At least fourteen people were treated for injuries in Guatemala City, the capital of Guatemala, on Saturday after protests against the government budget for 2021 turned into clashes with the police. Shortly before that, hundreds of protesters had stormed and set fire to the parliament building. The Guetamala Red Cross had to treat protesters intoxicated … Read more
About 2.5 million people in Central America have been affected by hurricane and tropical storm Eta, the Red Cross estimates Tuesday. Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala have been particularly hard hit. Eta made landfall in Nicaragua last Tuesday as a hurricane. After that Eta passed like a tropical storm over Honduras and Guatemala. The storm is … Read more
The president of Guatemala took stock, this Friday, on the human toll of passage of cyclone Eta in his country. “We estimate that between dead and missing the (still) unofficial figures amount to more or less 150 dead”, Alejandro Giammattei said at a press conference. In total, Eta has left nearly 180 dead or missing … Read more
Tropical Storm Eta has caused more than 170 deaths in Central America. In addition, thousands of people have become homeless due to floods in Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala. In the countries many houses, roads and bridges have been damaged by the strong winds and heavy rainfall. Rescue work is made difficult because of the damaged … Read more
Dozens of people have died in Central America from Tropical Storm Eta. Thousands more people were made homeless by floods in Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala. “The situation is serious and must be dealt with professionally,” Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez told TV channel. HCH. Many people in the country have been stranded by the storm … Read more
Closing of beaches and nightclubs, mandatory masks, prohibition of mass gatherings: Restrictions tighten in several countries as fears grow of a second wave of the pandemic of Covid-19 and cases increase in Europe and Asia to levels of the first outbreak. The figures do not stop growing. Since it appeared in China in December, the … Read more
Guatemala city. The naturist Sunday Choc Che He was violently and publicly murdered on Saturday in the Chimay village of the municipality of San Luis, in the department of Petén, 377 kilometers northeast of Ciudad de Guatemala. A mob of residents of Chimay set fire to Choc, whom they accused of being a “sorcerer” and … Read more
Despite having had good football times and having been more than close in the qualifying rounds for Germany 2006, the truth is that Guatemala has never been able to classify a FIFA World Cup, since 22 editions of the maximum contest have already been held at the national level. Carlos “Pescadito” Ruiz, renowned former soccer … Read more
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA. – When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States in mid-March, visits to medical offices fell precipitously as people stayed home to protect themselves from the virus. But the order to stay home has spurred people to seek medical help in another way: talking to a doctor by phone, email or video, according … Read more
Guatemala City, Guatemala The security forces of Guatemala They arrested this Tuesday an alleged drug dealer requested by the United States for his extradition, several sources reported. The alleged drug trafficker, Amílcar Chávez Barrera, 41, was detained in “a strategic operation” in the department of Escuintla, about 100 kilometers south of Guatemala City, according to … Read more