Guatemala

She said, "You show me a tropical fruit and I'll show you a cocksucker from Guatemala. "

AFTER years of frustration over its rotten security forces and judiciary, Guatemala's government decided in 2006 to call for outside help.

Human activity, not nature, was the likely cause of the gaping sinkhole that opened up in the streets of Guatemala City, a geologist says.

One of the silas used for public washing in Guatemala is targeted for control of malaria and water borne illnesses.

The Argentine singer-songwriter, who was 74, was on his way to the airport in Guatemala City when gunmen opened fire on his car.

He said remittances fell in August in El Salvador and in July in Guatemala, but "those drops are not an indication of a major pattern. "

Finally, Guatemala is one of Latin America's most rural societies, which makes it a nightmare for pollsters.

Deep within the jungles of Mexico and Guatemala, this civilization flourished when Europe was still in the Dark ages.

Shimmering feathers of a male resplendent quetzal reach far beyond the nest he and his mate hollowed out of a tree in Guatemala.

There is no scientific term for what happened in Guatemala, he said, adding that he recommends the pit be dubbed a piping feature.

He had been married twice but was now single, living in an elegant high-rise overlooking Guatemala City.

Emergency services in Guatemala say up to 100 people may have been buried by landslides on the main highway north of Guatemala City.

Though Guatemala's judicial system was notoriously corrupt, Rosenberg was drawn to the clarity of the law, to its unflinching judgment.

With that he plunged Guatemala into its most serious political convulsion since the end of a 36-year civil war in 1996.

RODRIGO ROSENBERG was not the best-known, richest, or most powerful victim of the endemic violence that dogs Guatemala.

Following many years of civil war and unrest, Guatemala is emerging as a safe and attractive tourist destination.

This ridge that resembles the reclining profile of an Indian is among the volcanic peaks that ring Lake Atitlan in Guatemala.

to see this as the liberation of Guatemala by freedom fighters for democracy.

He called back Colom's chief of staff and said, "I'm catching the next flight to Guatemala. "

Zeta training-camps and recruitment banners have sprung up in Guatemala.

The group were discovered at the Mexican border with Guatemala, one of the busiest transit areas for illegal immigration.

About a fifth of public spending on Guatemala now goes on security, but low taxes mean that this is not nearly enough.

To start with the conclusion first, my basic view still holds that Japan is no more different than Guatemala or Madagascar or Britain.

The group was discovered at the Mexican border with Guatemala, one of the busiest transit areas for illegal immigration.

"In Guatemala City [the pumice is] unconsolidated, it's loose, " he said.

small ratios of coffees from colombia , costarica , guatemala , and venezuela are used to add body , acidity , and flavor to a blend.

Guatemala's constitution bans close relatives of the president from running for the top office.

Incredibly, the death rate in Guatemala is now higher than it was for much of the civil war.

The effects of the weather phenomenon known as El Nino have extended the dry spell in Guatemala, triggering a food crisis in the country.

A national campaign launched by the Social and Farmer Organizations in Guatemala highlights all people's right to food and nutrition.

Birdwatching is gaining popularity in Guatemala and is attracting many visitors from around the world.

The commission, with 207 staff from 23 countries and a high-walled compound in Guatemala City, costs $20m a year.

"Guatemala has the fourth highest rate of chronic malnutrition in the world and the highest in Latin America and the Caribbean, " she said.

Rigoberta Menchu of Guatemala, the Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1992, offers her thoughts in the beginning of the book. Endangered Peoples.

The southern border state of Chiapas, which borders Guatemala, is a major crossing point for Central American immigrants heading north.

Nineteen of these countries are in Africa; the remaining three are Guatemala, Pakistan and Nicaragua.

Discovered in a remote cavern in Guatemala, the artworks and writings of the ancient Maya identify dates and notables of the Classic period.

Guatemala's constitution forbids the candidacy of close relatives of the president, including his spouse.

Access to archives and databases helped shed light on a landmark case of forced disappearance in Guatemala.

I recently visited some of the small impoverished villages of Guatemala and spent time with the local people.

How was Guatemala? Dig up lots of massacre victims? Learn a thing or two about machete strikes ?

Deep within the jungles of Mexico and Guatemala and extending into the Yucatan peninsula lie the mysterious temples and Mayan pyramids.

Authorities in Guatemala arrested the national police chief and the head of the anti-narcotics unit on charges of aiding drug-traffickers .

