Latest Guatemala City Stories
Integrated Neighborhood Approach Hailed as Model for Urban Upgrading Mixco, Guatemala (PRWEB) December 14, 2012 PCI (Project Concern International) was awarded a $2 million Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Agency for International Development's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) to transform high-risk urban neighborhoods in the Municipality of Mixco, Guatemala, into healthier, safer and more productive communities. The 24-month project, called Barrio Mío, is...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Guatemala’s Volcan del Fuego, one of the country’s most famous tourist attractions, erupted Thursday, spewing a cloud of ash more than 2 miles into the sky and forcing authorities to order the evacuation of thousands as lava raced down the mountain’s slopes. More than 33,000 residents in surrounding communities were ordered to leave their homes and seek shelter at safer grounds after a series of powerful eruptions sent the...
PLANTATION, Fla., Aug. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- C3/CustomerContactChannels ("C3"), a global provider of customer management solutions, has opened a new customer contact center in Guatemala City, Guatemala to serve its growing client base. The new location will handle inbound customer service and reservations calls, in both English and Spanish language, that originate from the United States and other parts of Latin America. Initially, agents will handle reservations and customer...
GUATEMALA CITY, Sept. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Movilway, one of the leading platforms of prepaid mobile top-up in Latin America, announces its presence in Guatemala to provide their electronic recharge services. Movilway's cutting-edge technology gives customers the freedom to safely and conveniently buy credits on their mobile phones or those of others, regardless of their distance or location. As one of its main novelties, prepaid top-up will be available through any of the 96 bank...
LAS VEGAS, May 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Mr. Richard Gilbertson reports: IGEN has established offices in the US (212-518-6099), Canada (778-786-2922) and Honduras, Central America (630-299-0066). IGEN's email address is igen1000@gmail.com. Our website www.igen-networks.com is being constructed to reflect our growth internationally and will be operational within several days. IGEN is also pleased to announce the appointment of three new members to the Advisory Board, who will assist the...
GUATEMALA CITY, Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cancer patients in Guatemala and across Central America now have access to advanced radiotherapy treatments, including intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) with RapidArc(R) technology. Hope International Centro de Radioterapia has become the first treatment center in Latin America to install the fast new treatment capability from Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR). With RapidArc, Hope International Centro de Radioterapia, a new...
By JUAN CARLOS LLORCA GUATEMALA CITY - Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate "bad spirits" after President Bush visits next week, an official with close ties to the group said Thursday. "That a person like (Bush), with the persecution of our migrant brothers in the United States, with the wars he has provoked, is going to walk in our sacred lands, is an offense for the Mayan people and their culture," Juan Tiney, the director of a Mayan...
By Mica Rosenberg GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala has rehired a battalion of former soldiers to help police combat rising gang violence, raising concern in a country that has struggled to rely less on its once all-powerful army. More than 2,000 ex-soldiers began patrolling in olive uniforms this week alongside the civilian police force set up to take over law enforcement duties from the military after the country's 1960-96 civil war against leftist rebels. They will mostly patrol...
By Bernd Debusmann, Special CorrespondentGuatemala City (Reuters) - It began with an assignment to photograph slum kids, which prompted the idea of letting children scavenging for a living in a municipal garbage dump take pictures of their world. The experiment, unique at the time, was meant to last for six months.That was in 1991. The experiment turned into a project, Fotokids, that will mark its 15th anniversary this year and has produced riveting photographs shown in exhibitions from Tokyo...
By Frank Jack Daniel GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Raging flood waters cut off large areas of Central America and southern Mexico on Thursday, hurting efforts to rescue victims of mudslides that have killed at least 164 people in the wake Hurricane Stan. Emergency teams battled to reach remote villages where hillsides collapsed under torrential rains, and thousands of evacuees from urban shantytowns hunkered down in emergency shelters as rain pounded the region. "We have lots of...
