The Air Forces of Colombia, Guatemala and Honduras made “multinational exercise” aimed at controlling drug trafficking through the Caribbean, an official source said today. Colombia’s Air Force (FAC) indicated that the exercises, which began last December 16 and will end tomorrow, Wednesday, aims to “close the airspace of the Caribbean Sea to the flights of transnational drug trafficking in the heavens.” The combined air interdiction exercises called “Honcolgua I” and allow “strengthen and unify languages aircraft, as well as improve and strengthen the control of the airspace in the Caribbean region,” added the army. Read Article
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The Foreign Ministry on Friday opened a consular protection office in the town of Comitan, Chiapas, Mexico. The aim of the new headquarters, which will be operated in conjunction with the government of Guatemala, is to protect Salvadoran immigrants in need in that area of the southern border of Mexico. Read Article
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The FTA establishes who will enter our market by 81.4% of all Guatemalan products duty-free within a maximum period of five years. Meanwhile, Guatemala will receive 94.7% of Peruvian products. The balance of trade between Peru and Guatemala’s partner. In 2010 our country exported to Guatemala about U.S. $ 51 million, while Guatemala imported Peruvian […]
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The rain threw the fruit before the time, said Gerardo de Leon, Marketing Manager of the Federation of Coffee Cooperatives of Guatemala (Fedecocagua).In some areas, losses are up 50%, and affected especially organic coffee, he said. San Marcos producer groups, Retalhuleu, Quetzaltenango and Huehuetenango were planning to produce 30 million pounds, but only get about […]
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The swine flu outbreak is serious and unpredictable, according to World Health Organization, WHO, that is why the authorities of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, MAGFOR, announced that Nicaraguan border there is a health alert, because it has detected swine fever in Guatemala. “We have declared a health alert and we have restricted the […]
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Guatemalan President-elect Otto Perez Molina told Mexican newspaper El Universal on Nov. 9 that he plans to engage drug cartels in a “full frontal assault” when he takes office in 2012. The former general said he will use Guatemala’s elite military forces, known as Los Kaibiles, to take on the drug cartels in a strategy […]
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Guatemala’s President Alvaro Colom on Tuesday authorized the extradition of former President Alfonso Portillo (2000-2004) United States, where he is accused of laundering $ 70 million (48.3 million euros) in banks in this country. In a press conference, Colom explained that his decision was motivated by his desire not to interfere in judicial decisions by […]
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The government is taking its fight against narco-trafficking to the sky. The C4i (Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence) system will have the ability to take aerial shots, which will assist law enforcement officials to identify areas that are hotbeds for drug activity. But it also will assist meteorologists because the system will help them […]
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A retired right-wing general promising a crackdown on violent crime won Guatemala’s presidential election on Sunday and will be the first military man to take power since democracy was restored in 1986. Read Article
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A torrent of gray, toxic water spews from a drainage tunnel and surges along the ravine, tumbling along garbage that has fallen from the Guatemalan capital’s main landfill 1,000 feet (300 meters) above. Despite the foul odors, the danger of unstable piles of garbage collapsing and the chance for heavy rain to suddenly raise the […]
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A woman was arrested Friday afternoon after she was found selling antibiotics out of her minivan trunk on a San Rafael street, police said. Around 12:30 p.m. police received a complaint about a woman selling items from the back of her car in the 300 block of Canal Street. When police arrived at the location […]
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On October 19, health authorities warned of outbreaks of viral diseases and lack of food in Central America, while the death toll due to heavy rains, floods and landslides consequential continues to rise. The death toll has reached 97. 10 days ago, it rains non-stop, which affects hundreds of thousands of people. Authorities have reported […]
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Vice President of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, subscribe today with President of Guatemala, Rafael Espada, a Memorandum of Understanding on Bilateral Cooperation on Disability and a Memorandum of Understanding for the “Fighting the Smuggling of Migrants and Victim” between the two countries. Guatemala is a new country that is advised by Manuela Espejo Mission to transfer […]
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The bloody eruption of Mexican-led cartels into Guatemala is the latest chapter in a vicious cycle of violence and institutional failure. Geography has placed the country – midway between Colombia and the U.S. – at one of the world’s busiest intersections for illegal drugs. Cocaine (and now ingredients for synthetic drugs) flows in by air, […]
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The vice president of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, and Guatemala, Rafael Espada, will sign next Wednesday in Quito, a memorandum of understanding for bilateral cooperation on disability, said the Ecuadorian government. Espada will visit Ecuador between 19 and 22 October, the Vice President said in a statement. This is a step in matters of cooperation after […]
