The latest Guatemala news reveals that on Monday Guatemala rocked by an earthquake of magnitude 6.0 on the Richter scale which was followed by numerous aftershocks.
The latest Guatemala news reveals that on Monday Guatemala rocked by an earthquake of magnitude 6.0 on the Richter scale which was followed by numerous aftershocks. Guatemala news has been reported by plenty of reliable sources and according to this very fresh Guatemala news, a heavy quake with a great force of 6.0 shaken the area of Guatemala on Monday early in the morning. It has been confirmed by the seismologists of United States geological survey that a 6.0 quake struck Guatemala City at around 9:40 am.
It shaken the buildings in the area and frightened the people of Guatemala City. It occurred in the Guatemala City areas closer to E1 Salvador borders; it was centered 95 kilo meters in the south-east areas of Guatemala City. It has also been mentioned by USGS that the depth of this latest quake was 103.3 kilo meters and it was also centered 110 kilo meters in the western parts of San Salvador.
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South Florida set to get $48M in green energy incentives - South Florida Business Journal:
South Florida set to get $48M in green energy incentives
When it comes to green energy, it’s difficult to find someone in South Florida who can’t potentially take advantage of the federal stimulus package.
Utilities, municipalities, universities, homeowners and small businesses all stand to gain from stimulus incentives for renewable energy and energy conservation.
The energy provisions are still evolving, but there are some certain impacts to local business:
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Experience the Jungles of Guatemala in Provo
Experience the Jungles of Guatemala in Provo
By OTTO NUILA, UPP Contributor—
You may never make it to the jungles of Guatemala, but there is a way you can bring those same jungles to you right here in Provo.
“ORO” is the nickname of the dried seed of a Guatemalan jungle cash crop. Cardamomo is its Spanish name, but we know it as cardamom in English. Oro, meaning gold in Spanish, is a good description because the cardamom seed is literally worth its weigh in gold.
Cardamom is a spice rarely used in American cooking but very well know in the foods of Latin America, India, Scandinavia and the Middle East. Scandinavians use it like nutmeg in their baking, Indians include it in their curry, and in the Middle East many use it to spice up their hot coffees and teas. Here in Provo you can enjoy the spice by making a cup of hot chocolate a little more interesting by adding a crushed seed of cardamom. Another one of my favorite uses is to add some cardamom to my oatmeal along with a splash of vanilla extract. Below is another cardamom recipe for the most delicious bread to have with your hot chocolate.
The aroma of cardamom evokes a memory of my visits to the airport in Coban, Alta Vera Paz, Guatemala. It is there where “squadrons” of Cessna bush pilots fly in and out of the Guatemalan jungles to pick up the cardamom “quintales” or gunny sacks that indigenous farmers have filled with cardamom grown on their plots of land. The only way to access the goods of some of these farmers is by air with a rough landing on a dirt strip. Yes, there are many airplane wreckages out in the jungle as a reminder of an overweight takeoff or the cow that decided to take a stroll across the strip on landings roll.........
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Experience the Jungles of Guatemala in Provo
By OTTO NUILA, UPP Contributor—
You may never make it to the jungles of Guatemala, but there is a way you can bring those same jungles to you right here in Provo.
“ORO” is the nickname of the dried seed of a Guatemalan jungle cash crop. Cardamomo is its Spanish name, but we know it as cardamom in English. Oro, meaning gold in Spanish, is a good description because the cardamom seed is literally worth its weigh in gold.
Cardamom is a spice rarely used in American cooking but very well know in the foods of Latin America, India, Scandinavia and the Middle East. Scandinavians use it like nutmeg in their baking, Indians include it in their curry, and in the Middle East many use it to spice up their hot coffees and teas. Here in Provo you can enjoy the spice by making a cup of hot chocolate a little more interesting by adding a crushed seed of cardamom. Another one of my favorite uses is to add some cardamom to my oatmeal along with a splash of vanilla extract. Below is another cardamom recipe for the most delicious bread to have with your hot chocolate.
The aroma of cardamom evokes a memory of my visits to the airport in Coban, Alta Vera Paz, Guatemala. It is there where “squadrons” of Cessna bush pilots fly in and out of the Guatemalan jungles to pick up the cardamom “quintales” or gunny sacks that indigenous farmers have filled with cardamom grown on their plots of land. The only way to access the goods of some of these farmers is by air with a rough landing on a dirt strip. Yes, there are many airplane wreckages out in the jungle as a reminder of an overweight takeoff or the cow that decided to take a stroll across the strip on landings roll.........
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Christmas in Guatemala
With many people from different countries moving to Guatemala there are many forms of Christmas that takes place in this unique country. But as tradition would have it Guatemala natives celebrate Christmas in their own unique way.