Guatemala's constitutional court upheld lower-court judgments barring the candidacy in a presidential election next month of Sandra Torres.

Whether or not Mr Rosenberg's killers are brought to justice will show whether or not Guatemala is indeed a failed state.

Kinship may also be a feature of Guatemala's presidential vote in September.

As Mexico and Colombia crack down on them, drug gangs are finding refuge in Guatemala.

President Á alvaro Colom of Guatemala, who first learned of the experiments on Thursday in a phone call from Mrs.

This study proposes the design of a fruit dryer that uses waste heat from the Zunil geothermal power plant in Guatemala.

Some of these men now are drilling on the coffee plantation in Guatemala.

Venezuela's radical government and its supporters used this week's IDB annual conference in Guatemala City to advance their plans.

Award winner Maria Pacheco is from Guatemala. She has worked to help local women start small business and connect with world markets .

The geologist added that the new sinkhole shares remarkable similarities with a sinkhole that formed in Guatemala City in 2007.

Rather, Rosenberg, a highly respected corporate attorney in Guatemala, was certain that he was going to be assassinated.

As an adult, Mercedes had moved to the United States from Guatemala .

Two brothers who allegedly hired a hit man to kill Rodrigo Rosenberg, a lawyer in Guatemala, handed themselves in to authorities.

Burma (Myanmar) and Guatemala are the principal sources of modern gem jadeitite, and Canada of modern lapidary nephrite.

A girl dressed as an angel on the day of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception celebrations in Ciudad Vieja, Guatemala.

Biological diversity has enabled Guatemala to stand among the 25 countries with the most variety of natural resources in the world.

Izurieta knew that intelligence operators had previously deployed disinformation to topple a democratically elected government in Guatemala.

At one point, a clerk handling evidence in the Rosenberg case was gunned down in Guatemala City.

A court in Guatemala has ordered the divorce proceedings of the country's first couple to be halted.

Collins says he spotted a sangoma at the team's hotel ahead of a recent warm-up game against Guatemala.

Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Honduras hardly fare better, though the hump of S America does not grind over them.

A day later she had her appointment for surgery at the hospital there in Guatemala.

Guatemala is more than 50% Catholic, and there are a variety of other Christian faiths which are popular as well.

Rosenberg had frequently expressed despair over the violence that consumed Guatemala.

Our pyramids? We have no pyramids in Miranda. Mexico and Guatemala have pyramids. We don't.

There is no way I'm going to get on a plane after what happened in Guatemala, Venezuela, Tunisia and Paris.

Police in Guatemala have arrested two men in connection with the killing of the Argentine singer Facundo Cabral on Saturday.

In a meeting at his law firm, Rosenberg complained, "There is no justice in Guatemala. "

In both Guatemala and El Salvador, the rate of killing is higher now than during their civil wars.

Health: Omni-drug-resistant, contagious tuberculosis infects children in Mexico City, spreads to Texas, Guatemala, Brazil.

TNT Guatemala arranged shipment packaging, safe transport to the airport and local authorities negotiations.

Lately in Guatemala, bus drivers and their staff have been targeted in systematic attacks by violent groups.

Victims of the American-financed civil war in Guatemala, to name just one such incursion, might argue that they are one and the same.

Guatemala City: Roman Catholics carry an image of the Virgin of the Assumption, the city's patron saint, during a parade.

Nonviolent activists helped to end long-standing and bitter conflicts in Northern Ireland, Guatemala, and East Timor, among other places.

A woman prepares pinatas at a factory in Guatemala City.

The vehicle's license plate was not visible, but the car was a Mazda 6, and there were only fifty such models registered in Guatemala.

Recent eruptions of several volcanoes in Guatemala covered the city in a fresh layer of volcanic ash.

These photos are of a sinkhole that occurred early this year in Guatemala .

They may have fond memories of backpacking around India or Guatemala on a shoestring during their younger days.

Several months ago I visited an agricultural cooperative financed by the IFC in Chimaltenango, in Guatemala.

One of Latin America's most respected folk singers, Facundo Cabral, has been shot dead in Guatemala, where he'd been giving a concert.

The small beachside lodge is less than 2 hours' drive from Guatemala City, on modern paved highways.

Giant earthquakes have been recorded in Iran, China, Guatemala, Chile, India, and Alaska.

During the Cold War, America had frequently supported Guatemala's brutal security apparatus.

In 2009, fewer civilians were reported killed in the war zone of Iraq than were shot, stabbed, or beaten to death in Guatemala.

