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150 Feared dead in Guatemala as rains from Eta continue

November 7, 2020 by Kevin Bird

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Online News Editor November 6, 2020 Guatemala City, Nov 6 (efe-epa).- Flooding and mudslides caused by rains from Tropical Depression Eta may have claimed as many as 150 lives in northern Guatemala, the Central American country’s president said Friday. “The unofficial figures – because they are not confirmed – give…

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Guatemala on deportees with COVID-19: US not acting ‘like allies’

July 28, 2020 by Kevin Bird

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Guatemala's president questions alliance with the US as immigration authorities continue to deport those with COVID-19. 21 May 2020 Guatemala's president on Thursday questioned his country's relationship with the United States, revealing frustration over the US continuing to send deportees infected with COVID-19 to a country struggling to manage the…

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Guatemala’s health workers are endangered by COVID-19, but also by their government

July 28, 2020 by Kevin Bird

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By Adeline Neau, Madeleine Penman & Josefina Salomón 3 July 2020, 14:45 UTC Health professionals in Guatemala are facing a double threat: a potentially lethal virus, and a government that is turning their backs against them. Severe delays in salary payments, bin bags to replace disposable gowns and inadequate facilities are…

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Tourism in Guatemala: Reopening Must Wait

July 7, 2020 by Kevin Bird

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Friday, July 3, 2020 The revival of national tourism was planned for July 15, but due to the current conditions of the covid-19 outbreak, the new date to allow tourism activities at the local level is expected to be August 15. The spread of the virus forced the Guatemalan authorities…

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Tropical Storm Amanda weakens after killing 17 people in El Salvador and Guatemala, could reform next week in Gulf of Mexico

June 9, 2020 by Kevin Bird

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Published Jun 1st 2020 USA Today The remnants of Tropical Storm Amanda formed into a tropical depression on Monday after killing at least 17 people in El Salvador and Guatemala, where heavy rains produced flooding and landslides. The weather disturbance is expected to move through the Gulf of Mexico in the…

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Coffee: Regional Sales drop 17%

November 1, 2019November 1, 2019 by Kevin Bird

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Friday, October 25, 2019 During the first three months of the year, coffee exports from Central American countries totaled $747 million, 17% less than what was reported for the same period in 2018. Figures from the Trade Intelligence Unit at CentralAmericaData: Click to interact with graphicClick to interact with graphic…

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Doing Business in Central America: Have We Improved?

November 1, 2019 by Kevin Bird

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Friday, October 25, 2019 Guatemala was the only country in the region that improved its position in the global ranking monitoring businessmen's conditions for doing business, while the others went backwards. The World Bank released the results of the Doing Business 2020 report, which measures the regulations that favor or…

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Transgenic Crops Approved

October 26, 2019 by Kevin Bird

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Thursday, October 24, 2019 Since October 1, in Guatemala, the Technical Regulation of Biosafety of Living Modified Organisms has been in force, which will allow the importation, commercialization and sowing of modified seeds known as transgenic, for human and animal consumption. Until now, Guatemala could only import food that was…

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‘People are dying’: how the climate crisis has sparked an exodus to the US

August 22, 2019 by Kevin Bird

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Mon 29 Jul 2019 As part of the Running Dry series, the Guardian looks at how drought and famine are forcing Guatemalan families to choose between starvation and migration by Nina Lakhani in Camotán At sunrise, the misty fields around the village of Guior are already dotted with men, women…

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Caught between floods and drought: Farmers in Nicaragua living in uncertainty

August 7, 2019August 7, 2019 by Kevin Bird

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Date June 12th 2019 Author Lise Josefsen Hermann Across the Central American Dry Corridor, communities are facing increasingly extreme weather. In Nicaragua, the region's poorest country, subsistence farmers like Blanca Landero Betarco face a daily battle. The air is dry and the heat intense in the village of La Grecia…

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