How A Maya Leader Uses Ancestral Wisdom to Heal

Like many others, 66-year-old Mayan Rosalina Tuyuc has been scarred by Guatemala’s decades-long civil conflict that officially ended in 1996, but from which the country has yet to recover. Raised Catholic, she has now learned to also look to her ancestors’ Indigenous spirituality for healing and answers.

Latin America, NewsMaria MartinAugust 11, 2022Maria Martin, Mayan women, Maya healers, indigenous healing, indigenous spirituality, cosmovision, Guetemala, RechargeComment

Remembering Sister Dianna Ortiz, Survivor And Advocate Against Torture

Maria Martin, an independent journalist based in Guatemala, offers this remembrance of the late Sister Dianna Ortiz, a remarkable woman who used her horrific experience as a torture survivor in Guatemala in the 1980s to fight for human rights and educate about the use of torture globally — even while suffering the trauma of her experience until her death in February 2021.

Catholicism, Christianity, Latin AmericaMaria MartinFebruary 21, 2022Maria Martin, Dianna Ortiz, Sister Dianna Ortiz, Guatemala, torture victims, Christianity, Catholicism, Ursuline nun, Primary Feature, Secondary Feature Comment

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