GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala -- Sandra doesn't go outside after dark anymore. She lives in one of this city's most notorious areas, where rival gangs hav...
Lys Anzia | Posted 11.18.2009 | Impact
"During my most difficult moments and complex situations I have been able to dream of a more beautiful future," Menchu Tum says with conviction.
Al Eisele | Posted 10.23.2009 | World
McCormack, a 26-year-old former reporter for the Hill, is completing a two-year stint as a Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala.
Pulitzer Center. | Pulitzer Center | Posted 10.08.2009 | Home
"Guatemala's children languish from malnutrition," Samuel Loewenberg project featured on Worldfocus...
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 10.07.2009 | Home
Last month, Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom declared a “state of calamity” to shunt mass hunger and the worst drought in 70 years. More ...
globalpost.com | Posted 11.15.2009 | World
COLOMBA, Guatemala �" For as long as they can remember, the farmers who grow coffee between the steep volcanic peaks here started the annual harvest...
BBC NEWS | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom has declared a "state of public calamity" to try to mobilise funding to tackle severe food shortages in the country....
Susan Benesch | Posted 09.28.2009 | World
A courageous publisher risks spending a year in jail for printing a photograph of a dog in one of the world's most crime-ridden nations.
Pulitzer Center. | Pulitzer Center | Posted 09.26.2009 | Home
In a country plagued by chronic malnutrition, government solutions keep coming up short. ...
Matthew-Lee Erlbach | Posted 09.24.2009 | World
"Many people think that migrants just easily appear at the U.S. border," said Camissa. "But the tough journey begins at the Mexico-Guatemala border."
Razoo | Razoo | Posted 09.07.2009 | Home
In 1999 when Mona Purdy was traveling in Central America, she saw children painting tar on the soles of their bare feet so they could run races durin...
Nelson P. Valdes | Posted 08.29.2009 | World
Congress and Courts belong to the rich and powerful who also control the military in cooperation with the Pentagon. Washington provided aid.
AP | LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
MIAMI — A hospital that sent a seriously brain injured illegal immigrant back to Guatemala – over the objections of his family and legal g...
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 07.23.2009 | Home
(View full post to see video) Watch the full show from Monday, June 22: Riot police in Tehran, British army medics, lasting effects of Agent Orange an...
Razoo | Razoo | Posted 07.20.2009 | Home
In 1999 when Mona Purdy was traveling in Central America, she saw children painting tar on the soles of their bare feet so they could run races durin...
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 07.16.2009 | Home
Members of the International Monetary Fund meet with officials in the Maldives. The battle over America's pledge of new funds to the Internat...
LA Times | Posted 07.05.2009 | World
Authorities have boosted security at a Guatemala City prison since the arrests of members of the Zetas, a violent drug gang from Mexico....
The Guardian | Posted 06.15.2009 | World
Police in Guatemala have arrested a Twitter user and confiscated his computer for "inciting financial panic" after he urged people to remove funds fro...
Posted 06.13.2009 | World
JUAN CARLOS LLORCA | Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY - A lawyer slain by gunmen over the weekend appears in a video tape that emerged Monday allegin...
Miam Herald | Posted 06.01.2009 | World
At a park near the historic center of Guatemala City, a bus driver was recently shot and killed, one of dozens this year. Denis Enamorado waited beyon...
Razoo | Razoo | Posted 05.22.2009 | Home
Many people who live near the Mayan rainforest in Guatemala subsist on one small meal a day. They are close to starvation—and yet one of the wo...
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.17.2009 | Home
Photo: Samuel Loewenberg Samuel Loewenberg of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is currently in Guatemala producing a couple Worldfocus...
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.17.2009 | Home
Photo: Samuel Loewenberg Samuel Loewenberg of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is currently in Guatemala producing a couple Worldfocus...
WorldFocus | Samuel Loewenberg | Posted 04.30.2009 | World
In a country as bloody as Guatemala, the last two weeks have stood out. In the last several years, bus drivers have became targets for street gangs ...
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 04.30.2009 | Home
Approximately 80 bus drivers have been murdered in Guatemala in the last year. Photo: Sam Loewenberg Samuel Loewenberg of the Pulitzer Cent...
globalpost.com | Ezra Fieser | Posted 11.23.2009 | World