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GUATEMALA: Ok for Ex-President's Extradition to US Just One Step

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:04:51 VET

GUATEMALA CITY, Mar 18, 2010 - Civil society groups in Guatemala say a court decision authorising former Guatemalan president Alfonso Portillo's extradition to the United States is just a first step in a lengthy process.

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Theater event Women forging Dreams

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:04:49 VET

Guatemala, Antigua - Cultural event at Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española en Antigua Guatemala.

Invitation for next Saturday, November 22 at 18:00 pm. Play: "Women forging Dreams," Mujeres fraguando sueños, by the theater company Abrego (Cantabria / Spain). The entrance to the ev

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Guatemala's anti-drug tsar arrested

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:31:23 VET

Guatemalan security forces have arrested the country's anti-drug tsar and national police chief in a case involving stolen cocaine and murdered police officers.

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LATINBIZ presents Ms. Ruby Ortiz, Guatemalan, with Woman of Virtue award in Florida

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:31:22 VET

Women of Virtue is an award presented to ten outstanding women from South Florida every year by LATINBIZ. Among the 2008 honorees is Ms. Ruby Ortiz, Guatemalan. She has been serving the South Florida business community for more than 10 years in management development, business consulting and Coachi

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Malvinas issue gains support at summit

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:12:43 VET

President Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner yesterday said Latin American leaders backed her objections to British oil exploration in the Malvinas islands at the Rio Group summit taking place in Mexico, as drilling began on the first well.

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How to save money on your telephone bill

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:12:41 VET

Be a smart customer of tele-communication services. How? Here are some tips.If you have a computer and a decent bandwidth (minimum 33.6 Kbps), use free software like Skype to make calls.All you need is a microphone and speakers that already are included in most modern computers. You need a decent b

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Bedford Man Extradited from Guatemala in Child Sex Abuse Case; Pleas Not Guilty

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:40:18 VET

Last week, 30-year-old Cesar Joel Sagastume Morales - a day laborer - was extradited from Guatemala in order to face charges that he sexually abused a 9-year-old girl from Bedford.

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Climate Change and “Climategate”

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:40:14 VET

COPENHAGEN - Thousands of politicians, bureaucrats, and environmental activists have arrived in Copenhagen for the COP15 global climate summit with all the bravado - and self-regard - of a group of commandos who are convinced that they are about to save the world. And, although the political differ

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Statement from the Governor General of Canada and the President of the Republic of Guatemala

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:48:49 VET

The Right Honourable Michaelle Jean, Governor General of Canada, is undertaking a State visit to Guatemala from December 9 to 12, accompanied by her husband, Mr.

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Financing the Fight against Climate Change

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:48:47 VET

COPENHAGEN - It is now generally agreed that the developed countries will have to make a substantial financial contribution to enable the developing world to deal with climate change. Funds are needed to invest in new low-carbon energy sources, reforestation and protection of rain forests, land-us

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Governor General Arrives in the United Mexican States

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:09:00 VET

Editors note: A photo is included with this press release on Marketwire's website.

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Spanish judge tries Guatemalan Genocide case, Operation Sofia

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:08:58 VET

SPANISH JUDGE HEARS TESTIMONY FROM EXPERT WITNESSES IN THEGUATEMALA GENOCIDE CASE. FORENSIC EVIDENCE OF MASS MURDER, ARMY DOCUMENTS, AND FILMED INTERVIEWS WITH ALLEGED PERPETRATORS WILL BE INTRODUCED

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Guatemala ex-colonel sentenced to prison for enforced disappearances in civil war

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:22:52 VET

Marco Antonio Sanchez and three of his subordinates, Jose Domingo Rios, Gabriel Maldonado Alvarez Ramos and Solomon Rivers, guilty of enforced disappearance [ Prensa Libre report, in Spanish]. On October 19, 1981, eight people from the village El Jute, in the province of Chiquimula, were seized by

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Lynching and Mob violence in Guatemala, why?

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:22:50 VET

Guatemala City.- Humanitarian organization, Group of Mutual Support, GAM, Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo de Guatemala, has released the latest data on lynching's and mob violence in Guatemala. According to GAM in 2008 there where 8 deaths caused by mob violence and 102 injured. In 2009, to this date, there a

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Alleged murderer burned by mob

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:07:08 VET

Guatemala City - Enraged Guatemalan villagers beat and burned to death a suspected murderer on Sunday, police said, continuing a spate of mob killings of suspected criminals.

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Mountains and Minarets

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:07:06 VET

New York - Switzerland has four mosques with minarets and a population of 350.000 nominal Muslims, mostly Europeans from Bosnia and Kosovo, of which about 13% regularly go to prayer. Not a huge problem, one might have thought. Yet 57.5% of Swiss voters opted in a referendum for a constitutional ban

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Guatemala Vigilantes Kill 5th Suspect In 3 Days

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:39:36 VET

A mob beat a suspected criminal to death Sunday and threatened to burn three women who were with the victim, authorities said Sunday.

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The Limits of Dubai

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:39:35 VET

Cambridge - Global investors are in a giant huff over Dubai's decision to allow its flagship private company Dubai World to seek a six-month standstill (implying at least partial default) on payments on some $26 billion in debt. What exactly did investors expect when they purchased bonds in compani

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Holiday gifts: Cheese and coffee samplers

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:41:13 VET

Here in Fat City, we hope to help reduce your annual stress of picking out gifts.

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Shifting the Afghan "Great Game"

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:41:10 VET

Tel Aviv - So President Barack Obama has decided to "stay the course." The obstinate battle cry of the Bush administration in Iraq has now won out in Obama's planned surge of an additional 30,000 troops in Afghanistan. A Taliban victory there, the advocates of the surge had warned, would radicalize

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