Guatemalan appointed officials

(Permanent Musical Accompaniment To This Post). Being our semi-regular weekly survey of what's goin' down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of governmentin' gets done, and where the cards are no good that you're holding, unless they're from another world. Occasionally, as we ...

Federal officials lost track of nearly 1,500 migrant children last year after a government agency placed the minors in the homes of adult sponsors in ... Portman began investigating after a case in his home state of Ohio, where eight Guatemalan teens were placed with human traffickers and forced to work on ...

For now, the Russians will remain in prison, the same one where former President Otto Perez Molina and other ex-officials are being held on accusations of corruption. The high court's decision did not order them freed while prosecutors reconsider the case and decide whether to seek a retrial.

Guatemala had suffered under years of bloody and corrupt dictatorships, but the brief tenure of Rios Montt exceeded his predecessors in ferocity. ... The baleful network of interests that he, his colleagues, and their predecessors and successors in the Guatemalan military and government created still ...

The efforts of the Attorney General's Office to fight rampant impunity and protect human rights in Guatemala must continue and even increase, Amnesty International said today, ahead of the appointment of the new Attorney General and Head of the Public Prosecutor's Office. “President Jimmy Morales must ...

To date, Impact Ministries has assisted in the completion of seven schools in the mountain region near Tactic, Guatemala. School officials said that the annual trip is meant to help open the eyes of students to the issues and needs of the world outside of Canada. “The trip caused me to reflect on my own life ...

John Briceno, Opposition Leader: “Well of course we want to congratulate the Guatemalan people in holding it seems one of the most successful referendums in quite a long ... The government of Belize seems to have had no plan as to what will be the reason should Guatemala vote yes, there is no plan.

IT SOUNDS like an outrageous act of provocation. In a referendum on April 15th, Guatemalan voters chose to file a claim at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) demanding sovereignty over 53% of Belize, their eastern neighbour. The Belizean government, however, responded with congratulations, ...

Guatemala's central government fiscal deficit is low relative to peers. In 2017, it reached 1.3% of GDP, up marginally from the decade-low of 1.1% of GDP in 2016. The Guatemalan Congress failed to pass the 2018 budget, resulting in the 2017 budget being rolled over. Fitch expects the deficit to fall ...

The Guatemalan government has claimed that 98 percent of all registered Guatemalans have voted for taking a long standing border dispute between Guatemala and Belize to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). There are just two things wrong with this whole voting process. First, there were many ...

"In Guatemala, Mayan social movements warn that the consult regarding the land and sea dispute with Belize hides capitalist interests with the intention of legalizing the looting and sacking of the region's natural resources." The Guatemalan government has promoted and safeguarded mining, hydroelectric ...

And yet, two years later, the Guatemalan government has not carried out most of the collective reparations measures ordered by the court. In large part this is because the main cause of the violence – a dispute over land that historically belonged to the Maya Q'eqchi people – has still not been resolved, ...

By BBN Staff: The Government of Belize (GOB) has released a statement informing the nation that it rejects completely the comments made by Guatemalan Vice President Jafeth Cabrera who stated that Belize will be holding a referendum in May of 2018. Yesterday, Belize's Ambassador to Guatemala, ...

By Richard Harrison: Yesterday the people of Guatemala, after several months of enticement by their government to covet their neighbours territory….voted a resounding NO to the claim of their government over Belize. Only 26% of their voting population took the time to participate in their referendum on the ...

The Guatemalan Governments has intensified its campaign to take its territorial, maritime and insular claim on Belize to the International Court of Justice, ICJ. Six days from today, on Sunday, April 15, more than seven million eligible Guatemalan voters will decide whether they want the dispute to be ...

This is not the first time the government has shown unfriendly attitude toward the commission; President Morales tried to expel Velasquez in August, but was blocked by the country's top court. Guatemala has been plagued by mass protests and calls for the removal of the current president after his son and ...

But months before the joint military operation, the Guatemalan government already knew about de Leon's criminal activities. Guatemala's general attorney knew de Leon had direct contact with Emigdio Rodas Diaz, son of a front man for Jose Arturo Lagos Reyes “the Ghost,” head of the Hemster Locos ...