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Dec 17, 2009
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In a pretend conversation written in Una Hoja de Papel, a child asks his grandfather what Guatemala's Lake Atitlán—Central America’s deepest lake—was once like. "It was very beautiful, crystal clear waters, you could see through the waters to the pebbles on the shore," the grandfather recalls.
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Jan 19, 2010
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Today’s NOAA Hazard Mapping System (HMS) Fire and Smoke Product (below) indicates widespread fire activity across Central America and Mexico. Each red dot on the map represents a “hotspot” identified by satellites.
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Jan 21, 2010
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Carlos Perez wishes now that he had burned his clothes instead of giving them away. He thinks mostly about his shirt—white, and emblazoned with the image of a dying gang member.
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Jan 27, 2010
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For decades, impunity has reined in Central America. Dictatorial rule, coups, murder, and genocide have, for the most part, gone unpunished. This month, however, events in Guatemala have suggested a potential turning of the tide.
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Jan 30, 2010
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The 31st January 2010 marks the 30th anniversary of the Guatemalan state attack on the Spanish Embassy and the massacre of 37 people.
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Feb 3, 2010
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Today the Pro Justice Movement of Guatemala sends out a very important communication regarding the upcoming elections of the Attorney General on the 15th of May this year and the election of a new Controller General of the nation.
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Feb 13, 2010
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Two former Guatemalan soldiers have been arrested in the 1982 massacre of more than 200 villagers during the country's civil war, a human rights activist said Friday.
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Feb 22, 2010
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He was the Special Advisor to the Resident Coordinator of the United Nations System in Guatemala, political advisor to the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), consultant to the National Human Development Report, and a consultant of the Latin America Program of the Open Society Institute.
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Mar 3, 2010
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Authorities arrested Guatemala's anti-drug czar and national police chief Tuesday in a case involving stolen cocaine and slain police, acting just two days before U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrives to discuss the drug war.
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Mar 7, 2010
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I am well aware that Guatemala is a country with great potential, but also with one – one that has many challenges.
Dec 17, 2009 0In a pretend conversation written in Una Hoja de Papel, a child asks his grandfather what Guatemala's Lake Atitlán—Central America’s deepest lake—was once like. "It was very beautiful, crystal clear waters, you could see through the waters to the pebbles on the shore," the grandfather recalls.