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.
When Rios Montt became president, human rights violations had already prompted the United States to cut off aid to the Guatemalan government.
To the agency, the Guatemalan Army was the defender of America's freedom.
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.
"We are studying the arrival of many Mexicans, specifically members of the Zeta group, who have wanted to come to take advantage of the Guatemalan territory, a situation that we -- as authorities -- will not permit, " Blanco said, referring to one group of narcotraffickers.
For a Harvard educated woman to marry a guerrilla and then to have some doubts that a guerrilla in Guatemala might get killed by the Guatemalan military, if that came to her as a shocking revelation, you know.. her parents perhaps should go back and ask for a refund from Harvard.
In fact, one of the translators at the court proceedings has said the mainly Guatemalan immigrants he encountered had no idea what a Social Security card was let alone that the numbers on it belonged to real people.
Last but not least the chaotic Guatemalan environment has already attracted Hugo Chavez.
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.
At a news conference last week, he said unidentified people had shot the demonstrators - most of them indigenous Guatemalan - from the back of a lorry with a civilian licence plate.
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.
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