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Behind the lens: Darren Hauck covers violence in Guatemala
After 12 years of shooting digital I wanted to try a different approach - to separate from the other work- and slow down. So I started to photograph using my 4x5 camera. This series is called “It’s Still War”. Guatemala suffered a civil war, that lasted from 1
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After 12 years of shooting digital I wanted to try a different approach - to separate from the other work- and slow down. So I started to photograph using my 4x5 camera. This series is called “It’s Still War”. Guatemala suffered a civil war, that lasted from 1
Fears of measles crossing southern border into U.S. are unfounded
Conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh and others have blamed the current measles outbreak on children illegally crossing the southern border of the U.S.
"Children sick, healthy, you name it — poor, ill-educated, just tens of thousands of kids...
El Mirador's Maya marvels await discovery in the Guatemalan jungle
After a daylong slog through the suffocating Guatemalan jungle, we emerged before a soaring pyramid in the ghostly ruins of El Tintal, our first stop in the forested realm of the Serpent King.
A slight breeze stirred the air, offering a respite from...
Guatemala: Culinary tour blends cuisines, culture
Experience Guatemala's rich cultural heritage from a unique perspective in February when a four-day Antigua culinary tour blends Southern-style United States cuisine with Maya flavors. The Cultiva Tours itinerary includes sightseeing in Antigua, as well...
Guatemala, once a leader in war-crime prosecutions, at a standstill
For a while, Guatemala appeared to be at the global forefront of war-crimes prosecutions.
Over a six-week period last year, a notorious dictator, Efrain Rios Montt, sat in the docket, questioned by prosecutors and confronted by the survivors — mostly...
Mexico crackdown keeps migrants off trains known as 'La Bestia'
Around midnight, armed with flashlights, Mexican immigration agents halted "La Bestia" — the Beast.
"Come down!" "Come over here!" they shouted at the migrants clinging to the top and sides of the freight train.
Some...
Biden heading to Central America to address child immigration wave
The White House is expanding a public campaign aimed at dispelling rumors in the U.S. and Latin America about its rules regarding deportation of young immigrants — part of an effort to slow the rising number of minors crossing into the U.S. without...
Walking among saints and sinners at Fowler Museum
The image of bandit Jesus Malverde turns up as a kind of venerated saint inside "Quitapesares (Solace)," a makeshift chapel by artist Maria Romero erected near the end of a large new exhibition at the UCLA Fowler Museum.
On May 3, 1909, the...
Central American amputees, once migrants, seek help in Mexico
TAPACHULA, Mexico — The last time Norman Varela made an unauthorized crossing into Mexico, he was headed to the United States, in search of a job, riding atop the infamous northbound freight train known as La Bestia — the Beast.
Mexican policemen...
A young, gay immigrant comes out of two closets
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — In almost every sense, Emilio Vicente is an American success story.
He grew up a shy kid in the North Carolina mill town of Siler City. His parents, who moved there when he was 6, had little formal education and worked long, punishing...
Return of conspiracy nuts: Obama's secret immigration reform 'plan'
In the quest for simple answers to complex problems, one irrational explanation for the humanitarian crisis at our southern border demands an unqualified refutation.
That would be the conspiracy theory being peddled by conservatives that President...
Enrique's Journey | Chapter One: Notes About Sources
Sonia Nazario, the writer, found Enrique in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, in May 2000. She and Don Bartletti, the photographer, spent two weeks with him there and rejoined him at the end of his journey in North Carolina. Then, based on Nazario's extensive...
Nearly 300 women, children deported from immigration detention centers
Nearly 300 Central American women and children have been deported from family detention centers that opened in the wake of a recent influx of people illegally crossing the Southwest border.
As of Wednesday evening, 280 women and children had been...
LAUSD opens doors to young Central American immigrants
At the low-slung bungalow west of downtown, a youngster screams from a vaccination and a nurse records the height and weight of an older boy. Academic counselors stand by, because it is here that many children who recently crossed the southern border...
Exploitation awaits migrant children on Mexico's southern edge
They are called canguritos, little kangaroos, because of the plastic trays of candy, cigarettes and other goods strapped across their bellies.
There is Juan Gonzalez, 10, selling gum for pennies. There are Humberto Vazquez, 11, and Wilmer Hernandez,...
Amid border crisis debate, many new immigrants land in D.C. area
Virginia is more than 1,500 miles from the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, epicenter of the border crisis.
And it is the home state of Rep. Eric Cantor, who was defeated by a tea party novice who attacked the former House majority leader for being open...
A U.S. immigration solution: Fix Central America
For the citizens of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, the crisis prompted by the surge of children from Latin America coming across the U.S. border is not simply an immigration story. It is about more than unemployment, poverty, gang violence and the...
Border crisis: U.S. targets money launderers to track child smugglers
The increasingly costly and divisive border crisis is pushing federal investigators to crack down on money-laundering schemes they say are being used to smuggle thousands of Central American children into the United States.
Agents from the Department...
More than rumors drive Central American youths toward U.S.
A couple of weeks ago, sisters Karen and Sindy Laucel joined the exodus of youths from Central America, hoping to reconnect with their mother, who had left this farming village a decade ago in search of work in the U.S.
With so many heading north, now...
Addressing the border crisis
Tens of thousands of Central American children, some accompanied by adults but most traveling alone, have surged across the U.S.-Mexican border in recent months. The flood has swamped the border security infrastructure as well as the youth housing...
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