Mexico Guatemala collaborate to strengthen border security

People's Daily - Saturday 25th May, 2013

Mexican President Felipe Calderon (L) and his Guatemalan counterpart Alvaro Colom arrive at a joint press conference at the official residence Los Pinos, in Mexico City, capital of Mexico, on July 27, 2011. (Xinhua/David de la ...

El Salvador presses Pope Francis to beatify Archbishop Romero

General Sources - Saturday 25th May, 2013

VATICAN CITY -- El Salvador's president gave Pope Francis a relic of assassinated Archbishop Oscar Romero on Thursday amid mounting indications that the Vatican might soon move to beatify him. President Mauricio Funes flew from El Salvador to Rome for a 12-minute meeting with Francis to encourage the beatification, the first step to possible sainthood. A Vatican communiqu said the talks ...

Ex-Guatemala president extradited to US

The Kansas City Star - Saturday 25th May, 2013

GUATEMALA CITY - Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo was extradited on Friday to the United States to face charges of laundering $70 million in Guatemalan funds through U.S. bank ...

Ex-President Portillo of Guatemala Is Extradited to U.S.

New York Times - Saturday 25th May, 2013

Mr. Portillo, who was president from 2000 to 2004, faces charges in federal court in New York of conspiring to launder some $70 million of his country's funds through American ...

Honduras’ biggest gangs plan to sign a truce to cut violence

Globe and Mail - Friday 24th May, 2013

A gang member looks into a broken piece of mirror while getting a haircut by a fellow inmate at a prison in Quezaltepeque, on the outskirts of San Salvador, El Salvador, June 2, 2012. Two of Honduras' biggest gangs, 18th Street and Mara Salavatrucha, have announced that they will sign a truce - as they did in El Salvador in 2012. (STRINGER/EL ...

Members of the 107th working In the Shadows

General Sources - Friday 24th May, 2013

Spc. Elliot Haag, metal worker, 107th Engineer Company, Sparta, Wis., cuts down metal tent poles during Beyond the Horizon-El Salvador ...

Reversal of Rios Montt verdict in Guatemala sparks criticism of genocide charge

McClatchy - Friday 24th May, 2013

GUATEMALA CITY - The overturning this week of former military dictator Gen. Efrain Rios Montt’s conviction on charges stemming from Guatemala’s brutal civil war has created a surprising consensus among critics on both the left and the right: Prosecutors badly overreached when they tried to pin accusations of genocide on the 86-year-old former president. Despite sharp divisions ...

OAS Permanent Council and CIDI Submit Proposals to the General Assembly in Antigua Guatemala

OAS - Friday 24th May, 2013

May 24, 2013 The Permanent Council and the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) of the Organization of American States (OAS) approved the submission of several draft resolutions to the next General Assembly, which will take place from June 4 to 6 in Antigua, Guatemala. In a joint session, the Permanent Council and CIDI approved the draft resolution on the ...

Ex-Guatemalan President Extradited To U.S.

NPR - Friday 24th May, 2013

Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo speaks with journalists in Guatemala City before boarding a plane for the U.S. on ...

Guatemala extradites ex-President Portillo to the U.S. on money laundering charges

Nica Times - Friday 24th May, 2013

Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo (2000-2004) on Friday was extradited to the United States to face money laundering charges, the local daily Siglo 21 reported.Portillo looked visibly sick and upset, when he was taken from a military hospital to a Guatemalan Air Force base, following an order by the Interior Ministry."So long Guatemala; I want to directly blame the government ...

Honduras - Journalists targeted in gunfire in northern Honduras

IFEX - Friday 24th May, 2013

Journalist Ramn Maldonado and camaraman Daniel Snchez from Canal Litoral Atlntico, in the city of La Ceiba, Atlntida department, escaped unharmed from an firearms attack by an unidentified suspect riding a motorcycle.On Monday 20 May 2013 in Colonia Villa Antonella, minutes after leaving the Canal Litoral Atlntico building around 9 a.m., a motorcyclist drove in front of Maldonado and shot ...

Ex-Guatemala President Extradited to US

International Herald Tribune - Friday 24th May, 2013

GUATEMALA CITY -- The lawyer for ex-Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo says he is being extradited to the United States to face money-laundering and embezzlement ...

El Salvadors leader gives pope bloodstained relic of Oscar Romero

General Sources - Friday 24th May, 2013

Pope Francis and President Mauricio Funes Cartagena of El Salvador look at a reliquary containing a blood-stained piece of the vestment of slain Archbishop Oscar Romero during a private audience in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican May 23. (CNS photo/Alessandro Bianchi, ...

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General Sources - Friday 24th May, 2013

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El Salvador presses pope on archbishop beatification

General Sources - Friday 24th May, 2013

Pope Francis and El Salvador President Mauricio Funes stand in front of a reliquary containing a fragment of the vestment that archbishop Oscar Romero was wearing when he was assassinated, on Thursday at the ...