Travel Blog Photos from Retalhuleu (35)
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![]() | Retalhuleu, Guatemala |
As offered in a previous entry here, there are many questions that I´d like to explore with the inhabitants of this newly founded cooperative community. I had attempted on several occasions to inquire how they felt about the changes that had happened in ...
(Pictures to come) I arrived at the finca (plantation), La Communidad de Nueava Alianza, with no hitches early Tuesday afternoon, the 22nd of August. I immediately learned that the volunteer I intended to meet before he left had left that same morning. ...
... reading alot about the Agrarian Reforms here in Guatemala. For those who don't read alot about Agrarian Reform in Guatemala... After independence from Spain, an emerging coffee elite class started to take control of indigenous owned lands to further expand ...
... with Roisin, her son Leo and Rea who are Irish. It took us 2 hours by microbuses to go to the community who are based next Retalhuleu on the east of Xela. In the morning we went for a nice 2 hours walk to a small waterfall where you can take a bath. ...