When you sit down at Marimbas Guatemalan Bakery & Restaurant with a piping hot cup of coffee and a champurrada (a traditional sesame seed cookie), you’ll be struck at how homey and familial the place ...

Not many people know it, but the Hass avocado, favorite of Californians, has its humble beginnings in Guatemala. Introduced to the Golden State by chief agronomist of the United Fruit Company, Wilson ...

The Student Organization of Latines—an organization dedicated to empowering Columbia’s Latine community through social, cultural, and academic initiatives—hosted its annual Noche de Orgullo on Jan. 31 ...

This is New Guatemalan cuisine, a Mesoamerican culinary movement that’s been brewing for the past couple of decades. The effort has exploded in recent years thanks to a new generation of ...

Festival Chapín Los Angeles — a celebration of Guatemalan culture including arts and crafts, food, dance and music, in particular marimba music Kicked off on on Saturday along seven blocks of ...

If you didn’t know, Livingston is where Garifuna culture still exists in Guatemala, in Central America. Garifuna settlements exist in Honduras, Belize and Nicaragua on the Caribbean coast. The little- ...

Guatemala’s culture and it’s Mayan ancestry will be celebrated this weekend in a lively festival that’s expected to attract thousands to Lafayette Park in Los Angeles. The ninth annual Festival Chapin ...

For years, Carolina Fuentes dreamed of owning a restaurant where she could give the Central Coast a taste of Central America. Fuentes, who was born and raised in Guatemala, moved to Atascadero 20 ...