Guatemala, a Feast of Maya Legacies

Social organizations in Guatemala are celebrating the entry into effect of a family planning law that will usher sex education into the country’s classrooms and will facilitate access to birth control methods, a victory against the country’s high birth and maternal and infant mortality rates. In Guatemala, approximately 20% of the women who are still in adolescence become unwed mothers due to socio-cultural patterns and the idiosyncrasy of the villages, especially in the rural areas.