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“If we can manage it, we buy something at the butcher’s every 15 days, even if it’s only a bone, although we normally just eat maize and beans,” says Marvin Fajardo, a small-scale farmer and father of three from the southern Guatemalan province of Escuintla. Like Fajardo and his family, thousands of Guatemalan families subsist […]
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The storm in the last 24 hours has plagued most of Central America has killed nearly two dozen people in Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador, and floods and landslides in Costa Rica and Honduras. The phenomenon is caused by a low pressure system began to affect the region on Monday and yesterday became Tropical Depression […]
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PNC of Guatemala reported that a woman has been apprehended with a minor from El Salvador with a stolen visa. PNC Guatemala
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The death toll rose to eleven by the accident of a minibus was swept away in a river in Olopa, Chiquimula, 200 km east of Guatemala City, reported the National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction (Conrad ) tonight. “Five people were located on Tuesday night and the other six were placed in the course of today. […]
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It keeps the climate of insecurity among Guatemalans because of the violence. The most recent report on the human rights situation in Guatemala, and incidents of violence during eight months of 2011, prepared by the Mutual Support Group (GAM), reveals that up to August 2231 were killed in violence in the country . Of these, […]
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The Government of Guatemala announced today that borrow for almost $ 170 million to Brazil for the purchase of six Super Tucano aircraft, radar and other equipment for the fight against drugs in this country, bridge of the drug that reaches the U.S. from South America. Read Article
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Fake drugs are still on sale in Guatemala The marketing reports of counterfeit drugs, especially cough syrups, tonics and multivitamins drinkable, have not diminished, especially in the western part of Guatemala. Some pharmacies buy and sell counterfeit drugs without checking the legality of these products. Read Article
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Source: USGS 5.8 Date-Time Monday, September 19, 2011 at 18:34:00 UTC Monday, September 19, 2011 at 12:34:00 PM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 14.332°N, 90.142°W Depth 39.4 km (24.5 miles) Region GUATEMALA Distances 53 km (32 miles) SE of GUATEMALA, Guatemala 69 km (42 miles) E of Escuintla, Guatemala 74 […]
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Guatemalan children living in shelters in the U.S. Some 60 children and adolescents in Guatemala remain in shelters in the city of Phoenix, Arizona, after being detained by immigration agents trying to cross the border between the United States and Mexico, the Executive Secretary of the National Council for Migrants Guatemala, Conamigua Alejandra Gordillo, who […]
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The massive evictions of 800 families from 14 communities in Guatemala’s Polochic Valley, removing peasant agriculture in order to install the Chabil Utzaj sugar plantation, began on March 15, 2011. When we heard, we were surprised. Not because we have any illusions about the benevolence of the Guatemalan government or the oligarchy it serves, but […]
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After 26 years of civilian governments in Guatemala, a soldier could return to power, according to the survey agree that place retired Gen. Otto Perez as favorite to win Sunday’s election. Pérez Molina, nominated by the rightist Partido Patriota (PP), the main opposition, be heading to victory in the race for the presidency of Guatemala, […]
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Locate and drug trade arsenal located in Zacapa. An arsenal variety of drugs and ammunition seized by the authorities on Monday during a raid that took place in a car wash located on the 3rd. Street in Zone 1 of Zacapa, in the Neighbourhood Centre. Authorities believe the arsenal belonged to the ZetasRead Article Spanish
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Activists in Guatemala are alarmed at the prospect of a victory by the right in the September general elections, recalling the dismal records of past regimes in the areas of human rights, the economy and justice.On Sept. 11, Guatemalans will elect social democratic President Álvaro Colom’s successor. With just three weeks to go, the polls […]
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Guatemala has issued a decree to allow U.S. couples to complete adoptions that were halted midway when the country banned the process in 2007. Read Article
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Four soldiers from the Guatemalan military were charged with 50 years of prison each for the murder of 201 farmers in Dos Erres village in 1982 according to El Pais. The event, which occurred during clashes between the de facto regimes and Marxist guerrillas, is considered on of the bloodiest massacres in that decade. Based […]
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Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemalan indigenous leader and Nobel Peace prize winner, is now officially a presidential candidate for elections taking place next September 11 reported Andina. Menchu is the ninth presidential candidate recognized an endorsed by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal. This is the second running for Menchu, she also ran in 2007 but received a low […]
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After receiving a distress call, Honduran police officers left to Mount de Los Negros where they encountered a mysterious vehicle and were later ambushed by a heavily armed group of Zetas informed La Prensa. The staged emergency has no leads on the supposed criminals, but addresses the increase of organized crime and drug manufacturing near […]
