Xeni.net/trek: Dispatches from Guatemala

I've been traveling in Guatemala since early November, working on a series of stories. Here's a recent batch of notes from the road from the past few days, and the entire trip journal is at xeni.net/trek.

* Veladoras (video clip)

* Terremoto: a 5.9 earthquake hits

* Snapshot studies in Petén

* Medical aid for Mayan communities near Lake Atitlán

* Film on "femicides" in Guatemala: Killer's Paradise

* Film on sex workers in Guatemala: Estrellas de la Linea

* Some headlines in news here this week

Petén detail

Images: top (video clip) and bottom (thatch hut with banana frond; vulture on thatch hut), me. Middle (baby in bathwater) courtesy puebloapueblo.org.