Opportunities In Guatemala

I studied many things about Guatemala such as, the culture, religion, food, population, geography, imports, exports, and most popular of all sports. The sports of Guatemala is something I found very interesting.

The Guatemalan Revolution was on October 1944 and it forced the resignation of Jorge Ubico. He was the President of Guatemala in the previous thirteen years. Ubico's government was a fear period in the country and it was called the “peace on the cemeteries”

Many people migrate from their country and go to the U.S. There are many reasons why people do this. Lack of job opportunity, poverty, diseases, tends to push people to leave the country. For example, in the movie “El Norte,” Rosa and Enrique, the brother and sister, lived in Guatemala, where they lived under the Mayan time. Guatemala isn’t a modern country. It doesn’t have electricity or advanced farming tools or fancy houses or flushing toilets. Life is difficult there. The poor work as farmers, but are paid very little. They are extremely poor and if they try to fight for their rights, the government kills them.

You may think that there is nothing fun to do in Guatemala, but you may be surprised. Guatemala city is home to many things such as: Petapa Amusment Park, mercado central, and Jardin Botanico. Petpa park is a fun place to vist because you would be able to visit plaza de estrellas, plaza arcoiris, and so many more things. So if you're looking for a fun place to visit with children Petpa park is the place to visit. Definitaly visit Mercado Central if you're looking for some authenic gualemalan food or crafts, mercado central is the perfect place to visit at the end of your trip if you need to pick up some gifts for family or just as a small memento. Last but not least Jardin Botanico. Jardin Botanico is exacatally what it sounds like! Jardin

A mother's role plays an important part in Guatemalan families. The mothers eat less food so that their kids can eat more. Women eat Chirmol in most communities, it is a (cooked, mashed tomato with some salt), pasta, a rice or oatmeal based drink, and sometimes beans. Mothers in indigenous communities usually give birth at home not at a hospital. A child is five times more likely to die before their fifth birthday in Guatemala than in the United States. 9 out of 10 rural schools don't have books for education. 50% of Guatemalans, mostly rural indigenous, live in inadequate houses. Girls in Guatemala have the least access to education. Over a million houses in Guatemala are cobbled together with cornstalks, cane, and scavenged materials.

Food insecurity can be defined as the lack of access to adequate food, limited by money and other resources. Guatemalan people are unfortunately a perfect example of people living with food insecurities. With majority of the population living in poverty and the country as a whole often experiencing draught and less than ideal weather conditions, many adults and children are malnourished and the children are mostly stunted. Guatemala is currently facing a interesting malnutrition problem. Malnutrition in Guatemala is affecting localized farmers outside of the city.

Cape Verde's economy is vulnerable and depends on developmental aid and foreign investment heavily. Although they depend on developmental aid heavily, Cape Verde has been able to have notable economic growth and improvement in living conditions, which has garnered them international recognition. For the last ten years, the UN has classified Cape Verde as a developing nation rather than a least developed country.

In this chapter the author describes the religious impact specifically Catholic Church on the politics of Guatemala; while Catholic influence was strong in Guatemala, the church had to work to keep out other religious influences such as Protestantism. The primary source is about archbishop Oscar Romero, he taken aback by the death of his friend who died at the hand of the government security forces; in his speech he says while there is a lot of suffering in the country, in the end God has a plan for all of us, he encourages the people to work for reform and freedom; he also pleads to the soldiers to stop killing because the message that comes from God is something they should follow over any order given by a government.

Land ownership and distribution are extremely unequal in Guatemala. This is immensely unfair because “2% of landowners hold 65% of the arable land”("Guatemala Country"). Due to these extreme numbers, the distribution of land “is one of the most unequal in the hemisphere” ("Guatemala Country"). As a result of this, lower-class citizens have no way of earning money other than taking a, usually laborious and low-paying, job. Not only is this causing a low quality of life for many Guatemalans, this is also contributing greatly the chronic poverty in Guatemala.

The United States for years has been a country full of opportunities. Because of the freedoms, the United States is a country full of many different types of people with their own cultures and different views of life. A reason for this is that, the United States is promoted as an interwoven country. The United States is the land of opportunities, but it can also be big in diversity and exclude others because of their culture or just because of the fact that people are not the same skin color. The color of one’s skin can also predict what opportunities people have in life. The United States may have a pluralistic society, but it can also be the most diverse country. Everyone in the United States no matter which race wants to achieve the American

America is seen as the land of endless opportunity, the place where anything can happen. To some people, you can come to America with nothing but the clothes on your back and you can become the greatest person in the world. To a select group of people, however, it can be trial after trial with no payoff. Some may see America as an opportunity country, but only if you are a certain race. If you are any type of race besides Caucasian, chances are that it can be a struggle because most of the opportunities are given to the whites because they are seen as the “superior race”, so they try to support each other and keep the others out.

Food security is defined as when all people have access to enough safe and healthy food to fit the preferences and needs of each person for a healthy life. Food sovereignty is one’s right to both nutritious and culturally appropriate food through ecologically safe methods. This means that even if people have food to eat, it does not necessarily mean they have food security nor food sovereignty (Rosenberger 2012:17). This also means that in a country, the poor must have as much access to nutritious and culturally relevant food as the wealthy in order to have true food security and sovereignty.

My biggest fear was the decision of whether to stay in Guatemala with my mother and sister, or move to the US with my father to seek better opportunities. One decision meant keeping the usual deposits from my father, while the other involved a cut in half of this child support. The harsh choice to leave my mother with a living spend of 500$ a month or stay in Guatemala and somehow convince my father to keep on sending 1000$. Both of these horrified me to no extent, but a decision had to be made. I did not have any other options, but only to decide between my mother’s warm and familiar wing, and my father’s cold and unfamiliar presence. Luckily, maturity sprouted out of my chest as a butterfly out of a cocoon, and I concluded that sacrifice

Although Guatemala struggles with high rates of poverty, crime, and instability, they are experiencing economic growth, specifically in the tourism industry, which is one of the main sources of economic growth. Guatemala receives roughly two million tourists annually.

Coca-Cola has been around for many generations and is a well- known product throughout the globe. Breaking into a new area where it may be not as familiar with the citizens of Cuba is a new position that Coca-Cola hasn’t been as accustomed to in recent history. Now that the embargo between the United States and Cuba has been lifted and the Obama Administration has been lifted there is an opportunity for Coca-Cola to re-enter the market (as discussed earlier). These opportunities include hotels and resorts, places Americans may be staying, giving them a familiar product that they are custom to. The other opportunities are the Cuban natives and being a big contributor to the Cuban past times such as baseball.