The Guatemalan government is also moving in the right direction to address the problem of violence against women.
The Mexican players were livid when no penalty was called, surrounding Guatemalan referee Walter Lopez.
And when the Guatemalan flag went by, all the kids of Guatemalan heritage shouted out.
This past fall Guatemalan police recovered a 600-pound Mayan altar from a gang of looters.
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.
The 200 remaining Guatemalan bearded lizards, however, face the possibility of stronger legal protection.
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Once an investigation is complete, it will be up to the Guatemalan courts to prosecute suspects.
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Guatemalan authorities took McAfee into custody Wednesday on accusations of entering the country illegally.
His lawyer, Telesforo Guerra, filed a formal request for asylum with Guatemalan officials Wednesday.
Guatemalan stability seems to be seriously threatened by organized crime and inefficient, corrupt and underpaid police forces.
The Guatemalan government approximates that two-fifths of the homicides in its country can be attributed to the drug trade.
Federal authorities were searching for illegal workers and detained more than 300 people, many of whom were Guatemalan.
But Guatemalan authorities found there was no basis for his asylum request, presidential spokesman Francisco Cuevas said Thursday.
He began his career in the Guatemalan army in 1946 as a cadet.
Their ranks swelled with infusions from a notorious Guatemalan counter-insurgency unit, the Kaibiles.
Last but not least the chaotic Guatemalan environment has already attracted Hugo Chavez.
Guatemalan authorities took him into custody on accusations of entering the country illegally, and his asylum bid was rejected.
Although vast swathes were deleted, enough remained to reveal startling information about the senior Guatemalan officer involved in Bamaca's fate.
She gained attention when she won a case against five right wing politicians1 enacting a Guatemalan law against racial discrimination.
Guatemalan prisons are overcrowded and in many, prisoners have taken control of many of the day-to-day running of the jails.
Marco Roldan, for example, has been in America for 22 years but still has a Guatemalan accent and odd syntax.
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According to authorities, pressure that Mexico has exerted on these groups could have led them to use nearby Guatemalan territory instead.
The case is thought to be only the second time Guatemalan military leaders have been put on trial for wartime crimes.
Certainly, the would-be migrants on the Guatemalan side of the frontier do not seem to be deterred by any bureaucratic obstacles.
The rose was perhaps his estranged Guatemalan wife and the little lost prince was no doubt in large part the author.
When Rios Montt became president, human rights violations had already prompted the United States to cut off aid to the Guatemalan government.
The hospital has interpreters around the clock, Ms. Ward said, but demand has eased as more Mexican and Guatemalan immigrants learn English.
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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