SPECIAL POST! GUATEMALA: HELP, STRUGGLE & HOPE

Today, we have received terrible news from Guatemala. El Volcán de Fuego has erupted and the situation is dramatic. Guatemala needs international help now. We hope it arrives early and the inhabitants can be attended.

It's difficult to talk about tragedies, especially from the distance, but today, The Grandma wants to remember Maya Bond, a member of The Bonds who has a real and closer relationship with Guatemala. In her honour and in memory of all people who are suffering this terrible reaction of the Nature, we are going to reeditate Maya Bond's post, made by her, which was published in February 2 2017.

Here it is...

WELCOME TO GUATEMALA: HEART OF THE MAYAN WORLD

Let there be freedom for the Indians, 

wherever they may be in the American Continent 

or elsewhere in the world, because while they are alive, 

a glow of hope will be alive as well as a true concept of life. 

Rigoberta Menchu

Guatemala is located in Central America; we have the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic. And if you want cold you go north and if you want heat you go south. You'll always find that you want.

Maya Bond in El Mirador, Guatemala

Tikal. This is one of the wonderful places you can find in my country. This area is called La Gran Plaza and we can find the Gran Jaguar that they do not allow to climb to preserve it.

In Temple IV one feels an ant over the infinite canopy of jungle. A curiosity, right from this point were filmed scenes of the Star Wars (Episode IV), being the headquarters of the rebels in Yavin 4 (precisely 4), one of the habitable moons of the giant gas Yavin. Also appearing in Apocalypsis Mel Gibson's tape recorded in the year 2006.

More information: Visit Guatemala

The Volcán de Fuego. We can see it from the city and we are even an area where we constantly feel many earthquakes, as much for the activity of this one as for the Tectonic foult that we have, that are many.

Panajachel. Its full name is San Francisco Panajachel and is a city of approximately 11,000 inhabitants. it is located in the Guatemalan highlands on the shores of Lago de Atitlan at an altitude of 1500 meters above sea level. Volcanoes Toliman, Atitlan and San Pedro in front of Lago de Atitlan.

Semuc Champey. To get here we have a long road of 5 hours that is worth it, but due to the bad condition of the roads it is impossible to arrive before.

More information: Guatemala by Maya Bond

Among the main languages of Guatemala we find: Itza, K'iche', Q'eqchi', Kaqchiquel, Mam, Poqomchi, Tz'utujil, Achí, Q'anjob'al, Ixil, Akateko, Chu, Ch'orti', Awakateco, Sakapulteko, Sipakapense, Uspanteko, Tektiteko, Mopan, Popti' and Chalchiteko.

Languages not Mayan: Garífuna, Xinca and Castilian.

El Mirador. There are no words to describe such a wonderful discovery, of which his first excavations were in 1983. As a curious fact, the pyramid exceeds 200,000 cubic meters to the Great Pyramid of Cheops in Giza.

The indigenous peoples never had, and still do not have, 

the place that they should have occupied 

in the progress and benefits of science and technology, 

although they represented an important basis for this development.

Rigoberta Menchu