Word: guatemalans
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...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 of the universal human value. In the words of popular Guatemalan singer, Ricardo Arjona, it is an affirmation of the “universal visa” granted and taken away upon birth and death by “the consulate of the sky.” Past social movements have attacked the inequalities associated with being born of a different...
Kyle A. De Beausset ’08, a Guatemalan native who is taking the year off from Harvard, was in Mexico researching the experiences of illegal immigrants who travel from places like Guatemala, through Mexico, and eventually to the United States...
...learn that his new film sounds warnings straight out of liberal Hollywood's bible. Apocalypto, which Gibson loosely translates from the Greek as "a new beginning," was inspired in large part by his work with the Mirador Basin Project, an effort to preserve a large swath of the Guatemalan rain forest and its Maya ruins. Gibson and his rookie cowriter on Apocalypto, Farhad Safinia, were captivated by the ancient Maya, one of the hemisphere's first great civilizations, which reached its zenith about A.D. 600 in southern Mexico and northern Guatemala. The two began poring over Maya myths of creation...
...school in Guatemala all of my life, where identity was more about where you were from than what color your skin was. Cesar and Ron were not black; they were Dominican and Bajan-Israeli. Peter, Anabel, and Miho were not Asian; they were Korean, Taiwanese, and Japanese. I was Guatemalan, born and raised, and the fact that I was white was secondary...
...former Radcliffe Institute fellow, Jennifer K. Harbury, discusses the Central Intelligence Agency’s use of torture tactics in her most recent book. Her investigation is also intensely personal: her former husband, a Mayan resistance leader, was allegedly kidnapped and murdered in 1992 by a Guatemalan government-backed death squad with ties to the CIA. 6:30 p.m. Harvard Book Store...