Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo, México
Querido Mundo,
I’m headed off into the unknown and won’t be posting anything or replying to any emails for the next three weeks. Todo me espera. Don’t worry, it will be worth it, I promise good cuentos.
Todo es possible, nada es seguro. Now go and don’t stop going.
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Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo, México
ENDING ONE LEG OF THE JOURNEY, PLANNING THE NEXT THING.
We all get on the bus before the sun gets on the earth. It’s four fifteen A.M. in the dusty Guatemalan city of Santa Elena in El Petén, best known as being the service city to the Tikal tourist trade. The bus [...]

Palenque, Chiapas, México
From the Mexican Solidarity Network:
Family remittances from Mexican immigrants working in the US topped US$20 billion in 2005, according to the Bank of Mexico, an increase of 21% over 2004. Family remittances represent an important source of income for about one-quarter of Mexicans families. Remittances are Mexico’s second most important [...]

Cobán, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
TAKE UP THE WEAPON OF REASON AND CONVERT IT INTO A FORCE TO TRANSFORM THIS COUNTRY, WHICH IS GOVERNED BY THIEVES AND CRIMINALS.
Delegado Zero, (aka Subcomandate Marcos) Enero de 2006, Yucatán

As Mike 360 said,
as Leslie Marmon Silko said,
as Rigoberta Menchú Tum said,
as Miguel Angél Asturias said,
as Simon J. Ortiz said,
as [...]

San Pedro la Laguna, Sololá, Guatemala

I wear striped pants
Numero cuarentasiete
La milpa ama a la orilla
Numero diecinueve
they all shout and clap
fill the afternoon
hammock on the cieling
los sonidos del pueblo
llora llora la bebe
el grupo empieza a tocar
los chavos a bailar
numero cincuenta sies
the bus’s pistons run
like disjointed reggaton
“a dios sea la gloria”
el grupo sigue sigue
las guapas a coquetear
numero [...]