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GUATEMALA: EXHUMATIONS
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U-S President Bill Clinton, on his current tour of Central America, hopes to lay the bones of this region's dark and bloody past to rest.
So does Guatemala, a country where an estimated 200-thousand people died in a 36-year...
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GUATEMALA: NEW PRESIDENT'S INAUGURATION ADDRESS
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Guatemala's new president has promised a fresh democratic future for his battered country.
Alvaro Arzu is the third popularly elected president to take power since military rule ended in 1986.
At his inauguration ceremony the...
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GUATEMALA: PREPARATIONS FOR CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS
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Christmas in Guatemala owes nearly as much to the Mayans as it does to Christianity.
While Guatemalans may decorate their Christmas trees along with the rest of Christendom, they also burn incense and dress up their saints in...
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GUATEMALA: WIDOW ACCUSES CIA OF INVOLVEMENT IN DEATH OF HUSBAND
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In an exclusive interview with APTV, Carole Devine, widow of an American innkeeper allegedly killed by a Guatemalan army colonel on the CIA payroll, asked that the United States government explain why her husband's real...
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US couple collect boy they've waited nearly five years to adopt, after law change
Five years of battling with bureaucracy in two countries came to an end for a Tennessee family on Saturday,
The Hookers - Jess and Ryan - were caught up in an adoption row in Guatemala, which meant they couldn't take their adopted son...
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Mexico/Guatemala - War Refugees Waiting To Go Home
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More than 37,000 indigenous Guatemalan refugees who fled to Mexico to escape the Guatemalan civil war now wish to return home. In exile for more than eleven years, the...
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Pres, Rigoberta Menchu visit as search for the dead goes on
1. Aerial of Lake Atitlan, with river of mud
2. Guatemalan President Oscar Berger touring devastated areas, talking to locals,
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Oscar Berger, President of Guatemala:
"Today we have the opportunity to address our...
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GUATEMALA: UNICEF EXPRESS CONCERN OVER CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
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Renewed concern is to be expressed by the United Nations this week about the plight of children in Guatemala.
It follows a UNICEF study which found widespread abuse of children's rights in the Latin American country.
This is the...
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GUATEMALA: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
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With Presidential elections in Guatemala less than three days away, candidates are wrapping up their campaigns to catch the attention of voters.
At least two-thousand people rallied in the streets of Guatemala City in...
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New AIDs campaign launched
1. Wide of forum and attendees
2. Mid shot demonstration by conference delegates holding up signs saying "We need more medication.. we need more assistance."
3. Mid shot of signing ceremony
4. Mid shot of President of EL Salvador...
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Guatemalan alleged to be top drug lord arrested
1. Various police photos of Otto Herrera and members of his group
2. Wide of Mexico''s Attorney General, Rafael Macedo de la Concha at press conference
3. Cutaway of press
4. Mid shot press conference
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Rafael Macedo...
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Panama chosen as consensus candidate in Security Council row
1. Wide exterior of United Nations
2. Mid shot of Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro arriving at UN building for meeting
3. Mid shot of Diego Cordovez, Ecuador's Ambassador to the United Nations, arriving for meeting (UPSOUND:...
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NICARAGUA: PRESIDENTS OF CENTRAL AMERICAN STATES FORGE UNION
Managua, Nicaragua - 2 September 19971. Wide shot of the flags of the nations attending the conference2. Wide shot of President Alvaro Arzu of Guatemala's arrival3. President Carlos Roberto Reina of Honduras's arrival 4. President Jose...
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu will run for presidency
1. Rigoberta Menchu (left), Nobel Peace Prize winner, embracing Nineth Montenegro leader of the Encounter Party
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Rigoberta Menchu, Nobel Peace Prize Winner (partially overlaid by side view of news conference)...
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Holocaust museum opens in Mexico City
1. Wide tilt up of museum exterior
2. Mid of museum sign
3. Wide of people during inauguration
4. Mid of Mexican President Felipe Calderon and museum director Sharon Zaga revealing commemorative plaque
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Felipe...
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Defence Sec in cooperation talks with counterpart
1. Wide shot to zoom-in of US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld and Argentina Defence Minister Jose Pampuro watching troops parade on the grounds of the Ministry of Defence
2. Mid shot of Rumsfeld watching
3. Wide shot of Pampuro...
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Protest at Mayan holy site President Bush is due to visit
1. Wide of Municipal Square, scene of protest
2. Medium of sign rejecting Bush's visit to Iximche
3. Various of protestors
4. Close of girl protestor
5. Wide of protest
6. Woman handing out leaflets
8. Police car patrolling behind...
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Nacen dos cachorros de leon en un parque de animales en el sur de Guatemala
Estos cachorros de leon nacidos en cautiverio en un parque zoologico en el sur de Guatemala han sobrevivido sus primeras semanas sin su madre.
Los cachorros nacieron hace mas de ocho semanas en el zoologico Auto Safari Chapin, a unos 90...
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Five Central American leaders meet President Bush to speak about trade
1. Wide shot of limousine entering US White House driveway
2. Nicaraguan President Enrique Bolanos stepping out of limousine
3. Limousine entering driveway
4. Ricardo Maduro, President of Honduras, arriving at the White House
5....
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Guatemala massacre comes with chilling message
HEADLINE: Guatemala massacre comes with chilling message
CAPTION: Guatemala has declared a state of emergency after 27 people were slaughtered at a cattle ranch over the weekend. The killers, believed linked to Mexico's Zetas drug gang,...
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USA: CASH URGENTLY NEEDED FOR HURRICANE VICTIMS
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Cash, not canned goods, clothing or even medicine, is the most urgent need of relief organisations in the devastated regions of central America - according to the Pan American Health Organisation (P-A-H-O).
The...
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Guatemalan president meets with OAS to discuss peace progress
1. President of Guatemala, Alfonso Portillo entering meeting
2. Children on screens singing Guatemalan national anthem
3. Close up of President Alfonso Portillo
4. Screens with green leaves
5. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Alfonso Portillo,...
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UN officials visit amid concerns of drought-caused food shortages.
A severe drought hitting Central America is causing the loss of crops and livestock for thousands of families in Guatemala.
The UN World Food Programme and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation said the drought was also affecting...
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GUATEMALA: SEARCH FOR SUSPECTS IN US STUDENT RAPE CONTINUES
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Guatemalan authorities are still searching for three more suspects in last week's brutal attack on a group of students and staff members from an American college.
The attack took place on Friday. Gunmen held up their bus,...