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The Team in
Guatemala (February 6 - March 6, 1999)
Feb 6: Guatemala - Maya Civilization
- Jamila and
Klaus begin exploring Mayan culture with a visit to tropical Coba, the ruins of a
civilization.
- Visit a local school, tour a traditional Mayan home, and feed a
crocodile.
- Sacrifice a cigar and beer to the Mayan god, Maximon.
- Stroll through the
metropolis of Guatemala City with Abeja and glimpse its history and cultural diversity.
- Visit
five Mayan sites including Tulum and Uxmal, site of the legendary Pyramid of the
Soothsayer.
Feb 10: Guatemala - Its Beauty and Its Pain
- The gang meets
their homestay families in the mountain village of Todos Santos where the houses
have dirt floors.
- Don't worry- even though there is no electricity, the team will do its
best to stay in touch.
- Talk with Maria Toj from Defensoria Maya, the indigenous rights
organization in Guatemala City.
- Look deeper at the atrocities committed against indigenous people
during the 36-year civil war.
- Countdown to the live webcast with Rigoberta Menchu.
Feb 13: Guatemala - Diverse People with Diverse
Needs - Jamila sets off alone to a classroom in Belize where kids use
machetes instead of scissors.
- Find out why school children are barefoot.
- Visit a hospital and then
follow Jamila on the wrong boat to the wrong city.
- Jamila gets tongue-tied when she
realizes out of the five languages spoken in Livingston, Spanish and English are not
included.
- Meet the Garifuna people whose ancestors are from Africa.
- Jamila hangs out
with local high schoolers and learns the meaning of a "Garifuna heart."
- Work alongside
Monica with the human rights organization GAM.
Feb 17: Traditional Life and Hope for the Future
- Discover
maize, the corn crop and Guatemala's most important food.
- Meet traditional communities.
- Journey with
Abeja to the Quichua Highlands to attend a human rights conference.
- Got a health problem? Hire
a comadrona, a traditional Guatemalan healer.
- Get ready to meet Rigoberta Menchu.
Feb 20: Post-war Guatemala - You think traveling and coordinating
schedules with four other people is easy? Think again. Abeja gives the low-down about the mini
civil war amongst the group.
- Abeja opens up to Jamila about meeting a mother of six who
survived the thirty-six year Civil War.
- Kavitha meets with the man who founded
Youth for Peace, a support program for teens in Todos Santos - a pueblo where
students must travel three hours to get to the nearest high school.
- Sean meets with the town
shaman or medicine man. He might suggest you throw eggs on the ground or sacrifice a
rooster to cure a particular problem.
Feb 24: Modern Webcasts, Traditional Fincas and Everything in
Between - Did you miss the live webcast with Rigoberta? You can still
catch the interview and go behind the scenes with Kavitha.
- After all the stories about
human rights violations in Guatemala, find out the truth about the U.S. government's
treatment of Native American peoples.
- Where do all these coffee beans come from?
Kavitha visits one of the largest coffee fincas.
- Abeja invites you to join a Guatemalan
Youth Project.
- Say goodbye to Todos Santos as Shawn gives two final reports from the
Guatemalan highlands.
Feb 27: Re-Writing
History and Preserving the Future - Investigate with the team the U.S.
government's role in the atrocities of Guatemala's civil war.
- Witness with Abeja
the release of the Guatemalan government's official version of the history of
Guatemala during the war. What happened and who's responsible?
- Parade with Abeja and
gigantic floats representing Jesus through the ancient city of Antigua.
- Monica meets the
principal of a school in Concepción, and finds out how we can help the students to
learn.
- Kavitha travels into the depths of the largest rainforest in North America to
discover the endangered way of life for the indigenous people who live there.
- Jamila's last
dispatch sends her on a search for a doll that represents the appearance of most of the
children in Guatemala.
March 3: Final Days in Guatemala
- Meet Kevin,
our newest Trekker! Learn about his last days in America, and hopes for the future.
- Visit Santiago
Atitlán with Shawn. This tranquil village nestled amongst huge volcanoes
has seen its share of war and environmental destruction.
- Abeja reflects on the tragic truths of
Latin America's longest civil war and the implications of U.S. involvement in the genocide of
indigenous Guatemalans.
- Kavitha shares Part Two of her story of deforestation in the Peten
rainforest.
- Discover in our team dispatch with the School of the Americas is otherwise knows
as the School of Assassins.
March 6: Goodbye Guatemala, Hello Centroamerica!
- Travel with Kevin through five countries on his first adventurous week in
Central America (watch out for big mamma cockroaches!).
- Admire artifacts with Shawn at the
base of the pyramids of Chutinamit on Lago Atitlán--but first you must row across
the lake standing up!
- Hear from Monica the story of a man who knows first-hand the striking
differences between protesting violently in Nicaragua and peacefully in Costa Rica.
- Discover
with us the beautiful and unique country of Costa Rica.
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