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4-Year-Old Girl Sent to Guatemala in Immigration Dispute Returns to NY

A 4-year-old girl sent back to her family's native Guatemala in an immigration dispute earlier this month has returned home to New York, where she was reunited with her family early today. Emily Ruiz, who hadn't seen her family in five months, was greeted with hugs from her mother at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport,...

2010's Worst Disasters in Photos

For millions of people around the world, 2010 was the year the earth shook, volcanoes erupted and the weather brought deadly extremes. Click though the gallery below to see some of the most striking images from the year's natural disasters. To help disaster victims, go to Network for Good....

Obama Orders Review of 'Human Subjects' Safety

WASHINGTON (Nov. 24) -- President Barack Obama on Wednesday ordered a vast review to ensure that those who take part in U.S.-backed research are treated ethically, a response to the revelation that American scientists intentionally infected people at a Guatemalan mental hospital with syphilis in the 1940s. In a memo...

US Apologizes for Infecting Guatemalans With STDs

(Oct. 1) -- The United States has not been kind to Guatemala. On Tuesday, Wellesley College professor Susan Reverby discovered that the United States conducted Tuskegee-like experiments on unwitting Guatemalans during the '40s, infecting them with syphilis and gonorrhea. (Here's her paper.) MSNBC reports: According to...

Matthew Drops to Depression, Soaks Central America

GUATEMALA CITY (Sept. 25) -- 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 stay off the roads as floods hit several...

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Efrain Rios Montt, Guatemala Ex-Dictator, Gets Second Genocide Charge

A judge lodged a second genocide charge against a former Guatemalan dictator on Monday accusing him in the massacre of more than 200 villagers.

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Anyeli Hernandez Rodriguez, Girl Allegedly Kidnapped And Adopted, Will Not Return To Guatemala

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) â The U.S. government has told Guatemala it won't return a girl adopted in 2008 after allegedly being snatched from her Guatemalan mother, because the two countries had not signed the Hague Abduction Convention at the time of the kidnapping, a Guatemalan official said Monday.

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Reporting on Violence in Central America

On April 26, the Inter-American Dialogue held a discussion on criminal violence in Central America and US policy responses at the US Capitol building.

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06/03/12 Ex-Galaxy hero Ramirez implicated in Guatemalan scandal Source: MLS As the Guatemalan national team prepared for its final warm-up this past Friday night before World Cup qualifying resumes, the storm clouds were gathering around Estadio Mateo Flores, literally and figuratively.
06/03/12 Enjoy An awesome Guatemala Travel Experience Since you... Source: GMR (Ziff Davis) Mayan cities are distributed in various parts of the country but have their heart in Tikal inside Peten department.
05/22/12 Efrain Rios Montt, Guatemala Ex-Dictator, Gets Second... Source: The Huffington Post A judge lodged a second genocide charge against a former Guatemalan dictator on Monday accusing him in the massacre of more than 200 villagers.
05/15/12 Anyeli Hernandez Rodriguez, Girl Allegedly Kidnapped... Source: The Huffington Post GUATEMALA CITY (AP) â The U.S. government has told Guatemala it won't return a girl adopted in 2008 after allegedly being snatched from her Guatemalan mother, because the two countries had not signed the Hague Abduction Convention at the time of the kidnapping, a Guatemalan official said Monday.

Background on guatemala

Guatemala ( ), officially the Republic of Guatemala ( ), is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast.

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