The UN-sponsored International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala denounced the decision.

Article 186 of Guatemala's constitution bans relatives of the president from standing for office.

Guatemala was the first skirmish of the cold war in Latin America.

in the "northern triangle" of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, progress is being made on this.

The original design of the ceramic filter came from a chemist in Guatemala, Fernando Mazariegos.

She is at her house in a run-down gated community in the suburbs of Guatemala City.

One of the highlights from early 2008 was my birthday bat falcon in Flores, Guatemala.

But fiscal reform is a hostage to Guatemala's political deadlock, blocked by the country's powerful business lobby.

Whatever the weaknesses of the Mexican state, it is a Leviathan compared with the likes of Guatemala or Honduras.

In 2007, with the previous government's support, the UN set up a special commission charged with combating legal impunity in Guatemala.

It inhabited one of the biggest lakes in Guatemala.

Yet with 14 million people, Guatemala has the population only of a single large Chinese metropolitan area like Shenzhen or Guangzhou.

Guatemala developed another shockingly deep sinkhole, with vertical sides and great depth.

Today, I want you to bring me to a few more places. I want to go to Guatemala . Ecuador . Cyprus . Dominican Republic . Egypt . Lebanon.

But the 2010 Guatemala sinkhole "is so huge that it's going to take a lot of fill material to fill it, " Currens said.

Peter Berger, the dean of sociologists of religion, argues that "Max Weber is alive and well and living in Guatemala City" .

An undated handout photo shows a Mayan carving at the El Zotz archaeological site in Northern Guatemala.

Former army general Otto Perez Molina has won the presidential run-off in Guatemala, electoral officials said.

They played a primitive kind of football in great stone stadia, which you can visit in Honduras and Guatemala.

Bunge has 40 such projects operating in Brazil and is planning to expand into Mexico, Guatemala, Peru and the Philippines.

He also mentioned the victims of natural disasters in Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala and Costa Rica.

The sinkhole appeared Sunday in downtown Guatemala City, swallowing a three-story building.

The Catholic cathedral still dominates the main square in Guatemala City.

These energies may bring changes in leadership in the Sudan, Thailand, Cuba, Ireland, and Guatemala.

Volcanic ash from the Pacaya Volcano blankets houses and a church in Calderas, Guatemala, Friday, May 28, 2010.

In Mixco, a poor suburb of Guatemala City, police are winning the trust of community members and reducing crime.

Nicaragua and Guatemala are exploring options to develop smaller and more agile annual surveys that combine household and employment data.

Furthermore, the international airport in Guatemala City was also forced to close because of the volcano eruption.

Landslides caused by heavy rain in Guatemala killed at least 45 people.

Guatemala named a university in his honor. The moons of Jupiter bear his name, too.

As soon as she got home, she started collecting shoes to send to Guatemala.

Mr Perez remains the strong favourite to inherit Guatemala's presidency (a prospect we look ahead to here).

Dall'Anese told me, "One day, Guatemala will recognize what he accomplished. "

And he alleged that one of Guatemala's most respected journalists was part of a criminal network.

It is mainly distributed in southern Mexico, Guatemala, Brazil, Belize and western Honduras and El Salvador.

A close friend of Rosenberg's said that the failures of Guatemala's judicial system "ate at Rosenberg's guts. "

Concerts were held for War Child, and victims of war and civil unrest in Bosnia, Guatemala, Kosovo and Iraq.

Bush will meet his Guatemalan counterpart, Oscar Berger, Monday in Guatemala City.

Only by following the path forged by Costa Rica and Guatemala , says Mr Celis, can Mexico's coffee growers survive in the world market.

One cause of Guatemala's difficulties is that the better-off have traditionally objected to paying enough taxes to finance a modern state.

If I'm deported I'll be sent to Guatemala.

ASH still smears the pavements of Guatemala City, three weeks after nearby Mount Pacaya blew its top.

A troubled and violent past contrasts greatly with Guatemala's beautiful scenery.

While on vacation in Guatemala in 1999, hairstylist Mona Purdy noticed children had no shoes.

In addition to Brazil and Colombia, President Bush will also travel to Uruguay, Guatemala and Mexico before returning home next Wednesday.

The authors focused the logistic decision space questions on the use of guidelines for facilities in Ghana and Guatemala.

In Guatemala, no political party has held office for more than one presidential term since democracy was restored in 1986.

