guatemala
- Instead of building a wall to keep desperate migrants out, how about we help make their communities safe so they'll want to stay. After all, we helped cause their problems.
- I came to live in the U.S. when I was 9. My family immigrated from Guatemala, which at the time was in the midst of a bloody civil war. I was never asked if I wanted to move — I was never even prepared for the culture shock, the vastly different school system or life in urban Los Angeles.
- Jose Ortiz Morales has led a very quiet life since crossing into the Texas illegally in 1988. The Guatemala native made his way to Washington D.C., settled in
- An Ellicott City dentist and his daughter volunteered in a pediatric dental clinic in a poverty-stricken village in the Mayan highlands of Guatemala.
- Nearly 800 former research subjects and their families filed a billion-dollar lawsuit Wednesday against the Johns Hopkins University, blaming the institution for its role in 1940s and 1950s experiments in Guatemala that infected hundreds with syphilis, gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted diseases.
- A trip years ago to visit a friend and aid worker in a Guatemala City slum proved life altering for Towson resident Bethany Tran, who launched an online shoe boutique in a partnership with cobblers and weavers from Guatemala.