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• Guatemala rescues kids put up for 'illegal adoption'

  Published: August 13, 2007, 4:00 am

  Tags: Community Society, Family Children, Adoption, World Politics, Law Crime Justice, Crime, Guatemala, United States

  Guatemalan authorities say they have rescued 46 children and babies who they think might have been taken from their parents for illegal adoption by foreigners.

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• Adoption Fraud: Child Trafficking in Haiti, Guatemala

  Published: August 13, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Adoption Fraud, International Adoption, News Issues Commentary, Adoption, Adoption Blogs, Guatemala Adoption, Haiti Adoption, Laura Christianson

  In Antigua, Guatemala, 46 children, ranging from newborns up to 3 years old, were discovered this week in an illegal foster home. None of the children had the proper adoption paperwork. The government has not yet decided where the children will be transferred. In Guatemala, child trafficking is often instigated by private

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• Adoption Fraud: Child Trafficking in Haiti, Guatemala

  Published: August 13, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Adoption Fraud, International Adoption, News Issues Commentary, Adoption, Adoption Blogs, Guatemala Adoption, Haiti Adoption, Laura Christianson

  or illegal. Source: Guatemala Adoption Information and NewsIn Guatemala, child trafficking is often instigated by private lawyers who forge adoption papers or pay mothers to sell their children. Apparently, some lawyers charge adoptive parents up to $40,000. According to a Reuters article, "The United States recently

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• Colombian Sub Hauling 5 Tons of Cocaine Seized off Guatemala

  Published: August 23, 2007, 1:24 pm

  Tags: Guatemala, Colombia

  cocaine was seized off the Guatemalan coast, U.S. officials said. Four suspected smugglers were operating the self-propelled, semi-submersible vessel when it was located and seized on Sunday evening by officials from the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard, the Border Patrol said in a news release Wednesday. When

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• The Guatemalan elections this year

  Published: September 10, 2007, 4:10 am

  Tags: Latin America Caribbean, Politics News, World, Central America, Centroamerica, Elecciones, Elections, Guatemala, Latinoamerica, Politics

  reading on Elections in Guatemala and on today's election. Here's a blog that has more background: Elecciones Guatemala. Gringologue does a bit of explaining in English about problems in a multilingual country with around a 60% literacy rate. (Maybe he can explain this country too since with a much higher literacy rate we still managed to

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• Shooting for Color

  Published: September 20, 2007, 3:41 pm

  Tags: Antigua, Antigua Guatemala, Exposure Compensation, Shooting Color, Color Photography, Lower Exposure Compensation, Photoshop Levels

  Geeze, take a look at that color. Here's how I got those vivid robin's egg blue. 1. When I was in Antigua, Guatemala, I looked for buildings that were painted bright colors, that were in direct... for more see...

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• State Deparment posts new warning on Guatemala adoptions

  Published: September 26, 2007, 3:43 am

  Tags: Guatemala

  adoption page on Guatemala, and it's not pretty. Read the whole thing, please, if you have any connection with adoptions from Guatemala, but I'll give a quick overview here. Please keep in mind that I am no expert on Guatemalan adoptions ... or much of anything, for that matter ... so am summing up to the best of my understanding a

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• espa ol?

  Published: September 29, 2007, 11:18 am

  Tags: Blog, Cultural, Cultural Differences, Education, Guatemala, Help Me, Interpreter, Life, Living, People, Self Improvement, Spanish, Spanish To English, Translation, Understanding, Curiousity, Espanol

  Spanish is spoken in Guatemala? Is the dialect much different than say, other Spanish dialects? I had gotten a Spanish interpreter last night at work; the gentleman had a “carnasale” dialect (at least that’s what

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• El Cambio Climatico y los lideres dividen al Mundo

  Published: September 29, 2007, 6:59 pm

  Tags: Onu, Michelle Bachelet, Bush, Chile, Scar Berger, Lula, Brasil, Cambio Climatico, Guatemala, Ban Ki Moon

  scar BergerPresidente de Guatemala "No se superar el impacto con la actual forma de producci n y consumo energ tico. Se requiere una nueva matriz, en la que los biocombustibles jueguen un papel vital". Luiz In cio da SilvaPresidente de BrasilVia: Prensa.comcambio climatico,Ban Ki moon,Bush,Michelle Bachelet,chile,ONU, scar

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• U.S. is expanding it's backyard

  Published: October 8, 2007, 8:10 pm

  Tags: Central, Administration, Agreement, American, Approval, Backs, Benefits, Bush, Cafta, Cafta Dr, Congress, Costa, Costa Rica, Debate, Democracy, Dominican Republic, Echo, El Salvador, Eyes, Greater, Guatemala, Honduras, Includes, Integration, Joining, Marg, Politics

  The CAFTA doesn't includes agricultural products, that meas U.S can sale all manufatured product, financial and services what they have to Latin America without buy nothing from there. read more

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• mexico vs guatemala

  Published: October 17, 2007, 11:54 pm

  Tags: Mexico, Guatemala, Mexico Vs Guatemala

  vs guatemala1USATODAY.com... Guatemala Wednesday, September 7 -Costa Rica vs. Trinidad & Tobago Mexico vs. ... States Mexico vs. Guatemala Panama vs. Trinidad & Tobago Wednesday, October 12 ...http://www.usatoday.com/sports/soccer/world/concacaf-wc.htm2ESPNdeportes.com - F tbol Mundial - M xico vs. GuatemalaM xico. 21:00.

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• Colom Wins Presidency In Guatemalan Runoff

  Published: November 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Colom, Wins, Presidency, Guatemalan, Runoff, Guatemala City, Hotel Grand Tikal Futura, Alejandro Urizar, Oscar Berger, Patriotic Party, Guatemala

  GUATEMALA CITY, Nov. 4 -- lvaro Colom, who struggled with internal defections and disappointing poll numbers in the final stages of Guatemala's presidential campaign, won a startling victory Sunday.

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• Guatemala elect new president

  Published: November 5, 2007, 8:26 am

  Tags: World Politics, Guatemala

  Social Democrat Alvaro Colom was elected Guatemala's new president, according to official poll results released here by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.

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• Voting & Drinking: No Booze Before Ballots! [Polls]

  Published: November 8, 2007, 4:30 pm

  Tags: 2004 Elections, Alcohol, Bars, Drinking And Voting, Guatemala, Politics, Polls, Wonkette

  Guatemala (and many other countries) bar sales of alcohol around election time to reduce poll-related violence and in the hopes that people will make better choices when they're not wasted. Makes... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl

  Published: November 10, 2007, 8:32 am

  Tags: Ferruginous Pygmy Owl, Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival, King Ranch, Guatemala

  in February when I was in

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