Why Doesn’t the T-Shirt Exporter Pay, While the Coffee Exporter Does?
Anyone in Guatemala who wanted to buy something as simple as imported chocolate, before 1986, had three doors available. The Comisariato Militar, if you had a military ID and knew someone inside: a “passport to paradise” of imported consumer goods. Selectas or Exclusivas, if you had the money of the capital’s upper class. For everyone […]
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.