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  • bees

    Today we met with the cooperative presidents from the Unión Apícola. We made great progress forward, at least in planning the next steps, for them to bring their product to market. I…

  • field research on products / investigación del campo en productos

    In English 8.8.2008. Summary of the feedback from Marcos Cante (36, Señor, Quintana Roo) and Herbé Chim Ake (41, Miuxupip, Yucatán) about the projects for the public good – products of the…

  • empowerment / empoderamiento

    Friday we continued working on the website for xyaat.com. In the afternoon Marcos Cante came into Carrillo and we presented a short training session to show him how he could work with…

  • xyaat

    Wednesday we had a 6 hour meeting at Cooperativa Xyaat in Señor. Among their many projects, Xyaat works in communitarian tourism which is focused on sharing modern Maya culture with others. A…

  • packing. monday night

    For so many reasons, this is the first time I am heading back to Yucatán since January of this year. I am going with Gaby. We’re flying JetBlue from Orlando direct to…

  • selector de frecuencias / tijuana, bc radio

    Selector de frecuencias is a one hour weekly radio show based in Tijuana, Mexico. We play music from now and yesterday: punk, no wave, new wave & next wave; folk, electronica, post…

  • entrega de diplomas

    this photo makes me so happy. in it gustavo (from teabo, yucatán) receives his diploma in comunicación social from the rector of uady. in two of my classes last year, gustavo was…

  • honey in valladolid

    bees love honey too.

    We see that bees love honey too. Here they devour a squash dessert that has been soaked in honey. The image is from this past weekend when I was in Valladolid working on the honey project. My friend Herbe Chim Ake recorded the 1.5 hour meeting which was mostly in Maya, except for a few Spanish words here and there. President of Lol-Kanchunub Cooperative, Raul Ché Puc, spoke about the need to earn a fair wage for their honey and our project to bring the honey to an international market.

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  • immigration project

    Project online here: www.mariarogal.com/sdam/. I recently finished compiling work I completed with INDEMAYA in Yucatán in a web presentation. The compilation is for the art faculty exhibit at the University of Florida…

  • programa nacional de turismo 2007–2012

    Mérida, Mayor Bojorquez said, should be the pride of México. Carolina Cárdenas Sosa focused on what she called the “sexenio de turismo” meaning that the focus of President Calderon’s administration, a six-year term, would be tourism – primarily cultural tourism as a way to generate more riches for our people. Patron Laviada, outgoing Governor of Yucatán, the last to speak in the morning session, mentioned several times that tourism was the motor for economic development in the region. Our “gran ventaja es la cultura Maya” (great advantage is Maya culture). While he did mention that the Maya culture lives, he was one of many who focused on Maya culture in the past and one of the new 7 wonders – Chichén Itzá.