Guatemala News

Three human heads and three decapitated bodies with notes aimed at high government officials were found Thursday in different parts of Guatemala's capital, national police said.

" Alexander Nixon has brought a little bit of Brooklyn to hundreds of coffee farmers in Guatemala.

For three days I've been traveling the villages of Lake Atitlan, watching the slow shift from disaster to windfall.

Assessment On Storm damage continues in Guatemala GUATEMALA - Guatemalan authorities continued on Monday the assessment of the damage caused by tropical storm Agatha, which also left 172 dead.

The recent tropical storm, Agatha, which left at least 172 dead and a giant sink hole in Guatemala City brought back memories for me of Hurricane Mitch, which dropped a historic rainfall on Guatemala in 1998.

In the aftermath of tropical storm Agatha, global humanitarian organization Action Against Hunger ACF International is providing emergency relief to 50,000 people in the hard-hit region of Escuintla, Guatemala, where severe flooding has destroyed homes, contaminated drinking water, and threatened food supplies for thousands of families.

A member of a U.S. Navy construction battalion, Mendez, 21, served in Iraq and, after a stint stateside in the next year, is due to be shipped to Afghanistan.

If true, it must be a truly remarkable weapon since it left the corner of a building untouched and hanging over the hole.

Dozens of people were missing and emergency crews struggled to reach isolated communities cut off by washed-out roads and collapsed bridges caused by Tropical Storm Agatha.

Dennis and Sue Santkuyl of Freedom have seen firsthand what a tropical storm can do to farmers and families in a developing country.

In just the past seven days, residents of Guatemala and parts of neighboring Honduras and El Salvador have had to cope with a volcanic eruption and ash fall, a powerful tropical storm, the resulting floods and landslides, and a frightening sinkhole in Guatemala City that swallowed up a small building and an intersection.

Villagers used hoes and pick axes on Tuesday to hunt for victims of landslides that have killed at least 180 people in Central America while officials in Guatemala's capital tried to cope with a vast sinkhole that swallowed a clothing factory.

Villagers used hoes and pick axes to hunt for victims of landslides that have killed at least 179 people in Central America while officials in Guatemala's capital tried to cope with a vast sinkhole that swallowed a clothing factory.

Villagers used hoes and pickaxes to hunt for victims of landslides that have killed at least 179 people in Central America while officials in Guatemala tried to cope with a vast sinkhole that swallowed a clothing factory.

Ormat Technologies, Inc. announced that due to the May 28 volcanic eruption of Volcano De Pacaya in Guatemala its 20MW Amatitlan power plant was temporarily shut down in order to safeguard equipment.

Stunned victims of Tropical Storm Agatha wept by destroyed homes and rescue crews dug bodies out of mud in Guatemala on Monday after torrential rain killed at least 132 people across Central America.

Flooding and landslides from the season's first tropical storm have killed at least 144 people and left thousands homeless in Central America, officials said Monday.

Eleven Foothills Community Christian students and three alumni recently brought a smile to the faces of children in Guatemala.

President Barack Obama brought his family home to Chicago for a long Memorial Day weekend.

Torrential rains brought by the first tropical storm of the 2010 season pounded Central America and southern Mexico, triggering deadly landslides.