Photo: AFP/Getty Images Late last night I ended up watching the interview that Rick Warren hosted with Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama (watch it here). I was deeply impressed. When I was in Guatemala I didn’t have much of an opportunity to see video of Obama and I was limited to distilled sound bytes in news articles. … [Read more…]
Many will say to me, “Adventurer,” and that I am, except of a different kind and of those who wear the skin to demonstrate their truth. -Ché Guevara My neighbour got me a Ché shirt the other day and this quote is on it. Then I watched a 3 1/2 hour miniseries on the rise … [Read more…]
drawing by Matt Carmody CHENEY: On the security front, I think there’s a general consensus that we’ve made major progress, that the surge has worked. That’s been a major success. RADDATZ: Two-third of Americans say it’s not worth fighting. CHENEY: So? RADDATZ So? You don’t care what the American people think? CHENEY: No. I think … [Read more…]
My buddy Shane decided to stop into Guatemala for 5 days on his way to Belize so I decided to take him and my family to Rabinal for the day yesterday. I had never been there before. Salamá is on the way, so we stopped in and walked around the central park. We got to … [Read more…]
I am a French Canadian living in Guatemala, but currently weekending in Honduras, reading a British news site about the death of a Pakistani politician who was assassinated by her own countrymen or Saudi Arabs based in Afghanistan who used to be funded by the American CIA.
Yesterday Guatemalan went to the polls for a second time to vote for the two candidates in the presidential run-off. No one got more than 50% of the vote in the general election, so the top two candidates campaign for another 6 weeks. The orange guy lost and the green guy won. Speaking with most … [Read more…]
“You gotta be pretty bold to think that mankind is going to destroy what God has created. The earth is way above us. The only way the earth is going to be destroyed is when God says in His word when He turns it loose, when He makes a new heaven and a new earth. … [Read more…]
International Blogger’s Day for Burma
Today is election day which means only one thing to me: NO MORE PEOPLE CAMPAIGNING! What is most fascinating to me is how little the leaders focus on platform. They just want to make a lot of noise and get their face on everything that a paper can stick to. Here is an example of … [Read more…]
Huh? What’s that all about eh? This morning a plane flew over Tactic and unloaded a kazillion leaflets over the town. It’s campaign time (has been for months). These leaflets do not contain any information aside from the names of the presidential candidate one of the local reps and the name and symbol of their … [Read more…]