Envenomation by a wild Guatemalan beaded lizard Heloderma horridum charlesbogerti .

This strategy is a radical new approach in the Guatemalan context.

The Guatemalan companies, by the way, have investments in Brazil , he said.

Meanwhile, the Guatemalan Congress ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

Rebuffed but undaunted, Ríos Montt founded a political party, the Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG).

Today, September 11, 2011, Guatemalan citizens will elect local, municipal, legislative and executive authorities.

His petition was first denied by the Guatemalan electoral authority and then by the Supreme Court.

I also admire the Guatemalan composer Ricardo Arjona, and have even recorded the song El Mojado .

The action claims that it is unconstitutional to exclude Maya textile creations from protection under Guatemalan intellectual property laws.

The indictment describes brutal crimes mass murders, rapes, and the dislocation of hundreds of thousands of people carried out systematically in the Guatemalan highlands.

The Guatemalan Maya have endured the theft and co optation of their textiles for years, both from foreign corporations and domestic non indigenous designers.

The Guatemalan Maya have endured the theft and co optation of their textiles for years, both from foreign corporations and domestic non indigenous designers.

Claudia Samayoa, a Guatemalan political analyst, calls it a blow against the victims, and against all those who have struggled in Guatemala for human rights and democracy .

Guatemala's Maya community also still live under the shadow of the Guatemalan Civil War that raged between 1960 and 1996 and massacred or disappeared 200,000 indigenous Mayas.

He was barred from the ballot by a provision in the 1985 Guatemalan constitution that prohibited people who had participated in military coups from serving as head of state.

The man that Guatemalan human rights organizations charge with responsibility for these acts is Efraín Ríos Montt, ruler of Guatemala during the scorched earth campaign of the early 1980's.

Many economists believe that a major reason for the quetzal s strength against the dollar in recent years has been the amount of drug money laundered through the Guatemalan financial system.

Thousands of Guatemalan indigenous people and campesinos (countrymen) participated in a nine day march to defend their lands, protest forced relocations, and call attention to other issues affecting rural communities.

As it turns out, the outfit worn by Barrillas on the direction of Guatemalan designer Giovanni Guzmán was a form of indigenous ceremonial clothing reserved exclusively for male elder leaders.

Approximately 83 percent of the people killed during the war were Maya, and countless others were victims of human rights violations committed primarily by the Guatemalan government and the military.

With performances that are equal parts therapeutic and empowering, Guatemalan theater group Las Poderosas (Powerful Women) is sending a powerful message for gender equality and against gender based violence from the stage.

The Guatemalan government has declared a state of siege in Santa Cruz Barillas, following demonstrations and clashes sparked by the death of a community leader who opposed the construction of a hydroelectric plant.

A few hours ago, after a long day of heady hearings, a Guatemalan court opened a criminal case for genocide against Retired Military General Efraín Ríos Montt and ordered him detained under house arrest.

The fields of education, politics and the media all belong exclusively to the Spanish language, while smiling white faces and messages in Spanish look down on the Guatemalan people from billboards across the country.

Guatemalan theater group Las Poderosas (Powerful Women) promoted healing and raised awareness of violence against women through their work in a country where two women a day are killed on average, according to the UN.

This was first demonstrated in the 1960 s, when Guatemalan researchers gave children in two randomly selected villages a nutritious porridge each day, and a much less nutritious fruit drink to children in two other villages.

Add to these the fact that many Guatemalan judges have functioned as agents of impunity rather than as servants of justice and a legal system that can be manipulated by the defense through a series of frivolous lawsuits.

15. Encourages the parties and all sectors of Guatemalan society to intensify their efforts to achieve the goals of the peace agreements, in particular the observance of human rights, including the rights of indigenous peoples, equitable development, participation and national reconciliation

However, she abstained from openly discussing immigration reform which could affect more than 400,000 undocumented Guatemalans living in the U.S. While many Guatemalan bloggers were eagerly anticipating the concert from heavy metal band Metallica, there are a couple of posts about Clinton's visit

Amira said she feels supported at YALLA, and has learned to believe in herself and her big ambitions she wants to be a heart surgeon even though some of her non immigrant classmates have told her she can't be a surgeon because she s Guatemalan.

He says that he is 28 years old, that he is Guatemalan, and that he and his girlfriend, Elsa Marlen, who was 19 years old and pregnant with twins, had barely begun their journey to the United States when Elsa Marlen disappeared in the township of Huixtla, in the state of Chiapas.