Tag: Guatemala
Guatemalan President: spurious persecution should stop
Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo de León on Tuesday referred to the release of journalist José Rubén Zamora. Zamora spent more than 800 days in prison. The president called for an end to the “spurious persecution.” such as that of the former deputy of the Semilla party, Ligia Hernández. Related:Traffic Accident in Southern Guatemala Leaves 6 […]
October 22, 2024
Guatemalans To Know Sentence Against Military Who Murdered Belgian Priests
In 1999, the U.S. revealed the ‘Military Diary’ that recorded extrajudicial executions committed between 1983 and 1985. On Tuesday, the Mission of Solidarity from Belgium began a visit to Guatemala to deliver the life sentences handed down by a court in Leuven against five high-ranking former military officers for the murder, disappearance, and torture of […]
September 17, 2024
Guatemala: Authorities Counts 28 Deaths and 26,000 Evacuees During the Rainy Season
The rainy season in Guatemala has left 28 people dead and just over 26,000 people evacuated since May, official sources reported on Monday. Related:Guatemala Launches Measles And Polio Vaccination Campaign In Indigenous Regions The National Coordination for Disaster Reduction (CONRED) detailed that in addition to the 28 fatalities of the rain, 13 people were also […]
September 16, 2024
Supreme Court Strips 135 Former Convicts of Their Nicaraguan Nationality
Among them are U.S.-backed right-wing activists, including members of the evangelical group ‘The Mountain Gate Ministry.’ On Monday, the Supreme Court of Justice stripped 135 individuals of their Nicaraguan nationality after they were released from prison and expelled to Guatemala on September 5. RELATED: Nicaragua Greets Belizeans on the Anniversary of St. George’s Caye Battle […]
September 10, 2024
Guatemala: New COVID-19 Variants Circulating
The agency said it was important to resume the use of masks in people with respiratory symptoms or chronic illnesses, as well as covering the mouth and nose with the inside of the arm or with a handkerchief when coughing.
July 26, 2024
Deaths and Floods Have Left the Rainy Season in Guatemala
The deaths were due to landslides, floods, overflowing rivers and other incidents
June 21, 2024
Guatemala: Only 3 Out of 10 Primary School Children Can Read
Guatemala is also accelerating the process of improving more than four thousand of the 35,922 schools in the system, due to the state of neglect in which it found them.
June 10, 2024
Guatemala Counts 92 Active Forest Fires
On Wednesday, Guatemalan civil protection authorities counted 92 active fires, almost half of them in the north of the country, specifically in the department of Petén.
June 5, 2024
Guatemala Presents the National Anti-corruption Commission.
On Wednesday, Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo presented the National Anti-Corruption Commission. RELATED: Guatemalan Court Rejects Appeal in Favor of Seed Legisladores The executive body consists of the Minister of Finance, Jonathan Menkos, the head of the National Office of Public Administration (Onsec), Karla Gómez, the Secretary General of the Presidency, Juan Gerardo Guerrero, the head […]
February 28, 2024
Nicaraguan Governments Congrats Iran by Islamic Revolution Anniversary
”On the commemoration of the Glorious 45th Anniversary of the Iranian Islamic Revolution we wish on behalf of the People and Government of Reconciliation and National Unity of Nicaragua, our most sincere congratulations to you, your Heroic People and Government”, says the official statement of the Nicaraguan government. RELATED: Actions in Syria, Iraq, Pakistan Not […]