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Panama alerted that the 48,000 tablets of the drug “histaclor” stolen from a truck might be used to manufacture dangerous drugs in Guatemala and Mexico reported Zona Izabal. The Panamanian Ministry of Health issued an alert of the disappearance of the drug while the truck was near a mall. The drug contains seudofredina, which can […]
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Committees of self-management tourism (CAT), optimistically wait for a boost in tourism this fall to meet expectations of the Guatemalan Institute of tourism (Inguat), inform PrensaLibre.com. Inguat is expecting around 35 thousand Salvadorians for the Savior of the World festivities, which prompted the preparation of several promotions. CAT hopes that the sudden increase in tourism […]
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Seven years after Guatemala signed a free-trade pact with the US that included an agreement to enforce its labor laws, Guatemalan union leaders complain that they are still assassination targets, and that businessmen still illegally fire workers. Read Article
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Musicians and artists are canceling performances and demanding increased security in Guatemala after a visiting Argentine folk singer was shot to death. Read Article
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Federal police intercepted 104 undocumented Guatemalan immigrants in the central state of Queretaro, Mexico’s Public Safety Secretariat, or SSP, said Friday. The migrants were detected during a routine inspection of a northbound bus and 13 people accompanying the Guatemalans were arrested as suspected migrant traffickers, the SSP said in a statement. Read Article
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Indians have arrived in droves even as the overall number of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. has dropped dramatically, in large part because of the sluggish American economy. And with fewer Mexicans and Central Americans crossing the border, smugglers are eager for more “high-value cargo” like Indians, some of whom are willing to pay more […]
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Two men accused of being involved in the assassination of Argentine singer Facundo Cabral were arrested today in Guatemala, according to lavoz.com.ar. One of the men arrested is believed to have hired the gunman who shot Cabral and the other man was one of two drivers of the vehicles used during the shooting. Officials have […]
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•26 narcotics traffickers in the services of Henry de Jesús López Londoño alias Mi Sangre have been captured. •The captures were part of Operación Tormenta (Operation Storm) which the Colombian Police performed with the DEA. •According to El Tiempo, one of the traffickers, Sanmartín Giraldo, was responsible for transporting cocaine in commercial airplanes from such […]
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A group of 120 from Central America – 41 Guatemalans, 40 Hondurans and 43 Salvadorans – were taking a train from Oaxaca to Veracruz on June 24 when they were kidnapped, Prensa Libre reports. Early investigations indicate that the train was intercepted by at least 12 armed men belonging to the drug cartel Los Zetas. […]
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•President Santos proposed that countries work together to fight narcotics trafficking in Central America in the International Conference of Support for the Central American Security Strategy currently in Guatemala. •He referred to Colombia’s example and its cooperation with the U.S. in Plan Colombia, which has helped to combat the threat of narcotrafficking in the country. […]
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This Quiché Maya indigenous woman belongs to one of 10,250 families benefiting from the Maya Food Security Programme, a multisectorial initiative combating chronic malnutrition in the municipalities of Sacapulas, Cunén, Nebaj, Cotzal, Chajul and Uspantán in the department (province) of Quiché. Read Article
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“Now I get supplies to feed my children, and I have a family garden where I grow carrots, onions and beets,” Marta Quinilla, a native of Uspantán, an area northwest of the Guatemalan capital that was devastated by the 36-year civil war, says cheerfully. This Quiché Maya indigenous woman belongs to one of 10,250 families […]
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Guatemala will become a hub of connection and logistics for world trade when a highway-rail cargo transport corridor linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans is completed. Read Article
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According to BBCmundo.co.uk in the capital the first women-only buses of Tansurbano will be launched into circulation today, Wednesday June 15th. The buses can be identified by a picture of a pink ribbon or a sign that reads” exclusively for women.” Circulation of these buses will occur between 6 and 7 am and then again […]
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According to msemanal.com, last month’s massacre of 28 Guatemalan farm workers by the Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas represents a first act of extreme violence aimed explicitly at civilians since the end of Guatemala’s Civil War. However, it is not the first instance of violence attributed to Los Zetas in El Petén, the department of […]
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•Elespectador.com reports that the Policía Nacional Civil found 166 kilos of cocaine in a container from Colombia in a warehouse of the Santo Tomás de Castilla port in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala. •There were no arrests. •Yesterday, the police seized $4.29 million USD of cocaine in the El Progreso department during which two presumed members of […]
