Links
Hospitalito Atitlán
Hurricane Stan
- Hospitalito Atitlán volunteer Dr. Mark Lepore’s firsthand account of the mudslide [pdf, 2333k]
- Santiago Atitlán, October 5, 2005 Mudslide
- NPR: Mudslides claim all in Guatemalan village (October 9, 2005)
- BBC: ‘Buried alive in a river of mud’ (October 10, 2005)
- BBC: Guatemala villages ‘mass graves’ (October 10, 2005)
- NPR: Mudslides kill hundreds in Guatemala (October 10, 2005)
- BBC: Guatemala Mayan town under threat (October 13, 2005)
- NPR: Guatemala presses on with grim hurricane recovery (October 13, 2005)
- BBC: Hospital hope for mudslide town (October 23, 2005)
- BBC: Painful legacy of Guatemala storm (October 5, 2006)
- NPR: One year later, Guatemala still reeling from Stan (October 24, 2006)
- NPR: Storm Victims' Remains Exhumed in Guatemala (January 30, 2007)
- NPR: Unearthing the Future: Return to Panabaj (January 30, 2007)
Santiago Atitlán
- Satellite photo of Santiago Atitlán
- Santiago Atitlán website: extensive information about the geography, history, culture, weaving, and art of Santiago Atitlán, in English and Spanish.
- Father Rother index: the story of US Catholic missionary Fr. Stanley Francis (“A’plas” in Tz’utujil) Rother’s life and work in Santiago Atitlán, and his assassination by the Guatemalan Army on July 28, 1981. Fr. Rother was instrumental in founding Clinica Santiaguito, the predecessor to Hospitalito Atitlán.
- Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala- a human rights victory: the story of the massacre of 13 Atitecos by the Guatemalan Army on December 1, 1990, and the subsequent expulsion of the Army from Santiago Atitlán. Soon after, the Clinica Santiaguito was abandoned.
- Weaving the fabric of the cosmos: a fascinating analysis of the altarpiece of Santiago Atitlán and its relationship to traditional Tz’utujil Maya cosmology
- Asociación Cojolyá: an organization of weavers dedicated to preserving backstrap loom weaving traditions in Santiago Atitlán.
- Maya Textiles of Lake Atitlán: Santiago Atitlán
- Arte Maya Tz’utuhil: promotes the work of artists from the Tz’utujil communities of Chicacao, San Juan La Laguna, San Pedro La Laguna, and Santiago Atitlán.
- Discos Atitlán: a record cooperative that produces traditional music from Santiago Atitlán.
- Ethnologue report for Eastern Tz’utujil: statistics on the language spoken in Santiago Atitlán. Note that Ethnologue considers the Tz’utujil spoken in San Pedro La Laguna and other communities a separate language (“Western Tz’utujil”), and it is this variant on which most published grammars and dictionaries of Tz’utujil are based.
- Status of the endemic Atitlán grebe of Guatemala: documents the extinction of the poc, a flightless bird that once lived on Lake Atitlán. Francisco Chiyal Quiejú, the Tz’utujil narrator for the GHI video project, was a research assistant for this study.
Around Lake Atitlán
Guatemalan Indigenous Languages
Health in Guatemala
Human Rights in Guatemala