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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Guatemala in uproar after lawyer predicts own murder — on YOUTUBE…
Comments OffRodrigo Rosenberg, a middle-aged Guatemalan lawyer, has become an unlikely YouTube star in macabre circumstances. In a video recorded last Friday at the offices of a friend, he sits behind a desk and talks at the camera for 15 minutes.
“If you are hearing this message,” Rosenberg begins, “unfortunately, it is because I have been murdered [...]
