A collection of links to news articles, and scholarly/cultural writing relevant to Latin American that I ran across and thought were interesting enough to save for my own access and share with others. The focus, of couse, is on Guatemala, where my history and heart are.
- Chichi in the Review Mirror: Immigration as Seen From the Place of the Nettles. Five posts I made on my eponymous blog (maxkintner.com) in 2014 during one of my trips to Chichi to facilitate a clinical rotation for students from the University of Texas Medical Branch’s Physician Assistant Program. This was during the “unaccompanied minor” crisis that Obama had to deal with, and these short entries reflect my attempt to better understand what was going on. Much of the information in these blog posts is relevant and good background material for the crisis of parent-accompanied minors we face today. This is my brief presaging of themes discussed in the 2019 articles in The New Yorker by Jonathan Blitzer. Links are at (Part 1); (Part 2); (Part 3); (Part 4); and (Part 5).
- The New Yorker’s 3-part series by Jonathan Blitzer about Guatemalan emigration to the United States, and what drives it. Including sections on how climate change and debt are fueling immigration, and how successful immigration has led to a building boom of large, expensive, and impractical Guatemalan homes that often are never lived in.
- Occurs to me that any reader looking for highly informative, well-written, and easily accessible stories and analysis from The Land Of Eternal Spring & Tyranny should have the New Yorker search page for “Guatemala” in their personal bibliographies. Great updates on current social and political situations.
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