They compare them to similar groups which emerged in the aftermath of civil wars in El Salvador and Guatemala.

He organized a trip to Guatemala for influential American journalists.

While Castresana vowed to solve the case, the entrenched forces in Guatemala launched an all-out effort to destroy CICIG.

That points to a failure of government in Guatemala.

See multiple views of the 30-story-deep sinkhole in Guatemala that swallowed a three-story building in June.

Within months Vice President Nixon visited Guatemala.

upon my return to quezeltanango , guatemala ' s second largest city , i came across an orange juice stand outside of my hotel.

They owned vast banana plantations in Guatemala and Central America.

the remaining three are Guatemala, Pakistan and Nicaragua.

The IAS said that in Latin America, HIV prevalence remains highest in Guatemala and Honduras.

Illegal immigrants mainly from Brazil, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua and other Latin American countries, and some people from India.

The Chinese bell-flower is an ornamental flowering plant which actually came from Guatemala .

Case studies include Mexico, Guatemala, Cuba, Chile, and Central America. Same as Social Science 123A.

The peasants of Guatemala or the unemployed in Harlem are in no position to do so, obviously.

Once thecapital of Guatemala, Antigua was moved twice before it was abandonedand the capital set elsewhere.

Shortly afterward, the seat of government was moved to Guatemala City.

Like bigger than the "year" actually look inside a bowl together in Guatemala City.

She is due back in Washington late Friday after stops in Costa Rica and Guatemala.

I've seen areas in Guatemala, for example, where we used to have to truck in food, they are now producing food and selling it.

Many young people in Guatemala, the violence of organized crime were killed, causing concern in the community.

Only 6% of world output is of top quality, but in Costa Rica and Guatemala the figure rises to 60%, says Mr Torrebiarte.

That helps explain why 450, 000 hectares of Guatemala's Maya rainforest have been made over to 13 communities living there.

In 2007, a 300 foot deep sinkhole swallowed a dozen homes in Guatemala - killing 2 and causing thousands to be evacuated.

This amazing site is part of Guatemala's Tikal National Park and in 1979 was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

the closest rival to angkor , the mayan city of tical in guatemala , was roughly 50 square miles in total size.

Torre if elected would become the first female president of Guatemala.

These small producers, many of them women, now earn up to $ 800 dollars a month. That is four times the monthly wage in Guatemala.

The Guatemala Post also issued in 2010 a series of stamps dedicated to traditional children's games - cup-and-ball, kite, yoyo and top.

Visiting a small organic coffee farm in Guatemala.

GAPING HOLE: A giant sinkhole caused by rains from tropical storm Agatha is seen in Guatemala City on Tuesday.

Lt. Paul Shastany says Boc told police he wanted to return to Guatemala but can't afford a ticket.

Recently, a volcano erupted in Guatemala.

In the past, Peace Corps volunteers have worked informally with IAYS on sports programs in Armenia, Guatemala and Morocco.

What makes this even more distressing is that Guatemala is rich enough to prevent it.

The lawyer was shot dead while cycling in Guatemala City.

Was there any change in Wang Lan's view about Mexicans and people in Guatemala? Why?

The 30-story-deep sinkhole in Guatemala that swallowed a three-story building in June.

No real plan thus far- just keep moving south to Guatemala.

For the first time the US has cited for labor violations a country, Guatemala, that is a free trade partner with the US.

In the jungles of Guatemala, in Tikal, stands a temple.

I was, back in Guatemala.

And in Central America we ship to Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, and we are talking to two organizations in El Salvador.

People in Guatemala watched their soothsayer's left leg; if the right leg muscles twitched , the future looked bright.

A soldier guards food supplies that will be sent to victims of Tropical Storm Agatha in Guatemala City June 1, 2010.

Guatemala's Constitutional Court dismissed the attorney- general, Conrado Reyes, after just three weeks in the job.

A baby sits in a rocker inside a foster home in Antigua, Guatemala August 14, 2007 .

The ultimate test of CICIG's work will be whether Guatemala's authorities can do the agency's job for themselves.

Workers clean up ash from the Pacaya volcano during Tropical Storm Agatha in Guatemala City May 29, 2010.

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Guatemala has cut its army's nominal strength by two-thirds since 1996.

How did Wang Lan like the people in Guatemala?

People watch the swollen Madre Vieja river under heavy rains caused by Tropical Storm Agatha in Patulul, Guatemala, Saturday, May 29, 2010.