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Few regions on earth have a cultural richness to match the Maya World’s. In the lowlands of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and southern Mexico steamy rainforests, replete with wildlife, preserve thousands of soil-covered ruined cities built by an ancient Maya Empire that rose with the Romans and slowly declined in Europe’s Middle Ages. Read […]
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The main suspect in the drug-cartel massacre of 27 farmworkers and relatives in Guatemala’s Peten province was arraigned Friday on charges including conspiracy to murder and kidnapping. Suspect Hugo Gomez Vasquez has been identified as a local leader of the Mexico-based Zetas drug cartel and a former member of the elite Guatemalan military unit known […]
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A wanted sex offender from Marion County was arrested in Guatemala and is being deported to the United States. According to a press release from U.S. marshals in Clarksburg, Phillip Christian Landmeier, 57, of Fairmont, was arrested by Guatemalan National Police in Rio Dulce, Guatemala, on Tuesday on immigration violations after deputy U.S. marshals tracked […]
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A state of emergency has been declared, travel advisories have been issued and regional beach volleyball championships have been postponed since the massacre in La Libertad, Petén over the weekend. We have been following the story because of the close proximity of Petén to western Belize and possible risks to locals travelling across the border […]
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Smuggling corridor for Indians attempting to enter the US illegally, according to a Fox News Latino report published earlier this week. In the past three years, the number of Indians legally entering Guatemala through immigration checkpoints has surged dramatically. In 2008, only 304 Indians entered the country legally. By 2010, that number surged to 4,966—out […]
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Manuel Baldizón, leader of a minority opposition party, reported Thursday that their parents have received death threats from the Mexican cartel Los Zetas because they asked to punish those responsible for the killing of 27 people at a farm in northern department of Petén. Read Article
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The violence and the state of siege in the northern Guatemalan province of Petén, following the massacre and decapitation of 27 farm labourers, has been building up for years. Maya archaeological sites in Petén are now surrounded by soldiers after the discovery of the bodies of those murdered Sunday May 15, presumably by Los Zetas, […]
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After a lengthy special session in Congress, the House approved on Tuesday the state of siege in Petén established by the executive yesterday, effective for 30 days. The ratification was achieved by a vote of 124 deputies. This measure will limit freedom of movement of persons, freedom of action, lawful detention, the right of assembly […]
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Unidentified individuals shot and killed three women in three hours in two separate events, which also left a bus driver injured, relief agencies reported. The first occurred at 4.30 am on Seventh Avenue and Second Street in Zone 2 of Villa Canales Boca del Monte, where a woman died during a direct attack. Read Article
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A private company wants to install a liquid petroleum gas storage plant in the Punta de Manabique reserve on GUATEMALA CITY, May 17, 2011 (Tierramérica) – “If they come here to extract iron from the beach, it will mean the destruction of our natural wealth and the end of tourism,” warned Leonel Palma, a hotel […]
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Ruleteros(small vans, minibuses) back for lack of buses in neighborhoods. In the 1980’s, limited bus service originated minibuses appeared ruletero popularly called, which eventually began to use larger vehicles. Ruletero now are back and supplement to units that no longer run at some time, by violence. Read Article
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President Alvaro Colom declared tonight the state of siege in the department of Petén, after the slaughter of 27 agricultural workers who worked on the farm Los Cocos, La Libertad, Petén. He said he ordered the continued presence of the combined forces of police and army ” indefinitely “in Peten jungle region where Mexican drug […]
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According to researchers at the PNC, some 200 heavily armed members of a cell of Los Zetas, identified as “Z 200”, arrived in Los Cocos Saturday night and attacked the victims, mostly peasants that farm workers. Read Article
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The massacre took place early Sunday in the town of Caserio La Bomba in Peten province near the Mexico border, according to National Civil Police spokesman Donald Gonzalez. Among the 29 dead were two children and two women. It is one of the worst massacres since the end of Guatemala’s 36-year civil war in 1996. […]
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At least five people were killed and ten others injured in an assault perpetrated by a group of strangers into a passenger bus on a highway in western Guatemala, sources with the Volunteer Firefighters.The assault occurred at kilometer 39 of the American road, in Santo Domingo Xenacoj jurisdiction in Sacatepéquez department, the sources added. Read […]
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The Mexican newspaper El Universal reported that the Mexican government has issued a warning for those travelling to Guatemala with vehicles displaying Mexican license plates to take extreme caution. The government stated that there is increased risk for these travelers in being victimized by organized crime. The Mexican consuls in Tecum Uman, San Marcos, Jorge […]
