Dozens of people are missing after the collapse of a huge mountain of waste in Guatemala. Most sought among the trash for useful stuff. Four people were killed and fifteen were injured, reported the board of the capital Guatemala City Friday.
Former Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina and his place substitute Roxana Baletti suspected of involvement in a new corruption scandal. The two ministers would have received bribes in the contracting of the construction of the container port of Puerto Quetzal. That was the indictment Monday.
Between Guatemala and Belize running tensions. The two Central American countries have sent troops to the border. Following the death of a thirteen year old boy from Guatemala last week.
The international airport of Guatemala City is closed Thursday due to an eruption of Fuego. The volcano spews lava and ash up to six kilometers into the sky, according to the Guatemalan newspaper La Prensa Libre. The axis is in the wide area of more than 3700 meters high volcano down.
Pregnant women in the coming period should not have to travel to parts of Latin America and the Caribbean. The American Public Health Institute, this has CDC said Friday because of the presence of the Zika virus.
The departure of the first Cuban refugees stranded in Costa Rica in large numbers, is forthcoming. The first flight leaves next Tuesday, declared the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Central American country.
At least eight prisoners were killed when inmates fell upon each other in a prison in Guatemala. At least twenty people were injured, said Eunice Mendizabal Minister of the Interior.
There seems to be a solution to be found for the thousands of Cuban refugees stranded in Costa Rica. The Central American countries have agreed to a pilot project, with which the asylum seekers from traveling to the US, as they want to. That the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica Monday (local time) said.
At least six people were killed Sunday in a prison uprising in Guatemala. Some of those detained have been armed with automatic weapons. The army and special police units were deployed to retake the prison, said a spokesman for the prison system.
The six Syrians were arrested in Honduras with false passports seeking work and have nothing to do with terrorism. They were not heading to the US but to Guatemala, said a source in the US government.
At the second and final round of presidential elections in the Central American Guatemala is showing signs of a clear victory for the popular TV comedian Jimmy Morales. The candidate of the nationalist party FCN state after counting more than half of the votes more than 74 percent of voters.
The popular TV comedian Jimmy Morales has great chance Sunday to be the new president of the Central American Guatemala. In an extensive survey Wednesday by the newspaper Prensa Libre was the candidate of the Nationalist Party FCN count on support from no less than 67.9 percent of voters.
The search for victims of a massive landslide in Guatemala has been suspended. The disaster came certainly 280 people died. Seventy people are still missing , reported the National Disaster Management Coordination ( Conred ) Tuesday.
An angry crowd has in western Guatemala lynched a mayor. Bacilio Juracán Leja was beaten first at each other instead Concepción and then fired, said the prosecution Monday .
The number of people killed by landslides in Guatemala has risen to 271. That have announced the emergency Saturday .
The Guatemalan authorities warn of new landslides in the area last week The damage caused by landslides. Forty families have had to leave their homes as a precaution.
The death toll from landslides in Guatemala has further increased to 253. There are still 374 people missing, the authorities said Friday.
