Guatemala City Local News

A man in Guatemala Jean Anleu has become one of the first people in the world to be arrested for using Twitter.

GUATEMALA CITY — Jean Anleu was so fed up with corruption in his country that he decided to vent on the Internet, sending a 96-character message on the social-networking site Twitter.

GUATEMALA CITY--A 35-year-old man has become Guatemala's first government-confirmed swine flu fatality, health officials said Thursday.

Source: Reuters GUATEMALA CITY, June 25 (Reuters) - Guatemala's Health Minister confirmed the country's first death from the H1N1 flu virus on Thursday, as the number of cases in the country rose to 254. A 35-year- ...

(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Very few people in Guatemala think Álvaro Colom is guilty of the assassination of lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg, according to a poll by CID-Gallup. Only eight per cent of respondents believe the president is responsible for Rosenberg’s murder.

For the week, Chicago wheat closed $.16 higher; Kansas City wheat $.22 higher and Minneapolis wheat $.05 higher. The weekly export sales report showed net sales of 285,200 metric tons were down 39 percent from the previous week and 30 percent from the prior 4-week average.

DALY CITY, California, United States—Just over six months ago, San Francisco put into effect an ordinance that provides its residents with municipal identification cards, the SF City ID Card.

Guatemala City, July 3 : A man who raped his nine-year-old daughter was lynched and burnt alive by a mob in the Guatemalan town of San Juan Sacatepequez, the police said.

Unrest has also erupted in Guatemala and Nicaragua in the past year, and the region is dealing with powerful organized crime and drug traffickers.

GUATEMALA CITY - Jean Anleu was so fed up with corruption in his country that he decided to vent on the internet, sending a 96-character message on the social-networking site Twitter. That message has now earned him a potential...