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The sister of a Guatemalan congressman was charged Wednesday with running an illegal adoption ring after police found nine children in her home.
Authorities say a Guatemalan congressman’s sister has been charged with human trafficking after police found nine children in her home awaiting illegal adoption.
Guatemala’s attorney general on Monday said 2,286 pending foreign adoptions have been placed on hold for at least a month while officials review related paperwork.
Guatemala’s attorney general on Monday said 2,286 pending foreign adoptions have been placed on hold for at least a month while officials review related paperwork.
A Guatemalan official says that 2,286 pending adoptions will be suspended for at least a month while officials review related paperwork.
Guatemalan prosecutors said Wednesday that they will conduct a legal review of all of the country’s pending adoptions, after an initial probe turned up irregularities.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 has hit in southwestern Guatemala. Authorities say there are no immediate reports of injuries or major damage.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 has hit in southwestern Guatemala. Authorities say there are no immediate reports of injuries or major damage.
Gunmen killed a former top government security adviser in Guatemala early Tuesday, a week after he was fired by President Alvaro Colom amid complaints he had become too powerful.
Police say at least nine people have been killed and seven wounded in a shootout in eastern Guatemala that is likely tied to drug traffickers.
Wind energy is the theme of the day here. Actually it is not, but the spectacular wind structure that I saw earlier today was so amazing that it almost convinces you that nothing else can steal the show for the day. Well, the day is almost drawing to a...
A contest, sponsored by Specialized bicycles and Google, has quite a hard-hitting theme: Innovate or Die. The purpose of the contest was to showcase inventions in machines that used the energy generated by pedaling a bike to power something. A total...
Religious places like temples have been tourist attractions for ages. The fabulous architecture that they display is simply breathtaking to see. Tikal located in the northern Guatemala is one such city where the temple architecture is the main...
Guatemala is Central America’s most violent country and is also one of the region’s poorest. But which is more important: eradicating crime or wiping out poverty? That’s the tough question that voters in the country would have to answer when they...
Scarlet Macaw in Natural Habitat
The exotic Scarlet Macaw is native to the South American tropical lowlands. Concentrated in the jungles of Guatemala, the Macaws are also found in isolated populations across Central America and in the Amazon basin....
A tremor rocked the Central American state Guatemala. The earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale also affected parts of neighboring El Salvador generating landslides in many parts of the surrounding region.
The earthquake brought a...
The much debated ‘Immigration Reform Laws’ came to haunt George Bush even during his tour of the Central American countries.
The present immigration rules in the US are termed tough by many. Several thousand illegal immigrants, mostly from the...
The US president George Bush has faced a number of demonstrations and protests by groups in the countries of Latin America throughout his five-day official tour in these countries.
Bush will arrive at Guatemala on Sunday night as part of his itinerary...
The condition of women and girls in Guatemala is worse. Hunger is spreading its tentacles and capturing thousands of children in its ambit day by day. The vast majority of them die in situations that never make the news. Their plight is serious, but too...
Kids in Guatemala have lost their innocence, they are not afraid of murdering anyone. Is it because of the social set up or is the product of their own mental make up, it’s hard to differentiate.
There are apparent cases where the minors are carrying...
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A man carries potatoes at a central food market in Villa Nueva, Guatemala, Tuesday, April 29, 2008. According to the U.N. World Food Program, WFP, due to the rising prices of petroleum, the cost of basic food products in Guatemala have shot up 15 percent.
