Guatemala News

View Ken Kiesnoski's slideshow, " Guatemala: Colonial charm and volcanoes ." The charming, colonial city of Antigua has long been Guatemala's top tourist draw, and for good reason.

Editor's Note: Secretary of State Hilary Clinton recently visited Latin America, embarking on a tour of countries like Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Costa Rica, and Guatemala.

Guatemalan security forces have arrested the country's anti-drug tsar and national police chief in a case involving stolen cocaine and murdered police officers.

Guatemala, Mar 4 The 22 Guatemalan departments are currently covered with advisors of the Cuban literacy program "Yo, Si Puedo" , through which a full municipality is already free of illiteracy.

Saturday, 6 March 2010, 10:44 am Press Release: United Nations New York, Mar 5 2010 2:10PM The United Nations, together with the Guatemalan Government and aid partners, today launched a $34 million appeal to counter food shortages affecting 2.7 million people living in the Central American country's so-called 'dry corridor,' which even before last ...

The arrests of Guatemala's drug czar and national police chief underscore how deeply the world's multibillion-dollar drug industry can corrupt small countries with weak institutions - a trend the Obama administration warned Wednesday threatens global security.

The Guatemalan society is witnessing another dark episode that reveals organized crime infiltration in police corps, after a gang inside the National Civil Police was dismantled.

Via the BBC: Guatemala police chief arrested over 'cocaine link' Guatemala's chief of national police and the country's top anti-drugs official have been arrested over alleged links to drug trafficking.

Guatemala's national police chief and anti-drug czar were detained Tuesday in a case of stolen cocaine that led to the deaths of five police agents.

President Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner yesterday said Latin American leaders backed her objections to British oil exploration in the Malvinas islands at the Rio Group summit taking place in Mexico, as drilling began on the first well.

A 24-year-old Laurel man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a 2009 brutal rape of a University of Maryland student.

Antigua, Guatemala Some prophecy watchers have wondered if the nations in Latin America and the Caribbean would tend to turn away from the USA.

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The Music Hall truly does "bring the world to Portsmouth." Several years ago, The Music Hall curatorial staff learned of the Garifuna - descendants of shipwrecked slaves who married Carib and Arawak Indians - who live primarily in small towns and villages on the Caribbean coasts of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.

Some say you haven't lived until you think you've almost died..when you're packed six in a row on a school bus circa 1979..and the exhaust fumes are blowing in your face and at any second it feels as if you're about to go off a cliff or be mashed into a head on collision with another chicken bus.

A Fort Myers man accused of sexually assaulting a young girl remained jailed Tuesday pending posting of $170,000 in bonds.

GUATEMALA CITY, Feb 16, 2010 - Ecologists in Guatemala see a recent ruling by Canada's Supreme Court, which ordered Canadian mining companies to carry out rigorous environmental assessments, as a positive precedent that could help improve environmental controls over the mining industry in this Central American country.

Entrepreneurship is more than just a driver of economic development. It can help build communities.

Marisol Sampedro trekked across town on her day off to celebrate a milestone and help her daughter with her math skills.

The Inter American Court of Human Rights judge Diego Garcia Sayan gestures as he speaks on July 14, 2009 in La Paz, during a session on the case of the massacre of 250 indigenous people in Dos Erres, Guatemala, in December 7, 1982, during the dictatorship of Efrain Rios Montt Guatemalan rights advocates are hailing this week's decision by the ...