Guatemala News Archives

Victoria Lopez cradles 2-year-old granddaughter Jennifer, whose chubby cheeks, bloated legs and stunted growth make her look much younger than healthy children her age.

Four members of the ultraviolent Mara Salvatrucha gang were beaten and burned alive by a mob in the northwestern Guatemalan province of Huehuetenango, police said Thursday.

Latinos play a crucial part in the U.S. If you watched CNN's recent "Latino in America" special, you probably got a good glimpse of it.

A columnist's recent writings on illiteracy lead to a surprising discovery much closer to home.

Guatemala, Oct 25 Once again, Guatemalan cyclist Nery Velasquez will be the leader of the Guatemala Cycling Tour after having lost his leading condition for just one stage.

Negotiators trying to resolve the Honduran political crisis said Friday that talks have broken off, the third such announcement in the past week.

Four cargo containers with desperately needed food will be sent to Guatemala's drought-stricken regions to help stave off malnutrition and starvation due to the worst drought in this country in 30 years, the Pan American Development Foundation announced.

GUATEMALA CITY, Oct 20 - People in the town of Ixcan in northwestern Guatemala could relive the pain of the country's 36-year civil war if the army reopens a military base in the area, where more than 100 massacres of indigenous villagers were committed during the armed conflict.

Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom inaugurated in Alta Verapaz, central Guatemala, the Open School Program.

Two hundred plus kilometers northeast of Guatemala City or inland from the Caribbean side of Guatemala, southeast of Puerto Barrios and past the ancient Spanish fortress of the Castillo de San Felipe de Lara, lies the sleepy palm-fringed port of Rio Dulce .

At press time Wednesday police were still looking for two men responsible for the execution-style shooting death of a Norwalk gas station clerk early Saturday morning.

A man sought by authorities for eight years in connection with the fatal stabbing of a Daly City high school student in 2001 was arrested in New York this week, Daly City police announced Wednesday.

Erick Morales, 27, who was first apprehended in Hampton Bays, Long Island, on Oct.

Police in Norwalk are hoping a videotape will help catch the killers of a gas station clerk.

The former Daly City man authorities believed was at large in Guatemala to avoid prosecution on murder charges stemming from the 2001 fatal stabbing of his high school classmate was caught in Long Island, N.Y. Monday morning after being pulled over on suspicion of drunk driving.

Doctors at Yale-New Haven Hospital took a Norwalk Shell station clerk off life support Monday after he was shot in the head during a robbery at the West Avenue gas station early Saturday morning.

Two separate attacks on police in Guatemala have killed one officer and wounded six more.

Actors John Cusack and Chiwetel Ejiofor take part in a photocall to promote German film director Roland Emmerich's film '2012' during the 57th San Sebastian International Film Festival on Sept.

By Ezra Fieser Source: Published: CHIQUIMULILLA, Guatemala - Hurricane Stan swept through the village of El Dormido on Guatemala's Pacific Coast four years ago, destroying homes, a school and a church.

It is a known fact-and most Americans take pride in it-that the United States is a country founded on strong democratic principles defended in the Constitution that protect the civil rights and individual freedom of all.

The nickel project, which HudBay acquired last year when it bought Sky Resources, has been the site of a long-running land dispute between local residents occupying the land and the mine ownership.

Metro Officer Edwing Morales and four others have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of international firearms trafficking.

Guatemala - Some 208,723 tons of white corn have been lost this year in Guatemala as a result of a prolonged drought, the Agriculture Ministry said Wednesday.

Children in the parish of Chiquimula [CAFOD] CAFOD partner gears up for response to Guatemalan hunger crisis as Guatemalan President declares a "state of calamity" . Severe food shortages are affecting thousands.