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A new book gets inside Guatemala’s international adoption industry and the complicated context of deciding a child’s welfare.

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When anti-corruption candidate Bernardo Arévalo won Guatemala’s presidency in August, his urban supporters took to the streets in celebration. Two months later, they are still there, not in celebration but in protest against challenges to Arévalo’s election led by the country’s attorney general. This month, the protests went national when Indigenous authorities called a strike demanding the attorney general’s resignation. The participation of Guatemala’s marginalized Indigenous peopl...

At trials for crimes against humanity, some of the most eloquent testimony comes not from survivors but from skeletons:...

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Researchers found thousands of other items, but the skeletal remains of the monkey point to the earliest evidence of primate captivity, translocation, and gift diplomacy between Teotihuacán and Mayan elite.

Spider monkeys were considered exotic curiosities in pre-Hispanic Mexico. The find is the earliest sign of primate captivity and Mayan gift diplomacy.

Skeletal remains of the monkey point to the earliest evidence of primate captivity, translocation, and gift diplomacy

The complete skeletal remains of a spider monkey — seen as an exotic curiosity in pre-Hispanic Mexico — grants researchers new evidence regarding social-political ties between two ancient powerhouses: Teotihuacán and Maya Indigenous rulers.