Zelaya leaves Guatemala for Nicaragua

By admin | Jul 16, 2009

Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya on Wednesday left Guatemala for Nicaragua to meet with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega.
During his stay in Guatemala, Zelaya urged the Honduran people to rebel against the Honduran interim government under post-coup leader Roberto Micheletti.
According to information reaching here from Guatemala City, during [...]

Guatemalan court rules in favor of tweet author

By admin | Jul 9, 2009

An appeals court found insufficient evidence to warrant the trial of a Guatemalan whose Twitter message led to his arrest on charges of inciting financial panic.
Jean Anleu was arrested and charged in May after sending a 96-character tweet that urged depositors to withdraw funds from a bank involved in a political-murder scandal. The message earned [...]

Metro in Guatemala???

By admin | Jul 7, 2009

Have we ever though of Guatemala as a city with a Metro? Usually, no. Recent tendencies have pointed out that feasibility and necessity are making this change, and people are starting to talk about Guatemala’s odds.
The First underground metropolitan transport system was born in London, 1863. It was steam powered until 1890, when it upgraded [...]

Guatemalan fears a tweet will make him a jailbird

By admin | Jun 28, 2009

Jean 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 turns to DNA to help solve war crimes

By admin | Jun 18, 2009

Guatemala 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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