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Hispanic y Latino News :: November 10th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

A Guatemalan designated as one of the world’s biggest drug kingpins has been convicted of cocaine importation and distribution charges by New York jury

Famous Guatemalan chicken restaurant opens first Rhode Island location in EP

Members of a Guatemalan family living in Marin County are now separated by thousands of miles after immigration officials deported the parents of three children overnight. – California

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: November 4th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Guatemalan Writer Jaime Barrios Peña Dies

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 27th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

A Guatemalan grandmother’s secret is revealed – A columnist’s recent writings on illiteracy lead to a surprising discovery much closer to home.

Guatemalans, Hondurans More Likely to Have Limited-English Proficiency

Country of Origin Profiles: Browse detailed demographic and economic profiles of Hispanics in the United States by their countries of origin.

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 17th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Guatemalan army stole children for adoption, report says

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 10th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Six boys were charged with severely beating a Guatemalan immigrant with bricks, bottles and rocks as he slept near railroad tracks, an attack that civil rights groups decried Tuesday as “hateful.”

Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom declared “a state of public calamity” late Tuesday to help mobilize funds and resources to confront a food shortage that will affect thousands of families.

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 3rd, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Resurrecting the “Guatemalan Dream”

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 10th, 2009

Top 3 Guatemalan police officials fired over drugs

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: June 29th, 2009

Guatemalan journalists in jeopardy, lack support from authorities and media owners

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: June 24th, 2009

Guatemalan church helps TrueNorth build Hispanic ministry – Augusta, Georgia

The U.S. government knew that top Guatemalan officials it supported with arms and cash were behind the disappearance of thousands of people during a 36-year civil war, declassified documents obtained by a U.S. research institute show.

News Summaries for January 28th, 2009

Gregory Nava’s film ‘El Norte’ marks 25th anniversary – The movie, about two young Guatemalan immigrants’ struggle to reach the U.S., gets a special-edition DVD release from Criterion.

News Summaries for Wednesday – December 10th, 2008 – includes Business & Entertainment

Advocates for immigrants in Miami demanded an investigation Tuesday into a series of federal raids last month that they said left at least six Guatemalan men bloodied and bruised in a roundup of nearly 100 people.

News Summaries for Tuesday – December 9th, 2008 – includes Business & Entertainment

A coalition of immigrant advocates are demanding that the U.S. attorney’s office in Miami investigate the arrest of dozens of Mexicans and Guatemalans who were taken into custody last month during a raid targeting a separate group of alleged sex-trade traffickers in Homestead. – Florida

News Summary for Monday – December 8th, 2008

Guatemalans on Sunday celebrated a beloved tradition: “Burning of the Devil.” Across the country, people lit bonfires and burned images of Satan as a way to symbolically cleanse their houses. For the first time, the minister of the environment had asked Guatemalans not to burn the devil.

Focus on Cesar, a Guatemalan immigrant, played by Luis Chavez in Starz’ show Crash

News Summary for Friday – December 5th, 2008

Twenty-one Guatemalan immigrants told authorities they were abducted from a Texas smuggler’s safehouse and threatened, beaten and in some cases raped.

New Summary for Wednesday – December 3rd, 2008

Mexican and Guatemalan drug traffickers arguing about a horse race in a rural border town began a series of gunbattles in which 17 people died, police said Monday.

Latin American and U.S. Latina Women Unite to Demand Access to the Female Condom

DIRECTV Mas Launches Telecentro, a New and Exclusive Spanish-Language Channel from Central America

Blogante News Summary for Tuesday – September 16th, 2008

Guatemalan Artist Exhibition a Gateway to Study Abroad – The University of Arizona Center for Latin American Studies hosts Mayan artist Carlos Chavez.

¡Viva Las Vegas … y la Independencia! – Luis Miguel, Alejandro Fernandez, Enrique Iglesias and Marco Antonio Solis Among the Latin Performers Celebrating Mexican Independence Day in the Country’s Top Travel Destination

Blogante News Summary for Tuesday – September 9th, 2008

Blogante Essential News for Tuesday – September 9th, 2008

Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom said Friday that government prosecutors are trying to determine who put microphones and video cameras in the presidential palace.

News Summary for Friday – September 5th, 2008

Essentials for Friday – September 5th, 2008

In what’s being hailed as an important victory for South Florida immigrants, Lake Worth has reached a settlement with seven Guatemalan families left homeless from a nighttime raid by city officials in 2006.

