News Guatemala Baja Verapaz: Best Things To Do in Salama, Guatemala
Explore our guide that tells you about the best tourist places to visit and things to do in Salama. This guide will give you an idea about the popular attractions, upcoming tourist spots, and off-beat ...
News Guatemala Baja Verapaz: MPP Migrant Drowns Attempting to Re-Enter U.S. in El Paso
Her body was discovered Monday, July 29; her court hearing was scheduled for August 18. Mendoza is from an indigenous region from Guatemala known as Baja Verapaz. Her death follows seven others ...
News Guatemala Baja Verapaz: Alta & Baja Verapaz
Explore Alta & Baja Verapaz holidays and discover the best time and places to visit. | This region is an interesting mix of local villages, often with little Spanish spoken in favor of the indigenous dialects, larger cities and some truly top-notch tourist attractions. It can be beastly hot at times, particularly just before the rainy season from February to May. Oddly, this is when some of the sights are best visited, as they are most known for swimming, spelunking, or getting wet and muddy.Cobán is the largest urban development, with plenty of hotels, hostels, restaurants, hospitals, and even some nightlife. Outside of this city, though, you will discover quiet countryside life, kind people, and a sense of place that comes only from isolation. Many of the areas here had little or no paved roads until a few decades ago.
News Guatemala Baja Verapaz: Guatemala arrests fugitive ex-military chief accused of genocide
Police arrested Mendoza outside an elementary school serving as a polling station in his hometown in the department of Baja Verapaz, 115km north of Guatemala City. "He was apprehended for the crimes ...
News Guatemala Baja Verapaz: Guatemala war crime survivors challenge amnesty bill
Guatemala City - Indigenous survivors of crimes against ... including in Maya Achi territory around Rabinal, in the Baja Verapaz department. "I experienced it first-hand," said Ixpata. "I feel sad ...
News Guatemala Baja Verapaz: Placing Blame For Genocide / Guatemalan massacre survivors seek damages from dam financiers
Ten army soldiers and 25 civilian militia members killed 177 women and children, including Osorio's wife and newborn child, who was slashed in half with a machete. "The egregious social injustices that (Rio Negro residents and other displaced communities) have suffered formed an important part of our deliberations around the impact of large dams," said Deborah Moore, a member of the dam commission panel. Several U.S. and European human rights organizations have aided the committee, arguing that international human rights treaties support reparation claims of compensation for lost land, lives and culture. In the past, compensation has been awarded for human rights abuses to victims of the Holocaust, the dictatorship of Chile's Gen. Augusto Pinochet and Argentina's military 1976-'83 junta, the apartheid government of South Africa and California internment camps during World War II. The Rio Negro survivors say they will be the first victims moved by a large dam project to file for reparations under international human rights treaties. "With people on site in Guatemala, it would be hard not to know," said Harold Naiser, a member of the U.N. truth commission that investigated human rights abuses committed during the conflict. [...] these same critics say the bank shares responsibility since its resettlement policy for projects it funds promises the displaced that they will enjoy at minimum their former living standards. [...] villagers say the National Electrification Institute provided the minimum compensation for lost crops and livestock the soldiers and militiamen had carried off. [...] some of the institute-built houses are falling apart and the health clinic is currently closed because of a lack of funds to pay a doctor or buy medicine. Naiser, however, says the villagers have little chance of winning a legal judgment against the government in today's court system. "[...] the power of the military has effectively ended, the idea of justice is a vain hope," he said.
News Guatemala Baja Verapaz: Las Verapaces
Northeast of Guatemala City, the scrubby landscape gives way to forested mountains drained by wild rivers. You may feel you’ve stepped into northern Europe. This central section of the country is ...
News Guatemala Baja Verapaz: Fersa Energía, S.A
Fersa Energía, S.A. (Fersa) is a company located in the City of Guatemala aimed at the development ... especially in the departments of Alta Verapaz, Peten, Quiché, Baja Verapaz and Izabal; a plan ...
News Guatemala Baja Verapaz: REPORT FROM AN EXPEDITION TO MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA TO OBTAIN SEEDS OF TROPICAL PINES
Cones were collected in Baja Verapaz and Zacapa. In Sierra de las Minas in Zacapa ... in co-operation with and for the FAO/FYDEP (Fomento y Desarrollo del Petén). Guatemala will probably be the best ...
