By Hannah Frazer, former BTS Intern What do you see? As of a few weeks ago, I would have answered similarly to the same small voice that has likely just gone off in your head looking at these three photos—a house with a porch, a field of flowers, [...]
By: Nitya Ramírez, BTS intern (2025) I returned from Rabinal a month ago, but in many ways I am still there. Four months is not a long time in the abstract. But it is long enough to build routines, to learn people’s names, to recognize faces on the street, to [...]
Former BTS Interns working with our partners at the Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute, the New Hope Foundation, and the Rabinal Community Legal Clinic. Apply to be a BTS Intern Applications for the Atlantic Council for International Cooperation’s (ACIC) International Youth Internship Program will open in early February — and BTS [...]
I came to Guatemala for a placement connected to rural and Indigenous agriculture, and although my time with the Campesino Committee of the Highlands (CCDA) gave me a starting point, most of what I learned came directly from the farmers and community members themselves. It was in their fields, kitchens, [...]
Anonymity doesn’t really exist here in the way I’ve come to know it growing up in Canadian cities. Rabinal boasts a vibrant sense of community. Sometimes it feels like everyone knows each other, a fact which can be both beautiful and overwhelming. Connecting with one person means connecting with their [...]
As I sit here reflecting on my time in Rabinal with a cup of sweet black coffee in hand listening to the cacophony of roosters, there is one word that comes to mind as emblematic of my experience: curiosity. It’s hard to believe how quickly the 88 days since my [...]
Garnet Rogers Benefit Concert for BTS in Antigonish Garnet Rogers benefit concert on Sunday, October 19th, 7pm: Celebrating 35 years of Breaking the Silence at the St. James United Church (197 Main St. Antigonish) Press release: ANTIGONISH, NS, October 9, 2025 — Garnet Rogers, Canadian folk music icon, will perform [...]
Maritimes Speaking Tour: Canada Must Respect Indigenous Self-Determination photo credit: MiningWatch Canada Please join BTS as we welcome two Xinka women leaders, Marisol Guerra and Marta Muñoz to the Maritimes to raise awareness about their struggle for self-determination. In May 2025, the Xinka Indigenous People of Guatemala [...]
Leocadio Juracán released on bail but the struggle for justice continues Leocadio with his lawyers on August 18th following the trial in Izabal. Photo credit: CCDA Last Wednesday, August 13th, 2025, Leocadio Juracán, campesino activist and agrarian reform coordinator for the Campesino Committee of the Highlands (CCDA), was [...]
Cooperant update: A Meditation on Justice and Memory in Rabinal By: Marina Luro, Rabinal Community Legal Clinic Cooperant Since arriving at the Rabinal Community Legal Clinic (ABJP), I have frequently reflected on what justice means. In Canadian law schools, and I imagine law schools in most of the Global North, [...]
