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CLEAN : Local craftsman elaborate costumes for Guatemala festivities
Local craftsman in the Guatemalan department of Quiche elaborate costumes for festivities in honour of the patron saint Virgen de la Asuncion an event that was declared part of the Nations Cultural Heritage in 2003
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VOICED : Mujeres Nobel del a Paz demandan cese minero en Guatemala
Cuatro mujeres Premio Nobel de la Paz se reunieron el jueves en Guatemala para pedir el cese de la actividad minera en ese pais y brindar su apoyo a las comunidades indigenas afectadas por los proyectos extractivos
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VOICED : Threatened by Trump but united by football
An unusual football team trains every Saturday in the Bronx
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CLEAN : Nobel Peace laureates call for Guatemala to end all mining
Four Nobel Peace Prize laureates called Thursday for the end of all mining activity in Guatemala as the women from Yemen, Iran the US and Guatemala denounced its negative environmental impacts and a criminalization of communities who...
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CLEAN : Football: US judge sentences Guatemalan in FIFA scandal
A US judge imposes the first sentence in the sweeping FIFA corruption scandal sending a Guatemalan former official to jail for eight months and saying that he had destroyed people's faith in soccer
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CLEAN : Guatemalans worship saint revered by prostitutes and gangsters
Lighting candles to the music of Mexican style mariachis hundreds of Guatemalans worship San Simon on Saturday at a small temple in San Andres Itzapa in a celebration held October 28 to honor the saint who is popular among prostitutes...
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CLEAN : Football: US judge imposes first sentence in FIFA scandal
A 63 year old former Guatemalan football official received an eight month jail term Wednesday the first person sentenced by a US judge over the sweeping corruption scandal that rocked world soccer
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VOICED : Expresidente guatemalteco Otto Perez a juicio por corrupcion
El expresidente de Guatemala Otto Perez (2012-2015) en prision desde hace dos anos enfrentara un juicio por el delito de asociacion ilicita enriquecimiento ilicito y defraudacion aduanera segun determino el viernes el juez penal en un...
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CLEAN : Guatemalan Mayas commemorate end of civil war
A few dozen Mayas mark the 21th anniversary of the end of the civil war in Guatemala praying for a true peace after a conflict that left more than 200.000 dead and missing between 1960 and 1996
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CLEAN : Oxfam chairman arrested in Guatemala
The chairman of under fire British charity group Oxfam International Juan Alberto Fuentes Knight was arrested Tuesday in his native Guatemala in a swoop related to government graft allegations officials said
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CLEAN : Oxfam chairman arrested in Guatemala (2)
The chairman of scandal hit British charity group Oxfam International Juan Alberto Fuentes Knight was arrested Tuesday in his native Guatemala in a swoop related to government graft allegations officials said
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CLEAN : Dead fish in polluted river raise alarm in Central America
Thousands of fish have died in recent days due to contamination in the Lempa River caused largely by water that is used for washing coffee beans in processing plants that do not have a wastewater treatment system
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Family members hold wake for Guatemalan shot at U.S. border
The body of a young Guatemalan woman who was shot dead last week by a U.S. border agent near Laredo, Texas, was laid out in a white coffin for her wake on Friday.
The body of Claudia Patricia Gomez was taken to her hometown...
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CLEAN : Guatemala president doubles down on expulsion of UN investigator
Guatemala's president Jimmy Morales doubled down Tuesday on his decision to expulse Ivan Velasquez head of the UN International Committee Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) even after his move sparked protests and international criticism
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Wake for Claudia Gomez begins in Guatemala
The body of a young Guatemalan woman who was shot dead last week by a U.S. border agent near Laredo, Texas, was laid out in a white coffin for her wake on Friday.
The body of Claudia Patricia Gomez was taken to her hometown...
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Migrants Face Tough Road To U.S. Asylum
The caravan of Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States sought the world's attention as scores of migrants traveled through Mexico on a journey to escape their violent homelands.
Now that the group has arrived...
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Recovery efforts from Guatemala volcano underway as death toll rises to 33
Rescuers on Monday pulled at least 10 people alive from ash drifts and mud flows that poured down the slopes of Guatemala's erupting Volcano of Fire, but officials said at least 33 people were dead and the toll was expected to rise.
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Rescue efforts continue in area devasted by volcano
Authorities cautiously resumed search and rescue operations on Wednesday in towns and villages devastated by the eruption of Guatemala's Volcano of Fire, with time quickly running out to find any survivors.
In the...
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VOICED : Ceremonia maya para recordar fin de guerra civil en Guatemala
Indígenas guatemaltecos recordaron el viernes el fin de la guerra civil hace 21 anos y frente a un altar de fuego y flores rogaron por encontrar una paz verdadera tras el conflicto que dejo 200.000 muertos y desaparecidos entre 1960 y 1996
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CLEAN : Chemical waste in Lempa river killing tourism and animal life
Forty five villages on the border of the Lempa river that crosses Guatemala Honduras and El Salvador have come together to combat the pollution created by chemical waste which is killing tourism and animal life
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People flee erupting volcano in Guatemala
Guatemalan officials say more than 3,200 people have been evacuated due to a volcanic eruption that has killed at least 25 people.
The country's disaster agency said on Monday that the death toll remains at 25, though there...
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Families in Guatemala keep searching for bodies after volcanic eruption
Friends and relatives of the missing volcano victims are asking Guatemala's President Jimmy Morales to bring heavy machinery to the areas devastated by Sunday's explosion.
"We are struggling to see if we can find the...
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VOICED : Miles de guatemaltecos exigen renuncia de presidente Morales
Miles de estudiantes universitarios y activistas sociales marcharon el jueves en la capital de Guatemala para exigir la renuncia del presidente Jimmy Morales quien mantiene una ofensiva contra una mision antimafias de la ONU que ha...
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CLEAN : No imminent eruption expected says Guatemala seismologist
No imminent eruption is expected over the next few days says the head of Guatemala's National Institute of Seismology during a presser after the Fuego volcano erupted leaving a death toll of at least 65