They call it the “green hunger.” Here in the mountains of central Guatemala, one of the world’s top exporters of sugar and bananas, vegetation is everywhere and yet the people are starving.
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This week MexicoReporter.com will be publishing a series of extracts from David Lida’s book “First Stop in the New World.”
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Pasteleria Suiza in the middle to upper class Condesa neighborhood in Mexico City put its own spin on the traditional Rosca de Reyes.
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