Fair Trade Commerce and Social Policy
By Lucía Muñoz When discussing fair trade commerce, inequality must also be considered. According…
Q’eqchi’ Maya family protesting a mine suffers another murder
19-year-old Héctor Choc was beaten to death outside El Estor, Izabal, on March 31, Choc's…
Adobe is not poverty. It is resilience.
By Diana Pastor For many years adobe has been used in Guatemala as the construction…
Hunger caused by climate change is driving migration to the US
In 2010, US law enforcement arrested around 50,000 undocumented migrants at the border with Mexico.…
Impunity, tax privileges, and weak institutions threaten fiscal policy in Central America’s Northern Triangle
Commentary by Icefi - August, 2017 The Central American Institute of Fiscal Studies (Icefi) is…
US policy and the roots of the migration crisis
Migrants board the train La Bestia in Mexico. Photo by Uli Stelzner. By Sara Van…
The fight for water on Guatemala’s southern coast
By Matthew Burnett-Stuart For over a decade, 13 communities of the La Blanca municipality in…
Guate in Graphs: Last in the world in public spending?
The World Bank rated Guatemala last in the world in public spending and government revenues…
Guatemala’s low government debt
Some countries decide not to fund social programs or social investments so they don’t accumulate…