Guatecuenta Guatecuenta Productions

Welcome to our final episode. Today we continue talking to Eric, Elias and Barbara. Together we'll discuss immigration, the impacts it has on the family members remaining in Huehuetenango as well as the impacts it has on the communities that lose their most valuable resource, its people. Our guests:Eric Galvez: Program Coordinator for the Ixtatan Foundation in HuehuetenangoElias Alonso: Director of Development for the Ixtatan Foundation. He was born and raised in San Mateo Ixtatan, a tow...

In our second to last episode, we’ve brought 4 guests to the table to help us Explore Huehuetenango’s work force / employment field, to understand what makes up its commerce, to discover what kind of help and guide are available to those entering the work field or wanting to become entrepreneurs, and finally to learn about family structures and finances. Our guests:Eric Galvez: Program Coordinator for the Ixtatan Foundation in HuehuetenangoElias Alonso: Director of Development for the Ix...

Welcome back!Today we present Edyth Santiago, a young and vibrant musician from Huehuetenango. She was the recipient of the English Access Microscholarhip Program sponsored by the US Embassy in Guatemala and studied English for four years. She dreams to become a music producer and be able to give back to her community. Today we hear her experience as she has navigated this field in her hometown, but we also hear her plea for more support to the artistic community of Huehuetenango. For m...

We’re 3 out of 6 episodes in this journey of Exploring Huehuetenango. Today, Monica Lopez, an English teacher and a Huehuetenango native explores her city from the outside. You may ask how? Well, when she traveled to Charlottesville in 2016, she didn’t travel alone; she traveled with everything Huehuetenango had prepared her with. While being there, she compared her hometown to the Virginian city, and although she embraced everything about it and was amazed by the entire experience...

In the second episode to the six-part series of Exploring Huehuetenango, we hear from Fredy Ramirez Palma, the founder of Natucultura, an authorized agency located in Huehuetenango offering tour guides and information regarding the city and the department’s culture. In this episode we learn about Huehuetenango’s history dating back to the BC era. Fredy follows a chronological order when presenting Huehuetenango as not only a territory, a settlement, and a premature city, but also as what it i...

A helpful guide to understanding the playlist. Each track represents one of the 22 states that make up Guatemala. In bold you’ll find the name of the department (state). These are organized geographically. With the help of a map, you can follow along. 1. Flores Peteneras: In honor of the island of Flores, the capitol of Peten2. Cobanerita: Coban is the capitol of Alta Verapaz; the demonym for the people from Coban is cobanero/cobanera. 3. Puerto Barrios: The title is the name of th...