The Currency of TimeChapter 3
APRIL 17, 2009 Luis gave me a nod from behind the bar. It was a Friday, but a lot of the regulars hadn't shown up. Guatemala and particularly the port cities like Puerto Barrios on the Gulf of Honduras and Pacific sides were hurting. The American Depression of 2008 could be called a Recession in the U.S. but it was a full fledged 1930s Great Depression in the Central American economies. A lot of the shipping business that brought money and jobs into Puerto Barrios had dried up. Bars...