An illegal immigrant dishwasher who lost $49,000 to the U.S. government as he tried to take it home to Guatemala will get some of the money back, his attorney said Wednesday.
The numbers are almost too large to fathom, so many Americans stop trying. As bodies pile up in disaster after global disaster, even the most sympathetic souls can turn away
More than 5,000 soldiers and police have fanned out across Honduras to fight a wave of violent crime that also has swept across El Salvador and Guatemala.
A double decker bus careened off a major highway and crashed into a ditch near Guatemala City Friday night, killing at least 57 people and injuring another 40, according to emergency officials.
An illegal immigrant dishwasher who lost $49,000 to the U.S. government as he tried to take it home to Guatemala will get some of the money back, his attorney said Wednesday.
The numbers are almost too large to fathom, so many Americans stop trying. As bodies pile up in disaster after global disaster, even the most sympathetic souls can turn away
More than 5,000 soldiers and police have fanned out across Honduras to fight a wave of violent crime that also has swept across El Salvador and Guatemala.
A double decker bus careened off a major highway and crashed into a ditch near Guatemala City Friday night, killing at least 57 people and injuring another 40, according to emergency officials.
Heavy rains and flooding have forced hundreds of thousands of people from homes in southern Mexico's state of Tabasco over the past four days, with nearly as many trapped by the rising waters, state officials said Thursday.
For many years, Guatemala has been a place of relatively uncomplicated adoptions for American parents. The small country's government estimates as many as 17 babies leave each day for adoptive parents in the United States.
For four hours Friday morning, I joined about 200 immigrants -- legal and illegal -- at a day-laborer site at the corner of East Columbia Avenue and Broad Avenue in downtown Palisades Park, New Jersey.
For 11 years, Pedro Zapeta, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala, lived his version of the American dream in Stuart, Florida: washing dishes and living frugally to bring money back to his home country.
Nine of 46 babies taken into custody by Guatemalan authorities after police raided an adoption home catering to Americans have been hospitalized with respiratory problems, officials said Tuesday.
Here are some facts from tonight's broadcast that you might find interesting. DANGEROUS IMPORTS New USDA regulations would allow poultry raised and processed in the US to be shipped to China, processed further and packaged for resale in the U.S. (applies to "cooked" poultry only -- not raw product). Chicken Export 1st 5 months of 2007 265 Thousand metric tons exported to China / Hong Kong market ($204 million) 1st 5 months of 2006 185 Thousand metric tons exported to China / Hong Kong market ($139 million) 47% increase Source: USA Poultry & Egg Export Council According to Jim Sumner, President USAPEEC, there is no Chinese poultry in U.S. for human consumption. Chicken Imports We currently import no poultry from China. Source: Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Foreign Trade Statistics TRASH AND ILLEGAL ALIENS REPORT ON TRASH AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS LEGALIZED IMMIGRANTS According to Citizenship and Immigration
The Austrian city of Salzburg and South Korea's Pyeongchang look to have edged ahead in a tight three-way race for the 2014 Winter Games after the International Olympic Committee said their concepts were "excellent".
In Europe, the streets are full of people wandering around in Brazilian national-team jerseys. On the streets of Rio de Janeiro, you see more and more people wearing jerseys of European club teams.
Some time ago my wife and I made a jungle safari at the Mayan site Tikal, in Guatemala. Unfortunately, any hopes of seeing wildlife were dashed by an early morning rainfall, despite the guide's repeated injunction to "transcend the trees" -- behind which, presumably, all manner of fauna lurked.
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Inmates from rival gangs clashed in three Guatemalan prisons Monday, leaving at least 31 prisoners dead before police restored order, the country's interior minister said.
An unusual-moving Pacific tropical storm threatened Guatemala and El Salvador on Wednesday, and forecasters said it may reach hurricane strength before landfall.
Police in Stockton, California, on Thursday night said a 12-year-old Guatemalan girl, who was the subject of an Amber Alert, has been found in nearby Tracy, California.
The United States will open the home portion of the final round of World Cup qualifying with a home game against Guatemala in Birmingham, Alabama, on March 30.
Excavations at a little-known Mayan ruin in Guatemala indicate it was once one of the largest and most sophisticated cities in the preclassic Mayan world.
Earlier this year, El Salvador adopted the U.S. dollar as its official currency, joining a growing band of Latin American nations that are "dollarizing" to fight inflation and attract foreign inves...
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