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Bite size highlights from 2025: Guatemala, Central America

January 26, 2026 • Anthony James • Season 9 • Episode 289

Our curtain-raiser series of bite size highlights drawn from the 2025 wrap up episode concludes with this incredibly special and personal group of episodes, from the heart of Mayan culture, Guatemala, Central America.

This was actually the first series recorded in 2025, but took a lot more time to produce given the episodes released in both Spanish and English. And it was so worth it.

Here are the voices, places and tunes you're hearing:

0m - Salta Montes, by Migra (from Artlist) (eps 285-8)

0.21 - Patrik Mucía (ep 285 and in Spanish), at IMAP, by Lago de Atitlán

0.59 - Don Ceferino de Paz González (ep 286 and in Spanish), Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, Alta Verapaz

1.24 - Cándido Reyes (ep 287 and in Spanish), La Nueva Libertad

1.40 - Aníbal de Paz (ep 288 and in Spanish), Lago Petén Itzá

2.06 - Regeneration, by Amelia Barden (theme music)

3.25 - Out-take with my translator in Baltimore, Dana Scott

Title image: view of the nearby volcano from the tour at IMAP (pic: Olivia Cheng)

To access all episodes, including the full 2025 highlights package in ep 289, head to the website (where there’ll often be photos with each episode), or wherever you get your podcasts.

With thanks to our wonderful guests and the musicians who generously granted permission for their music to be heard here.

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Patrik Mucía: 0:22

Well, during this time, the music that I like the most is the music of nature. Like these birds. When I have traveled to other places that are more urban. One misses the sound of nature and you think. But I want to take care of it all of us can continue to hear it.

Don Ceferino de Paz González: 1:01

Maintain the equilibrium. When I talk about being optimistic, I maintain the equilibrium emotionally, physically, because uh when losing the equilibrium, then you get agitated, and you get agitated in vain.

Cándido Reyes: 1:36

It's truly a benchmark, even in football.

Anibal de Paz: 1:42

If I jump in and I give my opinion, I know I'm gonna tell them the truth to their faces. But that's going to change the way I want to see my life right now. I don't know if the word exists or is correct. Neutrality. Thank you. And this will conclude our Guatemala series. Um, if you require any re recordings, please uh inform your voice as an editor.