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If Job were a country, it would have to be Guatemala. Sure, there are other countries in worse shape—Haiti comes to mind, and Somalia and Rwanda and Afghanistan and...
made popular Nov 2 2010
How much is six dollars and fifty cents? What can you buy with $6.50? Just off the top of my head, in the U.S., I’m thinking I could buy a couple gallons of gas,...
made popular Oct 21 2010
The widow of a Guatemalan immigrant shot to death by a Los Angeles police officer says her family hopes to get justice.
made popular Sep 22 2010
Three former soldiers will go on trial for the 1982 massacre of more than 250 people, a judge ruled on Wednesday in the first such court case in Guatemala for crimes...
made popular Sep 9 2010
Mexican officials said Monday they were holding six former Guatemalan soldiers suspected of links to the Zetas, a drug cartel blamed for a wave of violence and...
made popular Sep 7 2010
Torrential rains and landslides in Guatemala have killed at least 37 people, and could claim as many as 100 lives, the country’s emergency services agency said...
made popular Sep 6 2010
U.S. and Guatemalan archaeologists have found an unusually well-preserved burial chamber that they believe is the tomb of the founder of a Maya dynasty, a find that...
made popular Jul 28 2010
Violence continues unabated in Guatemala, where at least 23 people, including six women and a girl, died in one day this weekend, the press reported Sunday, citing...
made popular Jul 12 2010
The Dos Erres massacre in 1982 was one of the worst mass killings during the Guatemalan civil war. Over three days a group of seventeen elite soldiers ransacked a...
made popular Jul 9 2010
A Sudanese prisoner accused of guarding Osama bin Laden and helping him escape U.S. forces in Afghanistan pleaded guilty at Guantanamo on Wednesday, giving the Obama...
made popular Jul 8 2010
The Guatemalan government says the latest in a series of gruesome murders will not make it give in to demands by gangs to loosen prison rules.
On Monday, a female...
made popular Jun 30 2010
Guatemala will need five years to rebuild the infrastructure damaged by Tropical Storm Agatha, which hit the Central American country last month, President Alvaro Colom...
made popular Jun 14 2010
Four decapitated heads were found in prominent areas of the capital Thursday in what police said were likely revenge killings in response to a crackdown on organized...
made popular Jun 12 2010
Huddled together high on a neighbouring hill, this little group have an incredible view of the exploding Pacaya volcano in Guatemala.
Others clutching umbrellas watch...
made popular Jun 7 2010
Guatemala City residents have been warned to prepare for further sinkholes after a natural disaster swallowed an entire crossroads and a three-storey textile factory...
made popular Jun 4 2010
Sinkholes are quite common occurrences in the world. But most go without notice since they are usual matters that appear either where no one notices, or in some...
made popular Jun 2 2010
Agatha, the first named storm of the 2010 Pacific hurricane season, slammed into the Guatemalan coast near the border with Mexico on Saturday.
At least 83 people died...
made popular May 31 2010
Thousands of people were evacuated and airports were closed as two volcanos erupted in Guatemala and Ecuador Friday, choking major cities with ash, and leaving two...
made popular May 29 2010
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A Mexican national was sentenced to 60 years in prison for his involvement in the November 2008 slaughter of 19 drug traffickers, a spokesman for the Guatemalan Supreme...
made popular May 21 2010
Jack Newfield, the legendary investigative reporter, once wrote that if government officials had their way, journalists would be “stenographers with...
made popular May 8 2010
Police in Guatemala say a 13-year-old boy has confessed to shooting a woman to death for a payment of about $12.50.
The National Police say the suspect was carrying...
made popular Apr 17 2010
The deputy head of logistics for Guatemala’s PNC national police was arrested on corruption charges and the country’s erstwhile interior minister has been declared...
made popular Mar 12 2010
Guatemala. The capture of the Guatemalan Police Director, Baltazar Gómez and Police Antinarcotics Director, Nelly Bonilla today, also the capture of numerous...
made popular Mar 6 2010
The arrests of Guatemala’s drug czar and national police chief underscore how deeply the world’s multibillion-dollar drug industry can corrupt small...
made popular Mar 6 2010
Guatemala’s chief of national police and the country’s top anti-drugs official have been arrested over alleged links to drug trafficking.
Attorney General...
made popular Mar 3 2010
At least 13 farmworkers were killed and 17 others injured in a traffic accident over the weekend on a highway in northern Guatemala, the fire department said on...
made popular Feb 2 2010
Guatemalan police on Sunday sought to arrest former president Alfonso Portillo after the United States filed an extradition request to have him answer to...
made popular Jan 25 2010
A strong earthquake has rocked Guatemala and parts of El Salvador, but no there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage in either country.
made popular Jan 19 2010
A lawyer who left a videotape saying Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom would be responsible if anything happened to him masterminded his own death last year, a special...
made popular Jan 13 2010
When the adoption business was booming here, American couples came by the thousands.
They flocked to the dozens of privately run children’s homes or to lawyers’...
made popular Dec 24 2009
Bus driver Mynor Gonzalez ignored the threats: “200 quetzales a week, or we’ll kill you.” He knew drivers who didn’t pay the roughly $24...
made popular Dec 21 2009
Stripped naked to the waist, she begs for mercy as she is savagely beaten by a lynch mob in the middle of the street.
Alejandra Maria Torres was part of an armed gang...
made popular Dec 16 2009
Customs inspectors at Dulles International Airport say a man from Guatemala was detained after he tried to carry a cooked chicken stuffed with more than $4,000 worth of...
made popular Dec 8 2009
They’re called “calaqueros” — skullmongers — and they make a living off Guatemala City’s infamously high murder rate.
They chase...
made popular Nov 30 2009
Police say a mob in Guatemala burned to death two men and a woman suspected of killing a local bus driver.
Photos show the half-burned bodies lying in a street in the...
made popular Nov 28 2009
Sandra doesn’t go outside after dark anymore. She lives in one of this city’s most notorious areas, where rival gangs have turned streets into war zones.
“It was...
made popular Nov 24 2009
Guatemalan and US authorities have seized a makeshift submarine loaded with cocaine with a US street value of US $200,000,000.
made popular Oct 23 2009
Many of those children ended up in the United States, as well as Sweden, Italy and France, said the report’s author and lead investigator, Marco Tulio...
made popular Sep 12 2009
Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom has declared a “state of public calamity” to try to mobilise funding to tackle severe food shortages in the...
made popular Sep 10 2009
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A resident rides on a cycle rickshaw at the Guatemala-Mexico border crossing in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, Tuesday, April 28, 2009. Cuba suspended flights to and from Mexico on Tuesday, becoming the first country to impose a travel ban, as the fast-moving...
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