The Luis de Lión Project is located in the San Juan del Obispo community in Antigua Guatemala. In 2004, Mayarí de León, daughter of the Kaqchikel poet who was kidnapped and disappeared in 1984, turned the family home into a museum about the poet and educator’s life, a library and a school for the arts, thereby contributing to her father’s dream that all of the children of Guatemala have access to education and artistic training, saying, “He wanted there to be a library in every corner of the world.” The project’s main objectives are to turn children into ambassadors of peace and love of life, supporting them through reading, poetry, music and other forms of artistic expression, all steeped in gender equality and historical memory. It is a way of fighting different forms of inequality, racism, impunity and violence, structural problems in Guatemalan society, which thousands of men and women, kidnapped and disappeared during the Internal Armed Conflict, struggled against.1
Location: 4ta calle oriente #4 San Juan del Obispo, Guatemala.
Contact Information: +502 7830 6651; info@luisdelion.org
Website: https://luisdelion.org
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 10 to 16h, Tour: Q50.
1PBI Guatemala, The Power of Words: Luis de Lión’s Legacy and the Diario Militar - Death Squad Dossier - Case, PBI Guatemala, Bulletin 46, December 2021.