Los magistrados de la Corte de Constitucionalidad (CC) resolvieron la noche de este lunes un recurso de la defensa de Efraín Ríos Montt, que anula la sentencia de 80 años contra el militar y hace retroceder el juicio hasta el 19 de abril último. crédito de foto Ben Parker [leer más]
Desde fines de los años 80, varias asociaciones, organizaciones y fundaciones se han creado en La Antigua Guatemala para diferentes causas – desde la celebración de fiestas en la Calle del Arco, hasta Salvemos Antigua en pro de la preservación de la ciudad histórica. Salvemos Antigua fue fundada por un grupo de residentes antigueños (incluyéndome) en el año 1999 para abordar temas relacionados con la conservación y el desarrollo positivo de esta histórica ciudad.
There were grenades under the seat and four bodyguards following our imported grey Cadillac. It was seven in the morning and I felt as if I had been awake the entire day, wishing it was over and hating to admit it had just begun. I was part of a right-wing political caravan heading toward the Guatemalan town of Esquipulas, where an infamous presidential candidate would initiate his presidential campaign by kissing a statue on the altar of a church visited annually by thousands of religious pilgrims from the Isthmus.
Eight months ago, I stepped off a plane and into the Guatemala City airport. It was my gateway into Central America and I didn’t know a single person. That would change quickly with my research into entrepreneurship in the country and in the region. Months later I find myself in Managua, Nicaragua, holding hands with citizens of more than 25 countries with the unifying desire to use business to solve social, economic, and environmental problems in Latin America.