In reply to Mercedes Brugh.

These are good questions. Usually cafes determine if it's permissible to download programs or not. A lot of places just don't allow downloading. However, we've found Guatemalan internet cafes, like lots of other sectors in Guatemalan society, to have pretty lax rules. Most internet cafes have entirely virus ridden computers, crazy settings and porno pop-ups. It's going to take a lot of monitoring by Pedro to keep his computers clean--in many senses of the word--and up and running. We've both been happy that our personal pcs are macs as every time we've plugged our usb's into public computers they come away carrying a ton of viruses and these viruses can't attack macs unless they're specifically programed to do so, which hasn't yet been the case here. I think a lot of people that run the cafes don't even know how to keep them clean. There are a lot of information gaps here, and this is just one of them--once you get the computers, how do you care for them. Luckily for Pedro, Fletch can help him out with quite a few things while we're here. He's already spent a lot of time helping Pedro understand the pc he has at home.