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By Staff Report DAYTON -- In the absence of hospitals and most modern conveniences, the ailing people of La Labor, Guatemala, have one important resource, caring "amigos" from Grandview Medical Center. A team of doctors, nurses and support staff traveled to the town 18 miles out of Guatemala City for 10 days this spring. In this latest mission, they performed 77 procedures, including hernia operations, biopsies, hand surgeries, cysts removals, osteopathic manipulative therapy, pediatric...
By Keven Ann Willey, The Dallas Morning News Mar. 7--SAN CRISToBAL, Mexico -- Contrasts are what produce "wow" moments in Chiapas, Mexico's southernmost state. It's Mexican. But it's really more Mayan. The Spanish were afraid of the jungle and never succeeded in conquering the region. It's modern. Five airports, two large cities (Tuxtla Gutierrez, San Cristobal), better BlackBerry reception than in parts of Texas. But it's also ancient. The Mayans developed a number system based on...
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 Rotenberg, James A ABSTRACT.- Established parks and nature reserves may be inadequate to preserve long-term biotic diversity, especially in tropical regions of Latin America where anthropogenic disturbance and land- conversion is an ongoing problem. Demand for economically productive land uses, such as cattle pastures or monoculture plantations, is one of the greatest threats to habitat and wildlife preservation. As a result, conservation biologists have turned to examining attributes of...
By Mica Rosenberg GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Vinicio Aguilar, a radio journalist in Guatemala, was jogging near his house one morning this week when two men drove up on a motorcycle, shot him in the face and left him for dead. Aguilar, who survived, believes the attack was related to the daily call-in talk show he hosts, which regularly covers topics like organized crime, corruption and tax evasion by big businesses. "I think a pistol shot in the mouth is a clear message to silence...
By Peter HendersonNEW ORLEANS -- Gene and Laura Hindeland moved to New Orleans to party. Antonio Santos came for better wages that will help him get home to Guatemala. Mike and Diana Appel felt God called on them to help rebuild the city.From around the United States and beyond, an adventurous group of people is moving to devastated New Orleans, and the city they raise may be different from the one at felled by Hurricane Katrina a year ago.Some of these risk-takers are looking to do well,...
By Mica Rosenberg SANTIAGO ATITLAN, Guatemala (Reuters) - On the 25th anniversary of his killing by a Guatemalan death squad, an American priest was honored on Friday by hundreds of Mayan Indians at the church where his heart and intestines are buried. The Rev. Stanley Rother, who is being considered for sainthood, worked for 13 years with the poor in Santiago Atitlan, a town popular with foreign tourists, about three hours from Guatemala City. Priests and nuns who worked with Rother...
By Mica Rosenberg GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - An angry mob snatches two accused child molesters in a Guatemalan highland village, ties them to a lamp post in the central plaza, douses them with gasoline and threatens to burn them alive. After hours of tense negotiations, authorities convince furious villagers in San Cristobal Tonicapan to hand the men over to police. The attack last week was among the latest in Guatemala's long history of mob violence but officials and human rights...
By Mica Rosenberg GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemalan president Oscar Berger said on Monday his Central American nation is closer to getting the votes needed to beat U.S. antagonist Venezuela for a seat on the United Nations Security Council. "We have 98 countries backing us, I'm not going to mention names," Berger told reporters. Guatemala needs a two-thirds majority vote among 192 members of the U.N. General Assembly to replace Argentina as a non-permanent representative on the...
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - At least five people were fatally shot or slashed to death with machetes in Guatemala when peasant farmers tried to invade a large estate they had been evicted from, police said on Sunday. Some 200 families attempted to invade a property, called Finca Mocca, in the central department of Alta Verapaz on Saturday but clashed with armed peasants on the land, said police spokeswoman Myrna Morales. The human rights ombudsman's office said the armed peasants were...
Latest Guatemala Reference Libraries
The Grey-necked Wood Rail (Aramedes cajaneus) is a species of bird belonging to the Rallidae family. It can be found in Belize, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Columbia, El Salvador, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are tropical and subtropical moist lowland forests, tropical and subtropical mangrove swamps, tropical or subtropical swamps, and swamps. This...
The Red-throated Caracara, (Ibycter americanus), is a species of bird of prey in the Falconidae family. It is the only member of its genus Ibycter. It is sometimes incorrectly placed in the Daptrius genus with the Black Caracara. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. The habitats of this social bird are subtropical and tropical moist lowland forests...
The Highland Guan (Penelopina nigra) is a species of bird in the Cracidae family. It is found in the highlands of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, southern Mexico, and Nicaragua. Its habitat includes subtropical or tropical moist mountain forests. Populations of this species have declined in recent times. It was originally listed as a species of Least Concern in 1994, but then up-listed to Near Threatened in 2000. After studies confirmed the Highland Quail was less common than previously...
The Atitlan Grebe (Podilymbus gigas), also known as the Giant Grebe, Giant Pied-billed Grebe, and Poc, is an extinct species of water bird. It was endemic to Lago de Atitlan in Guatemala at an altitude of 5,600 feet above sea level. Before the bird became extinct, it was extensively studied by American ecologist Anne LaBastille for 25 years. Due to this, its decline is comprehensively known. The Atitlan Grebe reached a length of about 18 to 19.6 inches. Its appearance was similar to the...
The Blue-and-white Mockingbird (Melanotis hypoleucus), is a species of bird in the Mimidae family. It is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist mountain vegetation and heavily degraded former forest.
