Testing joint fieldwork on commons in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala

What? Today we start an exciting experiment: joint fieldwork on commons in Latin America. For the first time in CEDLA’s history, we are...

Located at 21 Avenida in Zona 3, a huge hangar represents the dark history of Guatemala. Built as a tramway depot in 1930, it became a...

The market between disorder and informal organization

This divide between residents and authorities is perhaps most tangible when it comes to crime and public security. Guatemala seems to be...

When professionals in the urban area talk about rural resistance against Xela’s new territorial ordering plan (POT), often the difference...

When we started our investigation more than a week ago, we talked about Xela’s infrastructure with three young directors of different...

“In our street, unfortunately next to our house, a clandestine bar has been functioning for the past 11 years, the owner of this bar is...

Two weeks ago we engaged into an academic adventure. Driven by our curiosity about social changes in intermediate Latin American cities,...

The large Cementerio El Calvario of Quetzaltenango is the only public cemetery of Xela. Like most other urban cemeteries in Latin America...

We made a trip through Almolonga yesterday, an enclave of intensive vegetable farming production a few miles away from Xela. This trip...