Guatemalan fears a tweet will make him a jailbird
Comments OffJean Anleu was so fed up with corruption in his country that he decided to vent on the Internet, sending a 96-character message on the social-networking site Twitter. That message has now earned him a potential five-year prison sentence and the unfortunate distinction of becoming one of the first people in the world to be [...]
Guatemala presentation shows many sides of country
Comments OffPresenters at a Guatemala-themed event Wednesday evening showed there is more to the country than the often-heard stories of poverty.
“Guatemala is moving forward; Guatemala is starting to do a lot of manufacturing and a lot of exporting,” said Maritza Gibbs, a Guatemala native who now lives in Luverne.
She talked of the country’s major production areas, [...]
Guatemala turns to DNA to help solve war crimes
Comments OffGuatemala opened its first DNA testing lab on Wednesday hoping that genetic fingerprinting will help solve decades-old civil war crimes as well as more recent murders.
Guatemala’s Forensic Anthropology Foundation opened the $1.5 million laboratory funded by international donations to identify victims excavated from hundreds of mass graves from the 1960-1996 civil war.
More than a quarter [...]
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Guatemala seizes 9.9 million pseudoephedrine pills
Comments OffGuatemalan authorities confiscated nearly 10 million pseudoephedrine pills worth $33 million on Tuesday — the country’s biggest seizure of the methamphetamine precursor, police said.
The 9.9 million pills were seized from a shipping container at Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala’s main port on the Pacific coast, said police spokesman Donald Gonzalez.
The container bore a shipping manifest listing the [...]