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Local authorities declared a yellow alert on Thursday for two departments of western Guatemala, Quetzaltenango and Retalhuleu, as a preventive response to increasingly forceful activity from the Santiaguito volcano. The volcano’s frequent eruptions can now be heard at a distance of 10 kilometers, and avalanches of burning material tumble down the volcano’s slopes in easterly […]
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Last month, Sandra Torres announced that she was divorcing her husband, Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom, in order to run for the presidency herself. “I am getting a divorce from my husband, but I am getting married to the people,” she told reporters. The Guatemalan constitution bans the president’s relatives from running for office. Read Article
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Guatemala: 145 thousand families need food assistance this year The Government of Guatemala declared next week “nutritional risk” in the Central American country with the aim of creating policies to solve the malnutrition problem faced by millions of Guatemalans. Read Article
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Road Protection Directorate (Provial) confirmed the blockages in the 113 kilometers, 179 and 212 of the path southwest, in Cocales, Suchitepéquez, El Zarco, Retalhuleu, and Colomba, Quetzaltenango. There also is blocked at the border of El Carmen, Malacatán. In the highlands there is protest in Cuatro Caminos, mile 178, Totonicapán, and admission to Huehuetenango. The […]
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Analysis of the expanding police warn that gangs operating in the country seeking to exercise, as in provinces bordering with El Salvador have seen graffiti that announce the arrival of these groups. The Development of National Unity against Criminal Gang (PANDA) will implement the Plan Panda in the east of the country in May. The […]
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The Guatemalan courts have approved the divorce of President Alvaro Colom and First Lady Sandra Torres, opening the way for her to run for president in September, a judge said yesterday. “They are legally divorced,” said family court judge Midred Roca, who presided over the divorce proceedings. Read Article
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Ramírez, a member of the Union of Banana Workers of the northeastern province of Izabal, is seeking justice for the September 2007 killing of his brother Marco Tulio, who also belonged to the union. “No progress has been made” in the investigation of the murder,” he told IPS. Read Article
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Rodrigo Rosenberg knew that he was about to die. It wasn’t because he was approaching old age—he was only forty-eight. Nor had he been diagnosed with a fatal illness; an avid bike rider, he was in perfect health. Rather, Rosenberg, a highly respected corporate attorney in Guatemala, was certain that he was going to be […]
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A Civil Chamber of Guatemala ordered to stop divorce proceedings requested by Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom, and his wife, Sandra Torres, so that it can register as a presidential candidate, judicial sources said. Read Article
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Unknown killed at 20.40 am on Wednesday, four people in the Ana Gabriela hotel, located at km 146.5, at the entrance of Salama, Baja Verapaz. Read Article
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The Association of Mayors of the Northern Sector of Santa Rosa is against mining activities in the department, because it considers not only harmful to people, but to nature. Read Article
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Guatemala President Alvaro Colom, today expressed concern over the aggressions of organized crime in Central and confirmed the development by the government of a comprehensive plan to combat it. He said this project aims to unify efforts in the region for the prosecution, seizure and arrest drug traffickers and gangs that specialize in other crimes. […]
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The most deadly weapons and powerful come illegally to organized crime in Mexico come from the armies of Central America and are introduced by the southern border. According to one of the cables supplied exclusively to La Jornada by Wikileaks, the information sent by the U.S. Embassy in Mexico between March 2009 and January 2010, […]
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Alvaro Roque Ramirez, assistant coordinator of Chagas program, said it has been discovered in the 886 towns of the department the presence of beaked bugs. “Tomamos 14 mil muestras a jóvenes de 7 a 14 años, de los cuales 315 dieron positivo”, resaltó. “We took 14 000 samples to youth ages 7 to 14 years, […]
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Álvaro Colom wants both his wife who is willing to divorce. The president of Guatemala and Sandra Torres are no more and no less than 14 years together, counting the six courtship and 8 of happy marriage. But all ends in life. Especially since the current first lady wants to be a candidate for the […]
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Pamela Yates, director of the new film, Granito: How to Nail a Dictator, and a documentary filmmaker with Skylight Pictures, believes taking a journalistic film about war crimes prosecution to the Academy Awards could help elevate human rights causes in the West. Read Article
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Guatemala’s National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction registered 199 forest fires so far in 2011, the local press reported on Wednesday. Given the growing number of these events, authorities declared Yellow Alert for the department of Peten as a preventive measure. Read Article
