+ Rob Mercatante's Guatemala Journal +

Photographs, news, and a daily blog by Rob Mercatante, a New Yorker living in ...

Last Update: Sun May 25 14:07:40 2008

+ Working with the FAFG + You might think that after almost twenty years in Guatemala that I would've reached the "been there, done that" point. Or perhaps ...

+ Rob's Flickr Photos + Hey everyone... Just a quick note before I call it a night. I've just recently began adding photos to my Flickr account. The ...

+ Back again! + Hey everyone! Sorry for going AWOL again... and by AWOL I mean "Absent While Off Line". September has been a frenzied, exhausting, ...

+ Guatemalan Presidential Election on Sunday + As many of you know, I often post articles from the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) on this blog. I find them to be ...

+ Felix falters + It appears that Guatemala has dodged yet another category 5 hurricane. First Dean, and now Felix: Weakened Felix over Honduras ...

+ Guatemala: Un ano Kaftiano + Aquí un análisis interesante sobre el El Tratado de Libre Comercio para Centroamérica (CAFTA), escrito por Umberto Mazzei, un ...

+ Guatemala's Kafta-esque Year + Here's an interesting analysis of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) written by Umberto Mazzei, a frequent ...

+ Hambruna en Zacapa + Hambruna en Zacapa. Unas 5 mil personas, de 53 comunidades del municipio de La Unión, están en crisis alimentaria y por lo menos 10 ...

+ Das Coke + After close to 20 years in Guatemala, I sometimes get to the point where I feel like I've heard it all before. But this story, ...

+ UNE y PP se alejan del resto + La Encuesta: UNE y PP se alejan del resto. En la Encuesta 6 de Vox Latina para Prensa Libre Álvaro Colom, de la UNE, y Otto Pérez ...

+ Bush Cares + One more Hurricane Dean post... because I just can't help myself. There's an AP story being picked up by newspapers around ...

+ Hurricane Dean update 2 + Good news about Hurricane Dean... It appears that the hurricane caused no deaths in Mexico, and that the damage was far less ...

+ Satellite image of Hurricane Dean + Here's a satellite image of Hurricane Dean, provided by Weather Underground. Click on the photo to see the most recent image. ...

+ Hurricane Dean update + Here is a summary of the Hurricane DEAN Public Advisory, from the National Hurricane Center: EYE OF POTENTIALLY CATASTROPHIC HURRICANE ...

+ U.S. Embassy Advisory: Hurricane Dean + According to a recent AP article "Dean Gains As Winds Slam Mexico, Belize" written by Mark Stevenson: Hurricane Dean strengthened into ...