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Journalist on daily Prensa Libre shot dead at his home

nieuwsbank.nl     7 hrs ago    1 related    Send to a friend

Dinsdag 13 mei 2008 | Reporters Without Borders ] Reporters Without Borders today voiced its dismay at the murder of Jorge Mérida Pérez, of national daily Prensa Libre, who was shot dead at his home in Coatepeque, Quetzaltenango department in the west of

Worker describes scene at plant

desmoinesregister.com     6 hrs ago    Send to a friend

By NIGEL DUARA • nduara@dmreg.com • May 13, 2008 Postville, Ia – Tension pervaded St. Bridget’s Catholic Church on Tuesday, where about 400 people waited and watched for the next sign that their lives would again be lifted and tossed one day after the largest workplace raid in U.S. history....

Guatemala : solidarity the syndicate Sitrapeten

cnt-f.org     8 hrs ago    Send to a friend

A syndicate (SITRAPETEN) from Guatemala contact us to explain us the case of syndical represion they are suffer in an entrepise called Peten Agua Pura Salvavidas. Activist of this syndicate were attacked by the Police and some of them were victims of threaten with deaths. Here is the model of...

Update: Crowd greets detainees at Waterloo

desmoinesregister.com     21 hrs ago    126 related    Send to a friend

About 200 people started an impromptu vigil as detained meatpacking workers arrived by bus Monday evening after an immigration raid in Postville. ... By NIGEL DUARA, WILLIAM PETROSKI and GRANT SCHULTE • REGISTER STAFF WRITERS • May 12, 2008 Postville, Ia. – Buses have...

Merida Initiative Takes Aim at Transnational Crime

usmission.gov     15 hrs ago    1 related    Send to a friend

By David I. McKeeby Staff Writer Washington -- Through the Merida Initiative, the United States, Mexico and several Central American countries are confronting the shared threat of transnational organized crime, says a top U.S. diplomat. “The United States has a compelling strategic interest in moving...

Reaching the people

indiancountrytoday.com     19 hrs ago    Send to a friend

Mayan TV broadcasts in Guatemala HOUSTON - The time was right. On April 23, a television station that once was the voice of the Guatemalan military dictatorship that had massacred thousands o ... Mayan TV broadcasts in Guatemala HOUSTON - The indigenous people of...

CPJ condemns murder of Guatemalan journalist

nieuwsbank.nl     18 hrs ago    Send to a friend

[ Dinsdag 13 mei 2008 | Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) ] New York, May 12, 2008--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the murder of Jorge Mérida Pérez, a correspondent in Quetzatenango province for the national Guatemalan daily Prensa

US National Telecom Opens Office in Guatemala

tmcnet.com     yesterday    Send to a friend

US National Telecom Opens Office in Guatemala ... US National Telecom (USNT), a VoIP company, will open a branch office in Guatemala with an initial capacity of $57,000 revenue per month. The entire capacity has been pre-sold to calling card companies in the USA. This...

Adoption Rules Tighten Abroad

rhrealitycheck.org     yesterday    Send to a friend

For the first time since international adoption began growing in popularity two decades ago, so many countries have either shut their doors to adoption, tightened their rules or increased domestic adoption that it's now far harder to adopt overseas. This is changing the course of a "revolution"...

Guatemala's Mayan heart

telegraph.co.uk     yesterday    Send to a friend

Exploring subtropical rainforest and exotic wildlife, Sarah Shuckburgh journeys to the heart of Guatemala's ancient Mayan civilisation and finds towering temples and riveting views. ... The Mayan empire stretched from Guatemala into Mexico's Yucat_n peninsula, south into...