Guatemala Travel News

While visiting his girlfriend in Guatemala a couple years ago, Oldham County High School alum Brett McGrath was carjacked at gunpoint.

Emblematic American protest folksinger of the Sixties. Hindu FESTIVAL OF THE GODDESSS ANKRANT.

They don't have diplomas or a nursing license, but Jackson area students Katy Handevidt and Rebekah Anderson are bringing what they do have to an impoverished place in Guatemala: some medical knowledge and willing hearts.

There aren't many seven room boutique hotels in the world that can boast a guest list of presidents, prime ministers and princes.

Arts & Culture , Food , Indigenous , Travel , War & Conflict Languages: Spanish Full Category List Excerpt Towns Santa MarA a Nebaj, San Juan Cotzal and San Gaspar Chajul form the Ixil Triangle, located north of the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes.

Hoping to enter the U.S. legally, Marvin Perez-Gomez of Chimaltenango, Guatemala, paid a con artist for an H-2B visa that never existed.

This Fall, Faith In Practice will honor the work of Dr. Rafael Espada, Vice President of Guatemala, former Houston cardiac surgeon and Faith In Practice Board Member at its annual Gala A Heart For Mission Tuesday, October 14, 2008 from 5:30-9:00 p.m. at the Westin Galleria Houston.

If the Mayan calendar is correct, the world is going to end in 2012. That's why tourists have been heading to Tikal, Guatemala , ground zero of the conspiracy set.

We'd better hurry, the rainy season begins at two," said Arturo, my Guatemalan guide.

Morgan Colville of Randolph has turned her passion for soccer into an opportunity to help people who are less fortunate than she.

Guatemala's Lake Atitlan, surrounded by volcanoes and Maya settlements, has been taken over by a massive bloom of cyanobacteria .

I went because: I wanted to experience the magic of Central America's best Mayan ruins.

Leah Mann and Ela Lamblin, founders of Lelavision Physical Music, usually get hired to work at theaters and festivals, performing a unique blend of dance and physical comedy that revolves around Lamblin's musical sculptures.

Almost always, the tours for young people - ranging from high school students to professionals in their early 30s - are identical to the tours operated for middle-age baby-boomers and seniors.

Springwood Middle School students are undertaking a school-wide bottle drive this Saturday to raise money for Mayan Families Canada.

A Miami dentist set up a drop-off spot on Flagler Street in Little Havana. A Broward business owner donated thousands of dollars to build soy processing factories.

GUATEMALA CITY, Nov 3 - Construction is expected to begin soon on a new highway across north-central Guatemala, the largest infrastructure project tackled so far by the government of Alvaro Colom.

Safe Passage/Camino Seguro was founded in 1999 by Hanley Denning, a young woman from Maine, U.S.A. Sadly, in January 2007 Hanley died in a car accident.

The season of giving lasts well past the December holidays and everyone needs a break after the stress of holiday preparations.

Advice for candidates from a former fundie. One thing I learned not long after finishing my Spanish degree was -- never volunteer to translate anything into a language you don't dream in.