Rachel Nolan: In the Best Interest of the Child
A new book gets inside Guatemala’s international adoption industry and the complicated context of deciding a child’s welfare.
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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 peoples in nationwide protests holds both peril and promise. Instability in the impoverished rural hinter...
At trials for crimes against humanity, some of the most eloquent testimony comes not from survivors but from skeletons:...