Guatemala News

The U.S. filed a complaint against Guatemala today over its lack of labor protections, using provisions in a regional free-trade agreement, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said.

Los Zetas Members on Trial in Guatemala GUATEMALA - The trial of 14 alleged members of the Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas continued Thursday in the case of 11 Guatemalan drug traffickers killed in Zacapa department in 2008.

It's happened in San Antonio and San Francisco, and now in Istanbul; authorities are trying to get flower vendors to buy in and make their work official.

We're basket cases over keeping jobs and homes. Obama's reduced to courting Whoopi and Barbara Walters today on "The View," hoping a cozy chat will reassure the wives of independents and/or Tea Party sympathizers who've abandoned the president in droves.

Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary Patricia Espinosa called Wednesday's decision on Arizona's immigration law "a step in the right direction." A U.S. judge temporarily blocked the most controversial parts of the law from going into effect.

Tuesday's senior millage continues to lead our discussion. Talk to me: ? Ruth from East China Township: 'I'd like to reply to John from Fort Gratiot.

By Kari Lydersen and Jason Wallach in the July 2010 issue. THE PRICE TAG ON FREE TRADE is rising in El Salvador.

The archdiocesan phase of Fr. Stanley Rother's cause for canonization came to a close in a Mass this week at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Oklahoma City.

Cochabamba, Bolivia, Jul 22 The thermoelectric plant in Entre Rios, which President Evo Morales will inaugurate on Thursday, will ensure Bolivia''s energy security, authorities said.

The Archdiocese of Oklahoma city has concluded the diocesan phase of the canonization cause of Father Stanley Rother , a missionary slain in Guatemala.

Jeff Durand helps prepare a meal. JALAPA, Guatemala -- Louisiana rice producer Jeff Durand worked with USA Rice Federation staff, The Rice Company, and Arrocera Los Corrales, S.A. , Guatemala's leading rice importer, to arrange a 1 metric ton donation of U.S.-grown rice to Hogar Nuestra Senora de los Remedios, a home for abandoned and abused girls ...

A Hispanic advocacy group gathered on the steps of the State Capitol Wednesday to encourage Latinos to vote in the upcoming elections.

The rains from tropical storm Agatha left mud and garbage in Lake AtitlA n, Guatemala.

The Minnesota Court of Appeals has upheld the prison sentence of Olga Franco, the Guatemalan national convicted of driving a minivan through a stop sign near rural Cottonwood, Minn., killing four children on a Lakeview School District bus and injuring 17 others.

The wire master and his puppets, 1875. BP successfully capped its hemorrhaging Deepwater Horizon wellhead with an 18-foot, 150,000-pound stopper, 86 days after the rig exploded.

Santa Maria Visitacion, Guatemala, Jul 17 Guatemala now has three illiteracy-free municipalities thanks to the Cuban education method "Yo Si Puedo" , a UNESCO official announced.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City's canonization efforts on behalf of martyred priest, the Rev.

WHAT: Presentations by Guru Luis Moreno Balandran. WHEN AND WHERE: - "The Environment is Us," 7 p.m. Saturday, North Country Co-Op, 25 Bridge St.

The following news release from the U.S. Military Sealift Command is about crew members and others aboard High Speed Vessel Swift 2 rescuing seven Guatemalan special forces sailors after their boat capsized.

Dan Bates / The Herald Teresa Wharton , Sharon Wallace and Jan Andersen play with puppets while packing cuddly toys for the children of Guatemala.