Last Updated Stories in Guatemala

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...

Growing Shift in Global Consciousness

  As 26,000 years of history culminates into a relatively brief but powerful point of time for humanity, a wave of a shift in consciousness is taking hold across the globe.  While there are many ancient...

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...

A Schoolteacher with a Story

Take a glimpse at the desk of Rosanna Castellanos, a bilingual special education teacher at Goudy Elementary School in Chicago, and you may be surprised by what you see. In addition to pencils, pens, textbooks and...

Guatemalan Protesters Demand President Colom's Resignation

Boing Boing directs us to an incredible UStream video channel that is currently broadcasting live events in Guatemala — where protesters are calling for the resignation of Guatemala's President Alvaro Colom. Watch...

Primmo's Bio

PRIMMO is Dali, Van Gogh and Picasso on a musical canvas. An original sound with hints of funk, bossa- nova, hip-hop, jazz and rock. With universal lyrics and their innovative sound, PRIMMO captivates the...

Primmo - The Band

Gian Paolo Perini- Vocals and guitar / Alejandro Calderon- Drums / Andres Ponciano- Lead guitar / Luis Pedro Gonzalez- Bass / Julio Cesar Micheo- Trumpet

Project Jive by Primmo

PRIMMO is Dali, Van Gogh and Picasso on a musical canvas. An original sound with hints of funk, bossa- nova, hip-hop, jazz and rock. With universal lyrics and their innovative sound, PRIMMO captivates the listener....

New faces of immigration

"On a recent afternoon, 15-year-old Marlon Parras stood on a stage in front of 3,000 people and talked about the hardships he and his 13-year-old sister, Emiely, have faced since their parents were deported to Guatemala. He wept as he spoke softly of their parents' decision...

Deadly Landslide Adds to Misery of Guatemalan Massacre Survivors

January 16, 2009, Rabinal, Guatemala: A deadly landslide in the mountains of central Guatemala has dealt another blow to indigenous communities that suffered massacres and mass displacement during the construction of the Chixoy Hydroelectric Dam in the early 1980s. On...

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