Guatemalans also celebrate La Posada, as they take religious statues around town or to the plaza in the center of town, or bring them to all of their friends’ houses to sing carols. They also set off firecrackers and bang loud drums to celebrate these icons. German immigrants brought over the famous Christmas tree, which still today.
Guatemalans decorate for the holidays. If the families have spare money to purchase Christmas gifts for the children, then it is tradition to leave these gifts under the Christmas tree for Christmas day. On the other hand, adults exchange their gifts on New Year’s Eve.
Guatemalans also combine some of their old Mayan traditions into Christmas season, which are shown on the Feast Day of St Thomas on December 21st. There is a huge parade with a traditional Mayan flying pole dance. December 21st marks the birthday of Santo Tomas, patron saint of the Quiche Maya market town of Chichicastenango. Festivities are centered on the square in front of the church, where hundreds of costumed dancers perform amid a riotously colorful crowd of tightly packed Maya onlookers.
The typical food during this season is tamales.
Divers probe Mayan
Divers probe Mayan ruins submerged in Guatemala Lake
Source (Reuters)
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Scuba divers are exploring the depths of a volcanic lake in Guatemala to find clues about an ancient sacred island where Mayan pilgrims flocked to worship before it was submerged by rising waters.
Samabaj, the first underwater archaeological ruins excavated in Guatemala, were discovered accidentally 12 years ago by a diver exploring picturesque Lake Atitlan, ringed by Mayan villages and popular with foreign tourists.
"No one believed me, even when I told them all about it. They just said 'he's mad'," said Roberto Samayoa, a businessman and recreational diver who grew up near the lake where his grandmother told him legends of a sunken church.
Samayoa dived for years at the lake, often stumbling across pieces of pottery from the Mayan pre-classic period. In 1996, he found the site, with parts of buildings and huge ceremonial stones, known as stelae, clearly visible.
He named it Samabaj, after himself, but only in the past year have professional archeologists taken an interest, mapping the 4,300-square-foot (400-square-meter) area with sonar technology and excavating structures on a raised part of the lake bed.
Researchers believe this area, 50 feet below the lake's surface, was once an island until a catastrophic event, like a volcanic eruption or landslide, raised water levels.
The rising lake drowned the buildings around 250 A.D., before the height of the Mayan empire, and ceramics found intact there suggest the inhabitants left in a hurry.
"We have found six ceremonial monuments and four altars and without doubt there are more, which means this was an extremely important place from a spiritual point of view," lead archaeologist Sonia Medrano told Reuters in an interview.
The Maya built soaring pyramids and elaborate palaces in Central America and southern Mexico before mysteriously abandoning their cities around 900 A.D.
Medrano, whose work is funded by the U.S.-based Reinhart Foundation, says the island has ruins of small houses for about 150 people and is crammed with religious paraphernalia, leading researchers to believe Samabaj was a pilgrimage destination.
Worshippers probably flocked there from the surrounding area, hiring boats from the shore to row them out to the island for prayer and contemplation, Medrano said.
Excavating in the murky, green water is challenging, with artifacts hard to see and buried under thousands of years of sediment.
The exact location of the site is a closely guarded secret, since the archaeologists want to protect it from looters who fish in the ruins for artifacts to be sold, sometimes for thousands of dollars, on the black market.
Written by: Sarah Grainger
Source (Reuters)
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Scuba divers are exploring the depths of a volcanic lake in Guatemala to find clues about an ancient sacred island where Mayan pilgrims flocked to worship before it was submerged by rising waters.
Samabaj, the first underwater archaeological ruins excavated in Guatemala, were discovered accidentally 12 years ago by a diver exploring picturesque Lake Atitlan, ringed by Mayan villages and popular with foreign tourists.
"No one believed me, even when I told them all about it. They just said 'he's mad'," said Roberto Samayoa, a businessman and recreational diver who grew up near the lake where his grandmother told him legends of a sunken church.
Samayoa dived for years at the lake, often stumbling across pieces of pottery from the Mayan pre-classic period. In 1996, he found the site, with parts of buildings and huge ceremonial stones, known as stelae, clearly visible.
He named it Samabaj, after himself, but only in the past year have professional archeologists taken an interest, mapping the 4,300-square-foot (400-square-meter) area with sonar technology and excavating structures on a raised part of the lake bed.
Researchers believe this area, 50 feet below the lake's surface, was once an island until a catastrophic event, like a volcanic eruption or landslide, raised water levels.
The rising lake drowned the buildings around 250 A.D., before the height of the Mayan empire, and ceramics found intact there suggest the inhabitants left in a hurry.
"We have found six ceremonial monuments and four altars and without doubt there are more, which means this was an extremely important place from a spiritual point of view," lead archaeologist Sonia Medrano told Reuters in an interview.
