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...grasp what it means to make a living for myself in this world. It’s strange how the quest for “Veritas” can push me further and further away from reality. Yet, I’m fortunate that every trip to Guatemala slaps me in the face with a taste of that reality. In my latest journey home, I realized we have a need to abandon abstractions and focus on finding sustainable ways for others to provide for themselves.Three 60-year-old brothers occupy my memories of the early part of this summer...
...immigrants in its society. It’s time that that the energy from the symbolic victories be sifted into channels for real change, whether it’s the city officials that declare them, or the all-important activists that fight for them. I was born in Guatemala of U.S. citizen parents. As such, my priority is to the countries where immigrants are from, places where even a fraction of the resources devoted to U.S. immigrants would break the cycles of poverty and instability that so many immigrants flee. Most people, however, are more comfortable working in a national...
...documenting the experience of South American migrant workers trying to make it to the United States. De Beausset is a native South American, fluent Spanish speaker, and an adventurer at heart. But towns like Altar will unnerve even the bravest among us. A JOURNEY THROUGH HELLWhen Hurricane Stan struck Guatemala last October, De Beausset decided to take a year off from Harvard to help with relief efforts.“With all those things happening, I felt really helpless,” he says. “I felt like I couldn’t do anything at Harvard...
Today is the first of May, a day that could signify the inauguration of global citizenship.For many in the U.S., this is a day of demonstrations for immigrants’ rights. For me, it is the culmination of a long trip that began two months ago in Guatemala, and—after a difficult journey that included a near-death experience at the hands of smugglers—will end today with a speech at Georgetown University. The pro-immigrant movement is bigger than amnesty, workers’ rights, and equal access to education; this movement is an declaration...
...office, rents at Charlesview range from $1,165-$1,494 a month. But if tenants are in exceptionally dire financial straits, the owners are accommodating, occasionally charging nothing—as happened the year Edna Archer lost her job.Archer, 42, came to the United States from Guatemala 20 years ago, following her mother to Massachusetts in search of work. Now employed by a medical company in Bedford, Mass., the single mother moved from nearby Everett Street to Charlesview three years ago with her two children, aged 16 and 20, attracted by the low rent and proximity to schools and public...