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Guatemala confirms first case of swine flu; Peru health min promotes measures.
Guatemala City, Guatemala
1. Various of people wearing masks at San Juan de Dios Hospital
2. Pan to Celso Cerezo, Guatemalan Health Secretary, speaking at news conference
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Celso Cerezo, Guatemalan Health...
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Guatemala - Election
Arzu heads for presidency in peaceful poll
Conservative businessman Alvaro Arzu took a big lead early returns from
Guatemala's presidential election on Sunday (12/11), but it was unclear whether he could claim victory without a run-off...
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Fuego volcano resumes activity, ash and smoke rise over crater
The Fuego volcano in central Guatemala has resumed activity, shooting lava and columns of ash into the air on Monday.
It overlooks the tourist city of Antigua and is one of Central America's most-active volcanoes.
The volcano has...
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USA: WASHINGTON: NUN TORTURED BY GUATEMALAN MILITARY UPDATE
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An American nun, who claims she was raped and tortured by a Guatemalan death squad, has released composite drawings of her alleged torturers.
Sister Dianna Ortiz believes one of her attackers of six years ago was a U-S...
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Presidential candidates hold final campaign rallies
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1. Wide of stage at Rigoberta Menchu campaign rally for Rigoberta Menchu - presidential candidate for the Encuentro Por Guatemala Party
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Rigoberta Menchu, Encuentro Por Guatemala Party:
"(We don't have...
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Experts exhume bodies from mass grave
1. Indigenous woman praying while family members are being exhumed
2. Close of human skeleton recently exhumed
3. Wide of remains exhumed
4. Close indigenous child
5. Close head of human skeleton
6. Close chart with drawings of...
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Former dictator speaks on presidential aspirations
Guatemala City, Guatemala - July 20, 2003
1. Various of people protesting against Former Guatemalan dictator and presidential candidate Rios Montt
2. Actors performing mime mimicking the destruction of the constitution
Guatemala City,...
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Anti-Bush protest ahead of US President arrival
1. Various of anti-Bush indigenous protesters with sign reading (in Spanish): "Get out Bush" marching towards US embassy
2. Protestors chanting UPSOUND (in Spanish): "Gringo (foreigner), go home. Stop the abuse."
3. Protesters...
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Anti-poverty candidate Colom wins presidency defeating former general
1. Wide of hall
2. Close up of graphic showing results of elections
3. Various of electoral commission
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Oscar Edmundo Bolanos, President of the Guatemala Elections Commission:
"The UNE (National Unity of Hope...
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USA: POSSIBLE CIA INVOLVEMENT IN GUATEMALAN DEATHS
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The Clinton administration came under increased pressure today (Thursday) to investigate allegations of CIA involvement and cover-up in the deaths of an American innkeeper in Guatemala and a Guatemalan guerrilla leader.
The...
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Guatemala - Ceasefire ends civil war
Ceasefire ends Latin America's longest civil war
Guatemalan government officials and guerrilla leaders have agreed details of a ceasefire agreement. When signed on Wednesday (4/12) in Oslo, the agreement will end 36 years of civil war....
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Profile of presidential candidates ahead of Sunday''s elections
Guatemala City, Guatemala - 4 September 2011
1. Various of Perez (in white shirt) with members of his campaign on stage in front of crowd (with many supporters wearing orange, the colour of Perez''s campaign)
2. Cutaway of people in...
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Two lion cubs, born in animal reserve and rejected by mother, survive critical first eight weeks
Two lion cubs born at an animal park in southern Guatemala have survived the critical first eight weeks of their lives without their mother.
They will be raised by humans because their mother is unable to care for them.
The male and...
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Latest on series of tremors which struck south east
1. Various of buildings damaged by the earthquake ++MUTE++
2. Mid of children inside a temporary shelter
3. Wide of temporary evacuation point
4. Mid of boys waving at the camera
5. Close-up of a sleeping baby
6. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)...
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USA: GUATEMALAN WINS INTERNATIONAL PRESS FREEDOM AWARD
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A leading Guatemalan human rights advocate and journalist has been given an International Press Freedom Award for his courageous work to ensure freedom of the press in his country.
Jose Ruben Zamora - whose life has been...
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Endangered white tailed deer released into tropical forest
1. Various of white-tailed deer
2. Iguana in tree
3. Various of hunter preparing a dart
4. Long shot of deer running
5. Men trapping a deer
6. Men carrying a deer
7. Various of deer being put into wooden box, man carrying box
8. Man...
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Latest on collision involving round the world power boat
San Jose Port, Guatemala - 20 March, 2007
1. Medium of coast guard officials/pull out to wide
2. Close-up of nose of "Earthrace" boat
3. Medium of boat "Earthrace" at port
4. Close-up of sign reading "Earthrace"
5. Wide of Earthrace...
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MEXICO: GUATEMALAN GOVERNMENT AND REBEL NEGOTIATORS MEET
Spanish/Nat
Guatemalan government and rebel negotiators meeting in Mexico will travel to Europe Saturday to sign three peace accords to end more than three decades of civil war.
Negotiators said the week-long round of talks in Mexico...
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Funeral of murdered human rights worker
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1. Scene where human rights worker Guillermo Ovalle was killed
2. Police arriving at scene
3. Injured man being attended to
4. Police carrying injured man to ambulance
Tacana - 1 May 2002
5. Indian rights activist and Nobel Peace...
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Guatemala - Peace agreement to end civil war
Guerrilla commanders arrived in Guatemala City Saturday and street celebrations began a day before the rebels and the government were to sign a peace agreement ending a 36-year-old civil war.
Among the first to arrive Saturday were...
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Italian FM meets, Mexican counterpart says will abstain in UN vote
1. Wide exterior of Italian Foreign Ministry
2. Wide of news conference
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luis Ernesto Derbez Bautista, Mexican Foreign Minister:
"Mexico has supported, since the beginning - for reasons of geographical vicinity...
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Dozens killed in landslide GRAPHIC PICTURES
1. Men pulling tree from mud
2. Men dig in the mud with their hands
3. Men digging
4. Pan right man in uniform places mud covered baby on stretcher
5. Girl looking on in shock
6. Pan right men carry mud covered body
7. Wide of rocks and...
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Guatemala - Social Change Agreement
Peasant fighters wring social changes out of government
Guatemalan government negotiators and rebel leaders on Monday
(6/5) signed a key agreement guaranteeing more financial support
and political power for Guatemala's rural poor in an...