A quick roundup of posts published to xeni.net/trek, while the electricity holds out. Howdy from what’s probably the only internet connection in this part of the Petén jungle. I’m traveling in Guatemala for a month, working on a series of stories in various places here, and maintaining an online journal with quick notes (and video and photos) from the road.
* Thousands of women protest wave of “femicides”
* Guatemala and bandwidth policy reform
* Murders of transgender/transvestite people on the rise