HONDURAS – LATIN AMERICA FOCUS

BELIZE, CENTRAL AMERICA, COSTA RICA, EL SALVADOR, GUATEMALA, HONDURAS, NICARAGUA, PANAMA, PHOTOGRAPHY, TRAVEL

CENTRAL AMERICA SERIES

One photo from each of the seven countries of Central America. Guatemala – Two Mayan women cross the square of Santiago Atitlan. Belize – Belizean girl on Caye Caulker. El Salvador – A street dog in the central square of Suchitoto Honduras – Three Honduran boys in front of the flags of Honduras, Guatemala and […]

BELIZE, CENTRAL AMERICA, EL SALVADOR, GUATEMALA, HONDURAS, MEXICO, PANAMA, POLITICS, TRANSLATION

CONTRABAND HITS GUATEMALA (TRANSLATION)

It is well known that drugs, particularly cocaine, transit through Central American nations before reaching Mexican cartels and the lucrative US market. This report, in todays edition of Mexican newspaper El Universal , shows that Central American nations are also the source and destination of smuggled goods, products which are otherwise legal. The article investigates how […]

CENTRAL AMERICA, HONDURAS, SKETCH, TRAVEL

FOLK ALONG THE WAY: SMALL TOWN HONDURAS

Trojes is a small Honduran town across the border from Jalapa, Nicaragua. It is not frequented much by travellers. They seemed quite surprised to see me at the border. I rode into town on the back of a pick-up on a dusty and rutted road and not long after the journey started my cap flew […]

ARGENTINA, BOLIVIA, BRAZIL, CENTRAL AMERICA, CHILE, COSTA RICA, CUBA, ECUADOR, EL SALVADOR, FOOD, GUATEMALA, HONDURAS, MEXICO, NICARAGUA, PANAMA, PERU, SOUTH AMERICA, TRAVEL, Uncategorized, VENEZUELA

LATIN AMERICAN FOOD: L-Z

Here’s the second instalment of my brief Latin American food guide – this time L-Z. It has been a bit more challenging to come up with a food for every letter here and I allowed myself some liberty. I’ve enjoyed compiling the guide, I hope you enjoy reading. Lechón: It’s hard to beat roast pork, […]

ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, CENTRAL AMERICA, CHILE, COSTA RICA, CUBA, ECUADOR, FOOD, HONDURAS, MEXICO, NICARAGUA, PERU, SOUTH AMERICA, TRAVEL

LATIN AMERICAN FOOD: A-K

Wake up each day and there is that need to put something in your stomach. In three years travelling/living in the Americas I filled up on all of the below and much, much more. I probably ate on the streets too much and am sure that I picked up a range of unwanted gut flora. […]

CENTRAL AMERICA, HONDURAS, PHOTOGRAPHY

LAGARTIJA

I was lucky to see this creature basking in the sun at Copan Ruins in Honduras. Incidentally lagartija (lizard) is one of my favourite words in Spanish – has a great sound to it. Actually there are other creatures from the natural world with great sounding names in Spanish. Murciélago (bat) and luciérnaga (firefly) are […]

BELIZE, BOLIVIA, BRAZIL, CENTRAL AMERICA, CHILE, COSTA RICA, CUBA, ECUADOR, EL SALVADOR, GUATEMALA, HONDURAS, MEXICO, NICARAGUA, PANAMA, PERU, PHOTOGRAPHY, POETRY, SOUTH AMERICA, VENEZUELA

ODE TO THE LATIN AMERICAN STREET DOG

Sans shame, you copulate under shop awnings, in parks, down alleys then trot off for post-coital taco scraps on Mexico City corners Slumbering in sunny plazas you dream while fleas run amok across your fur and screw into your rabid flesh I saw you snarl White of your eyes and unknown intentions in the streets […]

BELIZE, CENTRAL AMERICA, COSTA RICA, EL SALVADOR, GUATEMALA, HONDURAS, NICARAGUA, PANAMA, TRAVEL

THE MULTIFACETED CHICKEN BUS OF CENTRAL AMERICA

Chicken buses – the epithet comes from the possibility that you might be seated next to one – are the mainstay of travel in Central America. These old American Bluebird school buses, often repainted in the most garish of colours and adorning such adages as ‘Jesus Christ is the saviour’ and ‘Jehovah will show the […]

HONDURAS, PHOTOGRAPHY

MOT MOT @ COPAN RUINAS

The elusive quetzal is the most fabled bird of the Mexico/Central America region. Unfortunately the only ones that I was able to spot were on the banknotes of Guatemala, where the unit of currency is also the quetzal. The birds of the motmot family, with their colourful plumages and extended tails, are pretty spectacular as […]