Blogante News Summary for Wednesday – August 6th, 2008

Blogante Essentials for Wednesday – August 6th, 2008

Ana Escobar plays with her daughter Esther Zulemita Rivas in Guatemala City, Tuesday, July 29, 2008. Escobar found her daughter, who was stolen from her in March 26, 2007, after 14 months of searching in hospitals, orphanages and police stations. Ester Zulamita is the first stolen Guatemalan baby found through a challenge of the mother-and-child DNA test results that are supposed to guarantee the legitimacy of each adoption.

Yahoo! Telemundo Reveals the Summer BUZZ-worthy Searches for July

Raid on meat plant haunts town, sparks debate – Postville

Blogante News Summary – Wednesday – July 16th, 2008

Gunmen kill Guatemalan prosecutor

Blogante News for Wednesday – June 18th, 2008

Abandoned two-year-old is the poster child for immigration debate (Latina Lista)

Guatemalan moms face agonizing decision – new Guatemalan government effort to ensure that mothers really wanted to give their babies up

Not guilty verdict for ex-policeman accused of killing homeless NY Guatemalan immigrant

Las Vegas, ¡Aqui y Ahora! – Latin Performers Take Center Stage this Summer in the Country’s Top Tourist Destination

Postville Latino community leaders ask, “What good comes from tearing so many families apart?” (Latina Lista)

Blogante News for Wednesday – May 14th, 2008

CPJ condemns murder of Guatemalan journalist – Jorge Mérida Pérez

Demand for Guatemalan Children Is So High, Baby Snatching Is Rampant

Pollo Campero opens franchise in US Wal-Mart store

The Mayan Way – in Oakland

Chattanooga: Jobs attracting Hispanics to the South

Blueberries, Bullets and Blood-Soaked Bananas: The Violence of Free Trade in Guatemala

Heads They Win, Tails You Lose: Canadian Nickel Companies in Guatemala

‘Apoyando a Quienes Apoyan’ Begins Its Seventh Annual Award Benefiting Guatemala

An Illegal Immigrant’s Legal Paradox – Paying Child Support Means Breaking the Law

Illegal Immigrants Often Die Anonymously

TV Azteca Anounces Alliance with Latitud TV to Transmit its Successful Programming in Guatemala

LOS TIGRES DEL NORTE’s RAICES (‘Roots’) Will Debut At #1 On The “Top Latin Albums” Chart

Guatemala’s Fundacion Ayudame a Vivir Fundraising Campaign Raises More Than $2.6 Million

Relentless production pits Latino manager against his crew

Dispute in Guatemala May Delay Adoptions

Annual Maya Fiesta in Jupiter celebrates Guatemalan heritage – Florida

Faced with death in desert, father, son split up – The busiest corridor in recent years for illegal immigration along the Mexican border is also a deadly one.

Blogante News for Wednesday – January 23rd, 2008

Texas A&M’s Borlaug Institute Helping Thousands of Guatemalan Farmers

Blogante News for Thursday – January 17th, 2008

Spanish judge shelves Guatemalan genocide probe

CIMS » Hispanic Presence on TV Grows, But Still Not Good Enough

Crackdown on Long Island Landlords Is Criticized as Harassment of Immigrants – (since when do building inspectors show up at 6am?)

Miss Latin America Organization widens search nationwide for USA delegate to its world competition

The adoption quandary – Guatemala overhauls a system that needed reform, but will it help children?

Blogante News for Thursday – January 3rd, 2008

Change In Guatemalan Law May Threaten 3,000 U.S. Adoptions

Blogante News for Wednesday – January 2nd, 2007

Dreams of returning home sustain Guatemalan immigrants – Hayward, California

Blogante News for Thursday – December 13th, 2007

Guatemalans, Mexicans blending as families

Blogante News for Wednesday – December 12th, 2007

Guatemalan student receives the University of Minnesota Tapestry Award for promoting diversity on campus – Silvia Álvarez

New Guatemala Adoption Law Approved

Illegal migrant gardeners dig big hole for Mitt Romney

Immigrant Workers Caught in Net Cast for Gangs – Greenport, New York

Undocumented immigrants afraid of using U.S. banks

For immigrants, North Carolina is worth the risk

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