Why Do We Forget That Guatemala Shakes?
Guatemala has documented devastating earthquakes for nearly five centuries, yet the memory of disaster fades remarkably quickly. Fifty years after the 1976 earthquake, this essay revisits the country’s seismic history and asks an uncomfortable question: if we know the ground will shake again, why are we still unprepared?
Why Does No One Connect Through Guatemala?
Guatemala sits between two oceans and at the heart of the Americas, yet for centuries it has functioned more as the end of the line than as a crossroads. This essay traces that history from the ports of the Kingdom of Guatemala to La Aurora International Airport and asks what it would take to turn geography into connectivity.