Central America – 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 […]

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MARA SALVATRUCHA?

I didn’t get to make small talk with these two to ask, or was too afraid to do so, but they have all the earmarks of being members or former members of Mara Salvatrucha aka MS-13, a criminal gang originating in Los Angeles and made up predominantly of Salvadorans. During one of the 400 pueblos […]

CENTRAL AMERICA, NICARAGUA, TRAVEL

LATIN AMERICA APPETITE WHETTER # 1: ISLA DE OMETEPE (NICARAGUA)

This is the first in a series of brief travel bites. I’ll aim to add one from every Latin American country I’ve visited. Isla de Ometepe rises majestically from Central America’s largest lake in Central America’s largest country-Nicaragua. Ometepe is reached by ferry which leaves port six kilometres from the township of Rivas. The voyage […]

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 […]