There is new seismic activity in La Antigua Guatemala’s grapevine. For a while now, I’ve been hearing rumors about new closing times imposed by the Municipalidad, Antigua Guatemala’s City Hall for certain kind of businesses. Like everything in life, there are at least two sides to the story, but before I present you with details of the new city ordinances, a little background information is needed.

July 29, 2010 Source: NISGUA   By Lara Barth   Six days.  Help us make our goal of getting donations for over 100 drawing tickets in the next six days.   What ...

This is Mazatenango – a modern town with a lot of night life. I'm not sure how much “night life” I'd like to get into at this point. Car alarms are going off left and right, but I managed to fall asleep to the sounds of a parade of cars, trucks, and buses driving past us on the highway. These must be the guys that sleep by day and drive by night.

 Shortly after hitting the road – less than 100 yds from our hostel - we saw a man that had just been shot dead on the side of the road. There was so little natural light out at that time that, after shooting a bit of Mingo sweeping up the bus before we took off, I had returned my camera back to its bag. At any rate, the police were just pulling up and fresh blood had begun to soak into the pores of the worn concrete.

After 11 hours or so on the road, I started to get tired. The back of the bus is a collection of all kinds of extra parts and pieces. Among these are 40 extra bus seats – the bases separated from the backs. I put my gear away, climbed back there, cracked a window and arranged 10 or so of them on top of an old bus engine and took a much-needed nap for an hour or so.

Guatemala's government said on Thursday it was evaluating a request by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to close the country's only major gold mine, citing environmental concerns

Four severed heads and two beheaded bodies have been found in the capital of Guatemala.

Venezuela's government is sending 12 tons of humanitarian aid to Guatemala to help the country recover from Tropical Storm Agatha and the eruption of the Pacaya volcano.

Government estimates include over150 deaths, 100 disappeared, over 135,000 people evacuated, over 20,000 homesdamaged and at least 35 bridges completely destroyed.

Villagers used hoes and pick axes on Tuesday to hunt for victims of landslides that have killed at least 180 people in Central America while officials in Guatemala's capital tried to cope with a vast sinkhole that swallowed a clothing factory.