The Maya built soaring pyramids and elaborate palaces in Central America and southern Mexico before mysteriously abandoning their cities around 900 A.D.
Medrano, whose work is funded by the U.S.-based Reinhart Foundation, says the island has ruins of small houses for about 150 people and is crammed with religious paraphernalia, leading researchers to believe Samabaj was a pilgrimage destination.
Worshippers probably flocked there from the surrounding area, hiring boats from the shore to row them out to the island for prayer and contemplation, Medrano said.
Excavating in the murky, green water is challenging, with artifacts hard to see and buried under thousands of years of sediment.
The exact location of the site is a closely guarded secret, since the archaeologists want to protect it from looters who fish in the ruins for artifacts to be sold, sometimes for thousands of dollars, on the black market.
Written by: Sarah Grainger
Guateamala Starving Children
Guatemala Malnutrition Problem
It is hard to believe that here in the Americas that Malnutrition is a serious problem, but it is. When talking about starving children your first thought goes to Africa. But here in Guatemala the problem of malnutrition has become acute.
Guatemala is hardly one of the poorest countries in the Americas but according to Unicef almost half of the children of this war torn country are chronically malnourished. In some areas of Guatemala where the population is mostly Mayan the child malnutrition is over 80%. The diet for these families is mostly corn tortillas.
In my travels through the country side of Guatemala and working and sleeping in villages throughout the highlands I have witnessed hundreds of hungry children and adults. Tortillas are a regular source of food for these families. My wife being a nurse states that a regular diet of this food without a proper balance of fruit, vegetables, and protein will cause permanent damage to these children.
One afternoon we did physicals to some 100 children in a small school in the highlands outside of Patzun. Every child was malnourished, had bad teeth problems, and dehydrated. Most of the children also were underdeveloped do to the fact of being malnourished.
As stated in an article printed in the Economist “That points to a failure of government in Guatemala. The Mayan population were the main victims of a long-running civil war between military dictatorships and left-wing guerrillas. Although democracy came, and eventually peace, social conditions have been slow to improve. Income inequality remains extreme, even by Latin American standards. Two-thirds of the rural population remains poor. Guatemala came second to bottom of a new index measuring inequality of opportunity in Latin America published by the World Bank last year. Whereas Guatemala City has shiny shopping malls, gated mansions and trendy restaurants, many indigenous Guatemalans scratch an inadequate living as sharecropping subsistence farmers. “These people were totally abandoned in the mountains with no infrastructure, no education, no health,” says Rafael Espada, the vice-president”.
Guatemalan people are great people, the Mayan’s have some awesome culture and are loving gracious people.
We are here to help these people and get the word out about what is happening in our neighboring country.
Please consider partnering with us to help these children that are caught in between starvation and political power.
It is hard to believe that here in the Americas that Malnutrition is a serious problem, but it is. When talking about starving children your first thought goes to Africa. But here in Guatemala the problem of malnutrition has become acute.
Guatemala is hardly one of the poorest countries in the Americas but according to Unicef almost half of the children of this war torn country are chronically malnourished. In some areas of Guatemala where the population is mostly Mayan the child malnutrition is over 80%. The diet for these families is mostly corn tortillas.
In my travels through the country side of Guatemala and working and sleeping in villages throughout the highlands I have witnessed hundreds of hungry children and adults. Tortillas are a regular source of food for these families. My wife being a nurse states that a regular diet of this food without a proper balance of fruit, vegetables, and protein will cause permanent damage to these children.
One afternoon we did physicals to some 100 children in a small school in the highlands outside of Patzun. Every child was malnourished, had bad teeth problems, and dehydrated. Most of the children also were underdeveloped do to the fact of being malnourished.
As stated in an article printed in the Economist “That points to a failure of government in Guatemala. The Mayan population were the main victims of a long-running civil war between military dictatorships and left-wing guerrillas. Although democracy came, and eventually peace, social conditions have been slow to improve. Income inequality remains extreme, even by Latin American standards. Two-thirds of the rural population remains poor. Guatemala came second to bottom of a new index measuring inequality of opportunity in Latin America published by the World Bank last year. Whereas Guatemala City has shiny shopping malls, gated mansions and trendy restaurants, many indigenous Guatemalans scratch an inadequate living as sharecropping subsistence farmers. “These people were totally abandoned in the mountains with no infrastructure, no education, no health,” says Rafael Espada, the vice-president”.
Guatemalan people are great people, the Mayan’s have some awesome culture and are loving gracious people.
We are here to help these people and get the word out about what is happening in our neighboring country.
Please consider partnering with us to help these children that are caught in between starvation and political power.
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