Immigrants in US are asking for money from home
Comments OffAn interesting article that I came across today about a family on how they were sending money home but now are receiving it. You can see the general effects on the economic indicators here in the us as well as abroad and see how it is effecting every nation not just the U.S.
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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 [...]
Play tells Guatemalan women's stories
Volunteering for the Presbyterian Church in a poor community in southwestern Guatemala in 2003, Jennifer Kepler would invite local women to literacy classes, but many turned her down.
“Either their husbands wouldn’t let them come, or they didn’t think they could actually learn to read,” said the 33-year-old Kepler, who worked in Viente de Octubre, named [...]
Guatemala Real Estate – Untapped & Mysterious Real Estate
While Guatemala emerged from a 36-year civil war in 1996 and has not experienced the second-home market activity of some of its Central American family members, more and more transactions are being recorded every year. Reasons for the increase can be traced to more curious, exotic buyers, increased political stability, and the modernization of the [...]
Guatemalan murder mystery threatens government
A slain lawyer’s taped accusations that the president wanted him dead threaten to topple Guatemala’s first leftist government in more than 50 years and have sharpened the political divide between rich and poor.
Attorney Rodrigo Rosenberg looked squarely at the camera as he foretold his death: “If you are watching this message, it is because I [...]
