Tuesday 21 May 2013
Potential in a Nutshell Valhalla, a five-acre organic macadamia nut farm just outside of La Antigua, has been a cherished oasis for three decades. Visitors come for the pancakes, facials, and camaraderie with the owners, staff, and guests from all over the world. Lorenzo Gottschamer, a former firefighter in Redwood City, California, took over...
Where are you from? I was born and raised in La Antigua. I lived here until I was about fourteen and then I took off to a boarding school in Colorado where I had my first intersection with farming. After high school, I moved to California and kept farming there. Then after I graduated...
Clemens Luhmann was born in Germany in 1965, the son of internationally known sociologist and systems theorist, Niklas Luhmann, and his wife, the artist and goldsmith Ursula Luhmann. He grew up in Bielefeld, a college town in northwestern Germany. Dr. Luhmann first traveled to Latin America in 1987, beginning an ongoing interest and fascination...
The celebration of All Saints’ Day on November 1st in the Kaqchikel Maya villages of Sumpango and Santiago Sacatepéquez is unique in Latin America. Their tradition includes the making of giant kites constructed entirely of bamboo and tissue paper and covered in images. Julio Asturias has been a barriletero (kite maker) in Sumpango for...
This legend is one of those stories whose history is as knotted as the roots of an old tree, one of those where nobody knows where it starts or where it ends, a story that can be found in every nook and cranny, in every city, and in every country in Latin America. No...
Fernando Arias is the owner Kaffee Fernando’s. As Fernando says, “It’s the kind of café where you can come and talk to people you’ve never seen before. You can disagree with everything everyone is saying, and still agree that you’re having a nice time.” Qué Pasa visited him there and discussed his thoughts on...
For the first time since Guatemala first participated in the Olympics way back in 1952 at Helsinki, this proud nation has won its first Olympic medal.
Walking through the streets of La Antigua Guatemala, surely your curiosity and imagination have taken flight and you have wondered what things have happened here in this place, what stories have been told about those still-standing buildings, what moaning and groaning hides, whispering among the ruins, and what kind of footsteps have clattered along...
Teacher Ervin Chan, from the José Ignacio Ortiz Vides Official Rural Coeducational School in the village of El Hato here in the Municipality of Antigua Guatemala, tells us about his own history as well as about life in a rural village near La Antigua. Tell us a little bit about you and your life....
Where were you born? I was born in La Antigua Guatemala, on the 28th of December in 1962 in a house on 3ª Calle Oriente. A tradition is celebrated here in Guatemala on December 28th (which is being lost little by little), which is to play practical jokes on people. It’s El Día de...
