Guatemala: President Alvaro Colom to divorce wife Sandra Torres

What will presidents not do to extend their stay in power? While those in Libya and Ivory Coast have no problem killing the citizens so as to stay in power, Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom and his wife Sandra Torres chose a divorce so she can stand for election to succeed...

Reagan in Latin America

http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/102-102/4859-ronald-reagan-enabler-of-atrocities Deception of the American public – a strategy that the administration called “perception management” – was as much a part of Reagan's Central American...

U.S. Conducted Syphilis Experiments in Guatemala Without Consent

Beginning in 1946 through 1948, an experiment funded and conducted by the United States' National Institutes of Health (NIH), infecting those in the study without their knowledge with syphilis and, in some...

US Apologizes for Infecting Guatemalans with Syphilis

The United States apologized today for an experiment carried out from 1946-1948 in Guatemala. US government researchers deliberately infected Guatemalan prisoners with syphilis, so they could test the new drug ...

Bowls of Ancient fingers and teeth lead to rare Mayan tomb

 May 29, 2010  GUATEMALA CITY - Archeologists in Guatemala have discovered a Mayan king's tomb packed with a well-preserved hoard of carvings, ceramics and children's bones. (Reuter) The discovery...

Sinkhole in Guatemala 2010 Photos, Video, After Agatha Storm

A Massive Sinkhole Opened Up in Guatemala After Tropical Storm Agatha Swept Through Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador Tropical Storm Agatha has killed at least 150 people so far with 92 in Guatemala alone. About 112,000 people have been evacuated from their homes and in...

Guatemala Volcano Eruption: Pacaya Volcano Kills Anibal Archila

Pacaya Volcano in Guatemala Errupted on Thursday May 27 and Killed TV Reporter Anibal Archila The volcano started spewing out rocks and lava on Thursday afternoon according to the Associated Press, and Guatemala City...

6.0-Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Guatemala: No Deaths Or Damages

A 6.0-magnitude earthquake has struck offshore in Guatemala at 09:40 AM local time this morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The epicenter was 60 miles south east of Guatemala City, the country's...

Female armed robber stripped, beaten and set alight by mob.

Some times crooks get beat up here in the Philippines but not burnt, its normally a case of people not trusting the police because criminals some times bribe their way out of trouble. Sometime the police protect...

Independencia de Centroamérica y su Dependencia a todo lo demás

El orgullo tico florece una vez más. Las banderas 'de a cien' ondean en todas las rotondas, y no, esta vez no es por algún partido de la Selección Nacional de fútbol. El fútbol tico está, err, pasando por...

Femicide and Hell for Women in Guatemala

In Central America's Guatemala women are being 'punished' for their gender every day. Women are raped, tortured, mutilated and brutallly killed on a daily basis, as their perpetrators enjoy widespread impunity....

Presidenet Zelaya returns to Honduras on Thursday

Caracas, Venezuela, 29 June 2009. Honduran President Manuel Zelaya announced his return to Honduras on Thursday. He would be accompanied by OAS General Secretary and probably some other Latin American leaders. ...

A Dead-Man's Revolution

This is the opinion of Marcus Cleaver and is copied with his express permission from his blog for the purposes of nowpublic.com "A Dead-Man's Revolution For all intents and purposes, Guatemala is a failed state and this is of no surprise given its chequered past. Until...

Political Crisis In Guatemala Takes A Turn For The Worse

The political crisis in Guatemala appears to have deepened. The opposition to President Alvaro Colom presented a petition to the country's Congress. The petition which is 35.000 strong demands that Colom be stripped...

Guatemala Polarized Over Assassination

The City of Guatemala was the scene of demonstrations in favour and against President Alvaro Colom. The cause of the demonstrations were a video by Rodrigo Rosenberg recorded before his assassination. In the video, Mr. Rosenberg made statements against President Colom and...

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