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Guatemala
Guatemalans began voting on Sunday (30/1) in a referendum on proposed constitutional reforms aimed at defusing the country's political crisis.
president ramiro de leon carpio voting and holding up ballot
general voting scenes
1.07 end of...
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GUATEMALA: TOTONICAPAN: RELIGIOUS FEAST OF SAN FRANCISCO CELEBRATED
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Pagan traditions have mixed with Christian fervour during the feast of San Francisco in the northern Guatemalan town of Totonicapan.
The annual feast dates back to the period of the Spanish conquest.
It's a colourful...
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Vice Pres of Taiwan arrives for visit
1. Taiwan's Vice President Annete Hsiu-lien Lu disembarking from plane, greeting officials
2. Wide shot of helicopter on helipad
3. Lu and Guatemala President Oscar Perdomo getting out of helicopter
Taiwan's vice president, arrived in...
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Putin arrives at IOC meeting to back Russian bid for winter games
1. Pull out to wide of Russian plane landing at Guatemala city airport, volcano in the background
2. Russian plane taxiing on the tarmac
3. Journalists awaiting arrival
4. Russian President Valdimir Putin coming down stairs of plane
5....
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Giant sinkhole swallows several homes, kills two teenagers
1. Various aerials of sinkhole
A 330-foot-deep sinkhole in the capital of Guatemala killed two teenage siblings when it swallowed about a dozen homes early on Friday and forced the evacuation of nearly 1,000 people in a crowded city...
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A volcano eruption in Guatemala has killed a reporter and left three children missing. A spokesman for the national disaster agency says television reporter Anibal Archila was hit by a shower of rocks spewing from the Pacaya volcano that overlooks Guatemala City.
HEADLINE: Raw Video: Deadly volcano blast in Guatemala
CAPTION: A volcano eruption in Guatemala has killed a reporter and left three children missing. A spokesman for the national disaster agency says television reporter Anibal Archila...
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SYND 09/3/70 US DIPLOMAT HOLLY AFTER RELEASE BY KIDNAPPERS - TWO GUERRILLAS RELEASED IN EXCHANGE TALK TO PRESS
A hostage exchange takes place to secure the release of the US diplomat Sean Holly in Guatemala. Two alleged guerilla fighters, Vidalin and Jose Monzon, are swapped for his release.
1. WS of Holly meeting the press in the garden of the...
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GUATEMALA: EARTHQUAKE: AFTERMATH
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A major earthquake has rocked Central America, killing at least 122 people across the region.
El Salvador was the worst hit with at least 120 people killed and about 1-thousand-200 people believed to be missing in the...
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GUATEMALA: CARGO PLANE CRASH
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A cargo plane crashed at Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City on Friday, destroying several houses.
Six people on the ground are reported to have been killed, including two children and a newborn baby.
The plane's...
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Former President Portillo extradited to US on charges of embezzlement
1. Tracking shot of former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo, being escorted to a small, private plane by security and surrounded by media
2. Mid of small white plane at the airport
3. Mid of Portillo getting on the plane surrounded...
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Search for survivors after massive quake kills more than 40
1. Wide of road damaged when quake struck
2. Mid of machinery trying to dig out truck buried in a sand mine after quake struck
3. Pan to machinery being used to dig out truck
4. Rescue workers waiting for truck to be dug out
5. Ground...
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Prison riot quelled after gunmen slay suspects in deaths of politicians
Guatemala City - 26 February 2007
1. Various of newspapers photos showing bodies in prison cells where police officers were killed
2. Headline reading: (Spanish) "Four policemen are executed in jail"
3. Newspaper showing mugshots of four...
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Latest after floods and landslides kill at least 180 across region
1. Various of aid being loaded onto helicopter to be transported to areas worst affected by storm
2. Bags of aid being arranged inside helicopter
3. Wide of aid on ground near helicopter
4. Helicopter taking off
5. Aerial of...
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Congressman negotiating switch to party of president-elect is shot dead
1. Close-up of crime scene tape with murder site in background
2. Mid of body on the ground behind a car
3. Mid of officials examining bullet-riddled car
4. Wide of journalists and bystanders behind crime tape
5. Mid of official...
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SYND 3 7 74 INAUGURATION OF NEW PRESIDENT OF GUATEMALA
Inauguration of new President of Guatemala, General Kjell Laugerud Garcia.
1. gv parliament
2. ms Carlos Arana Osorio gives up office sash
3. ms bishop and dignitaries
4. ms Laugerud accepts office sash
5. various top shots of tanks...
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Police catch former President Portillo after US indictment
1. Wide of helicopter landing
2. Mid of former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo climbing out of the helicopter under the supervision of United Nations personnel and police
3. Various of anti-riot police coming out of vans outside...
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GUATEMALA: HILLARY CLINTON VISIT
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U-S first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Guatemala on Wednesday to assess damage from Hurricane Mitch.
It seals the end of a week of high-level international visits lending support to storm-battered Central...
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SYND 13 2 76 EARTHQUAKE US RELIEF
This coverage is of disaster assistance to the earthquake victims of Guatemala.
1. aerial of damaged areas - villages of Chimaltenango and zaragoza
2. vs Lockheed C - 141 Starlifter landing and being unloaded
3. vs victims carried to US...
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GUATEMALA: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS UPDATE
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Turnout was low Sunday in Guatemala's third presidential election in ten years despite a cease-fire called by rebels.
The rebels are eager to work with a new government in order to end three decades of...
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A large, 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit parts of Southern Mexico and Central America early Monday morning killing two people and damaging infrastructure. (July 7)
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A magnitude-6.9 earthquake on the Pacific Coast jolted a wide area of southern Mexico and Central America Monday morning, killing at least two people and damaging dozens of homes.
The US...
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Pacaya volcano spews rock and ash
A volcano near Guatemala City erupted on Sunday shooting plumes of ash and vapour 2.3 miles (3.7 kilometres) high, while spewing glowing-hot rocks, the authorities said.
The eruption at Pacaya volcano is the latest round of activity at...
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Guatemala - Former rebel sentenced to 90 years jail term for ordering massacre of 22 people in 1988
Former rebel sentenced to 90 years jail term for ordering massacre of 22 people in 1988
Chimaltenango - 4 July 2014
1. Close up of leftist guerrilla commander Solano Barrillas' hands while he's inside a truck that took him to the court...
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A civilian helicopter crashed in bad weather Tuesday, injuring three aboard, and a Guatemalan air force helicopter sent to help went down soon afterward, killing its 10 crew and passengers, officials said.
HEADLINE Raw Video: Deadly helicopter crash in Guatemala
CAPTION: A civilian helicopter crashed in bad weather Tuesday, injuring three aboard, and a Guatemalan air force helicopter sent to help went down soon afterward, killing its 10...
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Guatemala - Massacre in northern Guatemala leaves 29 dead
Guatemala - Massacre in north leaves 29 dead ADDS more, GRAPHIC
Peten - 16 May 2011
1. Wide of cordon around bodies with security forces in the background
2. Wide of police standing next to building
3. Close of dead body with hands tied...