"Central America" Blogs & Blog Posts

As a radio journalist committed to the goal of representing all voices, she fought to tell the stories of Latino communities in the Americas.

The entrenchment of coca, the base ingredient in cocaine, in multiple countries and the futility of eradication in the Andes bode ill for the future.

An extended period of turmoil in the prehistoric Maya city of Mayapan, in the Yucatan region of Mexico, was marked by population declines, political rivalries and civil conflict. Between 1441 and 1461 CE the strife reached an unfortunate crescendo --...

Georgia State University anthropologist Dr. Jeffrey Glover grew up in metro Atlanta, but speaking to him, it sounds like his heart is in Quintana Roo. This part of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula has been the home base for an expansive research project sp...

Four children in Mexico were buried in the years after the Spanish Conquest with rituals and grave offerings that suggest that pre-Hispanic customs lived on for some time after the Aztec empire fell.The four infant burials date from 1521 to 1620 [Cre...

For the ancient Mayans, corn was the vital plant par excellence. The Popol Vuh, their sacred text, told that the gods created humans out of its dough, after first attempting to make them from mud and wood. Only those made from corn dough survived; on...

In 2001, a group of archaeologists led by William Saturno discovered a partially concealed Maya city in the jungle of El Peten, in Guatemala. The place known as San Bartolo stood out for its pyramid built in successive phases, one on top of the other...