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In Guatemalan society, boys are encouraged to pursue and receive a formal education, whereas girls' education is not prioritized because they must help their mothers with domestic duties. [10] Since the girls adapt to restricted lifestyles, their educational opportunities grow limited, and they conform to their gender roles. [ 11 ]
CONAVIGUA's mission has been to support the families and victims of gender and racial oppression in Guatemala, primarily focusing on widows and orphans of women who were kidnapped and killed. [7] [8] The agency promotes advocacy for justice, particularly for the Mayan people who were disproportionately affected by the Guatemalan Genocide.
Guatemala is a multicultural society, though most Guatemalans have varying degrees of European (predominantly Spaniards) and Amerindian ancestry. Guatemalans are also colloquially nicknamed C hapines in other Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America .
More than 10,000 children have been deported from the U.S. and Mexico back to Guatemala. Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service has opened a new office in Guatemala City to help them.
Luisa Moreno (August 30, 1907 – November 4, 1992) was a Guatemalan social activist and participant in the United States labor movement.She unionized workers, led strikes, wrote pamphlets in both English and Spanish, and convened the 1939 Congreso de Pueblos de Habla Española, the "first national Latino civil rights assembly", [1] before returning to Guatemala in 1950.
Paula Nicho Cumez (born 1955), is a Mayan-Guatemalan artist. Cumez is inspired by Mayan tradition and culture and focuses on expressing the context of native women’s experience in her artwork; additionally, Cumez is inspired by the Popol Vuh; Andrés Curruchich (1891–1969), Guatemalan painter of the Kaqchikel people
Guatemala also has an almost five-century-old tradition of art music, spanning from the first liturgical chant and polyphony, introduced in 1524 to contemporary art music. Much of the music composed in Guatemala from the 16th century to the 19th century has only recently been unearthed by scholars and is being revived by performers.
Rigoberta Menchú was born to a poor Indigenous family of K'iche' Maya descent in Laj Chimel, a rural area in the north-central Guatemalan province of El Quiché. [5] Her family was one of many Indigenous families who could not sustain themselves on the small pieces of land they were left with after the Spanish conquest of Guatemala. [6]