The Guatemalan government is also moving in the right direction to address the problem of violence against women.
And when the Guatemalan flag went by, all the kids of Guatemalan heritage shouted out.
Marvin Toto says he hopes the Guatemalan worker's lawsuit can make things better for his family.
The communities on the Guatemalan side of the border face a more challenging environment.
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El Salvador and Honduras where gang activity is strong will soon follow the Guatemalan model.
Once an investigation is complete, it will be up to the Guatemalan courts to prosecute suspects.
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The Guatemalan government approximates that two-fifths of the homicides in its country can be attributed to the drug trade.
He began his career in the Guatemalan army in 1946 as a cadet.
Certainly, the would-be migrants on the Guatemalan side of the frontier do not seem to be deterred by any bureaucratic obstacles.
After the killings, the Guatemalan authorities promised to impose stricter controls in jails, but also acknowledged that the prison system was close to collapse.
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The wild and rugged park, 120km west of San Salvador near the Guatemalan border, is named after a mountain pass that has claimed the life of many a coffee-farmer and mule.
"But what has not been clarified is who does what, what the scale of this operation is, what it is going to look like, what are the budget implications, " the Guatemalan ambassador to the UN, Gert Rosenthal, said in a statement on Tuesday.
Although vast swathes were deleted, enough remained to reveal startling information about the senior Guatemalan officer involved in Bamaca's fate.
The mayor of the eastern Guatemalan town of Jutiapa has been shot dead as he waited to have his hair cut at a barber's.
Benedict's final official acts as pope will include audiences with the Romanian and Guatemalan presidents this week and the Italian president on Feb. 23.
The 200 remaining Guatemalan bearded lizards, however, face the possibility of stronger legal protection.
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The rose was perhaps his estranged Guatemalan wife and the little lost prince was no doubt in large part the author.
The case is thought to be only the second time Guatemalan military leaders have been put on trial for wartime crimes.
When we negotiated the trade agreement called the CAFTA DR, which opened up new markets for Guatemalan farmers, the entrepreneurial spirit came forth.
The collection was assembled by owner Billy Bickford, a third-generation Guatemalan otherwise occupied with running the family businesses in construction, real estate, and finance.
But if the United States deserves criticism for openly supporting Rios Montt's rule, it also should be credited for supporting Guatemalan efforts to put the former dictator on trial, said Anita Isaacs, a professor of political science at Haverford College whose research focuses on Guatemalan politics.
Guatemalan authorities say the adoption agency falsified documents to make the girl eligible for adoption, something that the adoptive parents in Missouri apparently didn't know.
Guatemalan police are investigating the murder of two girls aged six and 12 whose bodies were found dumped on a street in the capital, Guatemala City.
It is almost typical features for Guatemalan elections, to have the second candidate of the previous elections have a good shot in the next ones.
"The hypothesis we have is clear, and it is that several cartels here that are operating in Guatemalan territory already have certain alliances with Mexican cartels, specifically the alliances that have been made for the passage of drugs, " said Marlene Blanco Lapola, chief of the National Civil Police.
Their ranks swelled with infusions from a notorious Guatemalan counter-insurgency unit, the Kaibiles.
But a Guatemalan version of Plan Colombia or the Plan Merida currently being discussed with the Mexican government is unlikely to materialise.
BBC: Guatemala's new President, Alvaro Colom, 5 November 2007
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