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Molina Wins Guatemalan Presidency
AlHijjah 11, 1432, Nov 7, 2011, SPA - Retired army general Otto Perez Molina won Guatemala's presidential runoff Sunday by a 10-point margin over his rival, according to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal. With 95 per cent of the votes counted, Perez (...)

07 - 11 - 2011
Guatemala votes in presidential runoff
AlHijjah 10, 1432, Nov 6, 2011, SPA -- Guatemalans prepared to vote for president again Sunday, in a runoff between two candidates, dpa reported. The right-wing former general Otto Perez Molina led in polls going into the vote, with 48 per cent (...)

06 - 11 - 2011
Earthquakes Rattle Guatemala
Several strong earthquakes on Monday rattled Guatemala, sending residents in panic. At least three people were killed, according to the newspaper Prensa Libre which quoted rescue workers for its report. But there was no official confirmation. The (...)

20 - 09 - 2011
Polls open in Guatemala general election
Polls opened Sunday in general elections in Guatemala on Sunday, with 10 candidates vying to succeed outgoing President Alvaro Colom, according to dpa. Voters would also elect legislators and hundreds of mayors. The favourite to succeed Colom (...)

11 - 09 - 2011
Crime fears color Guatemala's presidential vote
Guatemalans anxious for relief from out-of-control crime lined up to vote for a new president on Sunday with the leading candidates promising to crack down on gangs and drug cartels terrorizing the country, according to Reuters. A 60-year-old (...)

11 - 09 - 2011
Tropical Storm Harvey makes land in Belize
Tropical storm Harvey hit the coast of Central America on Saturday, lashing Belize with strong winds and rain and threatening to dump more on sugar- and coffee-producing areas in the region, according to Reuters. The U.S. National Hurricane Center (...)

21 - 08 - 2011
Argentine singer Facundo Cabral killed in Guatemala
Argentine singer Facundo Cabral, one of the stars of Latin American folk music, was shot dead in Guatemala City early on Saturday when unidentified gunmen riddled his car with bullets, authorities said, according to Reuters. Cabral, who rose to (...)

09 - 07 - 2011
28 dead in Guatemala massacre
Police in Guatemala found 28 bodies on a ranch near the Mexican border in killings they said could be linked to the illegal drug trade. The bodies, including those of two women, were found Sunday in La Libertad, a town in Peten province, 500 (...)

16 - 05 - 2011
Massacre in northern Guatemala leaves 27 dead
Guatemalan national police say at least 27 people are dead in a massacre in a northern region overrun with drug traffickers, according to AP. The National Civil Police say 25 men and two women were killed in an ambush by gunmen in the town of (...)

15 - 05 - 2011
Guatemala Bus Accident Kills 14 Ex-Soldiers
At least 14 former Guatemalan paramilitaries were killed and 30 injured on Saturday when their bus fell into a ravine west of the capital, authorities said. The vehicle's brakes failed and the bus plunged about 165 feet (50 metres) into a ravine, a (...)

09 - 01 - 2011
At least 19 dead in Guatemala road accident
At least 19 people died and 47 were injured in a road accident in western Guatemala, dpa quoted the authorities as saying Monday. A truck carrying peasants - who often use such vehicles for cheap transport - fell down a steep ravine late Sunday (...)

29 - 11 - 2010
Matthew drops to depression, soaks Central America
Matthew weakened to a tropical depression Saturday along the coast of Belize, dousing the southern part of the Central American nation and neighboring Guatemala with rain that caused flooding in coastal areas. Guatemalan authorities urged people to (...)

25 - 09 - 2010
Guatemala nabs cocaine-stuffed submarine in Pacific
Guatemala's navy captured a makeshift submarine loaded with five tonnes of cocaine bound for the United States, the Guatemalan military said on Sunday, according to Reuters. The navy, which was working with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (...)

11 - 07 - 2010
Tropical Storm Agatha kills 150 in Central America
Flooding and landslides from the season's first tropical storm have killed at least 150 people and made thousands homeless in Central America, officials said. Dozens of people were missing and emergency crews struggled to reach isolated communities (...)

01 - 06 - 2010
Tropical Storm Agatha kills 131 in Central America
Flooding and landslides from the season's first tropical storm have killed at least 131 people in Central America, AP quoted officials as saying today. Dozens are still missing, thousands have lost homes and emergency crews are struggling to reach (...)

31 - 05 - 2010
Tropical Storm Agatha kills 16 in Central America
Torrential rains brought by the first tropical storm of the 2010 season pounded Central America and southern Mexico, triggering deadly landslides. The death toll stood at 15 Sunday but AP quoted authorities as saying the number could rise. Tropical (...)

30 - 05 - 2010
Pacific storm Agatha slams into Guatemala, 13 dead
Tropical Storm Agatha slammed into Guatemala's Pacific coast near the Mexican border on Saturday, lashing the region with torrential rains and killing at least 13 people. Agatha, the first named storm of the 2010 Pacific hurricane season, brewed up (...)

29 - 05 - 2010
Three killed in volcanic eruption in Guatemala
Three people were killed in a volcanic eruption in the Central American state of Guatemala overnight Friday, officials reported, according to dpa. The country's seismological institute Insivumeh said that more than 2,000 people were evacuated (...)

28 - 05 - 2010
Guatemala reports first death from H1N1 flu virus
Guatemala's Health Minister confirmed the country's first death from the H1N1 flu virus today, as the number of cases in the country rose to 254, according to Reuters. A 35-year-old man from Cuilapa, Santa Rosa, in southeastern Guatemala died (...)

25 - 06 - 2009
Plane crash in eastern Guatemala kills 10 people
Police say a small plane crash in eastern Guatemala has killed at least 10 people and injured four, according to AP. Police officer Luis Alberto Valey says the plane crashed Sunday morning about 60 miles east of Guatemala City. He says eight (...)

24 - 08 - 2008
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