 1.6.13]The Boleslaus Lukaszewski (Father Luke) Photographs contain more than 28,000 images of Saint Louis University people, activities, and events between 1951 and 1970. The photographs were taken by Boleslaus Lukaszewski (Father Luke), a Jesuit priest and member of the University's Philosophy Department faculty

Building Hope in Guatemala

Thirty Linfield students and McMinnville residents join forces to build homes in Guatemala

The sustainability of sugarcane-ethanol systems in Guatemala: land, labour and law

Since 2010, Guatemala has been exporting ethanol, principally to European markets. This means that Guatemalan biofuel has been certified sustainable, although this is deeply contested with NGO reports drawing attention to the negative impacts of ‘agrofuels’, particularly for marginalised communities. Guatemala therefore provides an excellent case study for examining not only the impacts of increased global demand for biofuels, but also whether sustainability, as conceptualised by the European Union’s Renewable Energy Directive, can capture those issues that are salient to the Guatemalan context. Drawing on more than eighty qualitative, in-depth interviews, this paper finds that the bloc’s governance framework for biofuels fails to capture many of the issues that matter most to local people in Guatemala, namely land access, trade unions and compliance with the law. This paper argues that the current framework therefore runs the risk of exacerbating the plight of Guatemala’s already marginalised rural communities

Summary Report: Third Party Complaint Regarding Cimatextiles, Guatemala

Concluding report on alleged freedom of association violation at a textiles factory in Guatemala