Kelly McCormack's Inspirational Example
McCormack, a 26-year-old former reporter for the Hill, is completing a two-year stint as a Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala.
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"Guatemala's children languish from malnutrition," Samuel Loewenberg project featured on Worldfocus
Pulitzer Center. | Pulitzer Center | Posted 10.08.2009 | Home
"Guatemala's children languish from malnutrition," Samuel Loewenberg project featured on Worldfocus...
Tune in: Radio show on "Guatemala: Behind the famine"
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 ...
Climate Change May Push Up Coffee Prices
globalpost.com | Posted 11.15.2009 | World
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COLOMBA, Guatemala �" For as long as they can remember, the farmers who grow coffee between the steep volcanic peaks here started the annual harvest...
Guatemala Declares Hunger Crisis
BBC NEWS | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
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Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom has declared a "state of public calamity" to try to mobilise funding to tackle severe food shortages in the country....
Daring Guatemalan Publisher Convicted on Trumped-Up Charge
Susan Benesch | Posted 09.28.2009 | World
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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.
"Hungry in Guatemala," by Samuel Loewenberg, The Atlantic
Pulitzer Center. | Pulitzer Center | Posted 09.26.2009 | Home
In a country plagued by chronic malnutrition, government solutions keep coming up short. ...
The Harrowing Journey North with Rebecca Cammisa's Which Way Home
Matthew-Lee Erlbach | Posted 09.24.2009 | World
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"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."
Share Your Soles Distributes Shoes to People in Need
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...
Honduras: Term Limits When Governments Benefit People
Nelson P. Valdes | Posted 08.29.2009 | World
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Congress and Courts belong to the rich and powerful who also control the military in cooperation with the Pentagon. Washington provided aid.
Jury Sides With Hospital That Deported Brain Injured Immigrant
AP | LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
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MIAMI — A hospital that sent a seriously brain injured illegal immigrant back to Guatemala – over the objections of his family and legal g...
Full Show: June 22, 2009
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...
Share Our Soles Distributes Shoes to People in Need
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...
Bailing out the bailer-outer
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...
Mexico Drug Violence Spills Into Guatemala
LA Times | Posted 07.05.2009 | World
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Authorities have boosted security at a Guatemala City prison since the arrests of members of the Zetas, a violent drug gang from Mexico....
Guatemalan Man Arrested After Sending Twitter Message
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...
Dead Guatemalan Lawyer Left Video Blaming President For His Death (VIDEO)
Posted 06.13.2009 | World
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JUAN CARLOS LLORCA | Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY - A lawyer slain by gunmen over the weekend appears in a video tape that emerged Monday allegin...
Guatemalan Undertakers Thrive From High Crime, Murders
Miam Herald | Posted 06.01.2009 | World
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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...
Maya Nut Could Reduce Poverty in Mayan Rainforest
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...
Chronic malnutrition fatigues Guatemala?s children
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...
Chronic malnourishment fatigues Guatamala?s children
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...
Guatemala Bus Drivers Targeted By Gangs
WorldFocus | Samuel Loewenberg | Posted 04.30.2009 | World
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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 ...
Street gangs target and kill bus drivers in Guatemala
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...
Guatemala Opens Vast Archive On Human Rights Abuses
Miami Herald | JILL REPLOGLE | Posted 04.30.2009 | World
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Marylena Bustamante traveled 24 hours on a bus from Mexico City for a new chance at finding information about her brother, who disappeared 27 years ag...
Guatemala Civil War Orphans Illegally Sold: Government
The Latin Americanist | Posted 04.24.2009 | World
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Another dimension has been added to the troublesome aspect of adoptions in Guatemala when the government revealed yesterday that civil war orphans had...
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