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Internacionalista Manni Spicer Saavedra (he/him) wrote this reflection in August 2026. With a fellow accompanier, I wait on a highway overpass for a taxi that has now cancelled three times in a row, watching a little black car icon make progress, stall and inevitably double-back [...]
Internacionalista Taz (they/elle) wrote this reflection in August 2025. Late July, it is hot in Santa Anita las Canoas, the small Maya Kaqchikel community in Chimaltenango, a department in the central highlands of Guatemala. The dirt glows orange. Leaves of the coffee trees shift and shimmer. Don Aguilar(1) sits [...]
Internacionalista Nick (he/él) wrote this letter in the months of June and July 2025. From Guatemala City to Nebaj, the largest city in the Ixil region of Guatemala, it's a seven-hour drive, up and down mountains on steep roads chiseled into the hillside. NISGUA arrived at around four PM [...]
Ethan was in Guatemala as an Internacionalista with NISGUA during 2024–2025. They wrote this final letter in January 2025, reflecting on their experience and the people and movements that left a deep impression on them. On November 28th, 2024, the First Court of Appeals (whose members all have connections [...]
Internacionalista Greta (they/elle/ella) wrote this letter in September, 2024 and revised it in March, 2025. Today I’d like to write about intergenerational organizing, rural community building, connection to the land, and what it takes to sustain a movement for nearly two decades. These learnings have percolated during accompaniment trips [...]
Ethan, Internacionalista 2024, wrote this letter on October 9th, 2024 after a visit to ex-political prisoners in Huehuetenango. The Cuchumatanes mountains stretch 400 kilometers across the departments of Huehuetenango and Quiché in northwest Guatemala, the tallest non-volcanic mountain range in all of Central America. The name might [...]
Michelle Liang (she/her) wrote this letter in July, 2024. This Friends and Chosen Family letter is a little different. I thought, sometimes my favorite way of receiving stories is sitting down with my friends and flipping (or scrolling) through a photo album and listening to their commentary on each [...]
Michelle Liang (she/her) internacionalista 2023-2024 wrote this letter on February, 2024. Photo by NISGUA Internacionalista. Guatemala City. January 2024 Thank you for reading! I had written this letter a while ago, but as it is time for my next letter... here it is. A quick update [...]
Right now the most well documented genocide in recorded history is being committed by Israel–with the full throated military and political complicity of the United States–against the Palestinian people in Gaza. On Friday, March 8th (International Women’s Day) the biggest public display of solidarity with Palestine I’ve witnessed here [...]
An Internacionalista 2023 wrote this letter on August, 2023. Hello All, Welcome to my friends and family letter after 2 months of being in Guatemala! This letter is part update/part reflections on my time in Guatemala. I am so new here that I feel as though I [...]