Controlling crime is even harder in weak Central American states such as Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

It's Guatemala. We don't belong anywhere else.

The film opens in the jungles of Guatemala.

AlsoFriday, a 5. 6-magnitude earthquake rattled western Guatemala, knocking out power in several cities.

"I want the particular virtues of Mali, Guatemala, Laos, " the tourist says, "a place where nothing has changed for centuries. "

Lima, July 28 Xinhua (reporter Zhang Guoying) was elected president of Peru 28 Guatemala Orleans Tau sworn in Congress.

Today there is about 14 mill. people living in Guatemala , where half of them is The Mayan indians.

28 people were killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.

Guatemala's obesity rate has quadrupled in 30 years.

I lost my family while in Guatemala.

Five years ago, 15-year old Maria Isabel left home in Guatemala City for work and never returned.

Guatemala's murder rate has doubled in the past decade.

It killed more than 100 people in recent days, most of them in Guatemala.

CIA operatives had helped engineer coups in Iran in 1953 and Guatemala in 1954.

The Micronesian island of Guam has the highest divorce rate in the world, and Guatemala has the lowest.

These are from Guatemala, but we're going to start getting mangoes from India.

Guatemala came second to bottom of a new index measuring inequality of opportunity in Latin America published by the World Bank last year.

So what I'd like to show you now, in the couple of minutes I have left, is a film that a student made in Guatemala.

View of a huge sinkhole caused by Tropical Storm Agatha, in Guatemala City, on May 31, 2010.

A series ofearthquakes in the 18th century led the Spanish crown to decree thatthe the capital be moved to present-day Guatemala City.

Lightning strikes through storm clouds over Agua volcano in Antigua, 32 km (20 mi) from Guatemala City, Guatemala on July 4, 2009.

Did you hear about the escaped llama in Guatemala?

Seeing Guatemala City's traffic for the first time in daylight persuaded me it's a place I probably wouldn't want to drive myself around.

In Guatemala the tax take is just 10. 4% of GDP.

is he took this menace to our backyard in Guatemala.

Now in her mid-20s, she was five years old when she came with her parents from Guatemala.

So weak are their judicial systems that in Guatemala, for example, only one murder in 20 is punished.

Angela: Oooh. Are you exhausted? Was Guatemala awful? Was it horribly backward?

In the fall of 2010, a friend from Guatemala sent Octavio a link to the TEDTalk.

For example, a producing country seller may offer a Guatemala Huehuetenango at 40 May09 NYC.

In Guatemala, tens of thousands of people attended a rally to call on the president, Á

She was twenty-one years old. I went to Guatemala and she had sold out the National Theater of Guatemala.

Alta Verapaz, Guatemala: People gather to watch the rescue efforts near the scene of a landslide

And for that we congratulate you and the people of Guatemala

Guatemala City, Guatemala: Protesters seen through a Congress building window

Domestic Water Consumption and Its Determination in Rural Guatemala

Joint Declaration by El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua: integration for the twenty-first century;

The blog Birdwatching Guatemala explains why Guatemala is so attractive to nature lovers

she was taken to a remote location in guatemala

CITS; International Commission of the Justice and Peace Committee of Guatemala;

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Mexico, Nicaragua, honduras and Guatemala reported deaths and destruction of crops and property

DANE; National Advisory Commission on the Negotiations between Belize and Guatemala;

Guatemala City, Guatemala: Activists perform in the street during a representation of the rebirth of local corn

MINUGUA; United Nations Human Rights Verification Mission in Guatemala;

Volcanoes in Guatemala Do Not Sleep

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Guatemala Hardware and Building Material Market Survey

Worldwide nightlife guide and social network, based in Guatemala

Guatemala City, Guatemala, 2010: A sinkhole covers a street intersection after tropical storm Agatha hit the area

Guatemala City, Guatemala: The corpse of an murder victim lies in the street

Guatemala, Venezuela Withdraw From Race for UN Security Council Seat

CUSG; Trade Unions Confederation of Guatemala;

Deterioration of Public Security in Guatemala

CONTEC; National Committee for Technology Transfer of Guatemala;

Trust Fund for the Guatemala Peace Process;

Guatemala - Investing In Health

Guatemala Sinkhole Not a Sinkhole

Modern Honduras and modern Guatemala

As planes flown by CIA pilots dropped bombs on Guatemala City,

saying that Moscow was planning to use Guatemala

New Populist President in Guatemala