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The towns of Quetzaltenango and Retalhuleu reported fine ash fall was reported overnight in those locations, the product of the existence of fly ash in the atmosphere that the volcano has frequently expelled and has prevailed in recent days, the volcanic newsletter Bestgen special-023 National Institute of Seismology, Volcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology-INSIVUMEH. Read Article
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The U.S. government will be hit with a class action lawsuit on behalf of 700 Guatemalans who were infected with syphilis unless it offers a way to settle claims before Friday, the plaintiffs’ attorneys said. Read Article
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Buried beneath a lake in Guatamala sits a fortune in lost treasure — Mayan gold to be precise — and a group of German archaeologists has just set off to find it. Their only guidance, a freshly decoded ancient book containing a map to the treasure. Read Article
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Belize’s Ambassador to Guatemala, H. E. Alfredo Martinez, told Amandala on Monday that there is already evidence that Guatemala’s narcotics problems are trickling to this side of the border. Martinez informed our newspaper that the Government of Guatemala is about to dispatch Special Forces soldiers to conduct regular foot patrols in the southern areas of […]
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Amnesty International has called on the Guatemalan authorities to investigate the killing of three indigenous rights activists found shot dead in the east of the country, and to protect the rest of their community. Read Article
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President Alvaro Colom said in an interview published Friday in the Mexican daily El Universal that his country, Honduras and El Salvador seek to create “special combined forces” to fight Mexican drug traffickers operating in Central America. Read Article
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The vice-president of a Guatemalan football club has been shot dead, after receiving death threats over the team’s poor performance, reports the BBC. Police said Carlos Noe Gomez of Deportivo Xinabajul was killed by two men who were waiting for him as he left a team meeting. Read Article
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Guatemala has the highest rate of chronic malnutrition among children in Latin America, and the health consequences continue on through adulthood. Read Article
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“He would punch my head all the time, pull my hair, smack and kick me. And he would make me wear long sleeves to hide the bruises; even on my wedding day I had a black and blue mark on my arm,” Heidi Velásquez told IPS in Guatemala. Read Article
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For girls living in the rural, indigenous communities of Guatemala, it is not unusual to leave school by the age of 12, be married by 15, and give birth for the first time while still a teenager. About 60 percent of school-aged children complete primary education in Guatemala, according to UNICEF, and the rates are […]
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The former director of the National Civil Police of Guatemala (PNC), Porfirio Perez, was found not guilty of the two serious charges he faced. Perez was acquitted yesterday during the trial that accused him of having stolen 300,000 USD seized from a alleged drug dealer. Read Article
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Campesinos leaders report a wave of abuses against local indigenous peasants in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz since a “state of siege” was declared there in response to the alleged presence of Los Zetas narco-network. Read Article
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In Guatemala the Convention on Wetlands came into force on 26 October 1990. Guatemala presently has 7 sites designated as Wetlands of International Importance, with a surface area of 628,592 hectares. Wetland ecosystems are part of Guatemala´s natural wealth. In Guatemala the sites are: Eco-región Lachuá, Manchón-Guamuchal, Parque Nacional Laguna del Tigre. Parque Nacional Yaxhá-Nakum-Naranjo. […]
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The Guatemalan authorities captured two suspected traffickers of methamphetamine linked to Mexican drug cartel known as La Familia Michoacana who are wanted by U.S. Courts. Read Article
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A total of 108 incidents across the country have been served by institutions that are part of CONRED system during the first 25 days of this year. Among these include the low temperatures that continue to affect the night and early morning as well as seismic activity, volcanic and forest fire, considered circumstantial at this […]
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As if he didn’t have enough to worry about already, Guatemalan president Alvaro Colom has been scrambling to contain the diplomatic fallout from a US embassy cable published on Sunday by WikiLeaks. The cable, dating from Summer 2008, describes outgoing US Ambassador to Guatemala James Derham’s final meeting with the Central American leader and his […]
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Federal Police took 55 migrants from Guatemala into custody at Benjamin Hill while being transported in a bus. They were in route to Ensenada. None of the migrants could prove they were legally in Mexico. Read Article
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Guatemala extended military operations on Tuesday to sweep out Mexican drug cartels from a lawless northern state where well-armed traffickers often outgun government troops. Hundreds of troops poured into the remote state of Alta Verapaz last month to attack traffickers, a surprise move by President Alvaro Colom to remobilize the army known for massacring civilians […]
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