we drove out to a pueblo in the mountains. maybe 1.5hrs, maybe to 9,000ft? everyone had been displaced by Hurricane Stan last year, so they were starting from scratch.
They have no clean water, minimal sanitation, no electricity. Most everyone speaks Quiche out in these towns (one of the 26 Mayan languages in Guatemala), so it's all body language. Pop Wuj gives scholarships to some of the kids, and a doctor runs a weekly clinic with American medical students who are in Xela to learn Spanish. It's beautiful, so high up and really just forest and hills rolling out to the coast. We walked out to where the last house was situated and, we could hear music playing on battery powered radios in nearly every home.
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