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GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AFP) — A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck western Guatemala early Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey said. The epicenter of the quake, which had a depth of 84 kilometers (52 miles), was just under 100 kilometers southwest of the capital, Guatemala City. The Central American country is in a risk zone for earthquakes, located at a meeting point of three tectonic plates. © Agence France-Presse
by Henry MORALES ARANA Agence France-Presse COMUNIDAD CERRO AZUL, Guatemala (AFP) – Lazaro Yat looked on helplessly as his 17-year-old son left the family home in Guatemala and embarked on the perilous journey to the United States as an undocumented migrant. Two powerful hurricanes that struck the north of the Central American country in 2020 decimated cardamom crops, leaving thousands of indigenous people destitute. “Everyone suffered because their crops were left submerged in water,” Yat […]
GUATEMALA CITY, Guetamala (AFP) — Guatemala’s Fuego volcano spewed lava and ash Thursday in a series of explosions that have not yet forced any evacuations, authorities said. The eruption produced a long river of lava flowing down to the base of the volcano, some 35 kilometers (22 miles) southwest of the capital Guatemala City, said Emilio Barillas of the Insivumeh volcano institute. Fuego, 3.7 kilometers high (12,240 feet), is one of three active volcanoes in […]
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AFP) — Guatemala has declared a new state of emergency and will impose an overnight curfew from Sunday to contain a surge in Covid infections due to the Delta variant, President Alejandro Giammattei said. The 30-day state of emergency is being implemented due to a rebound in cases attributed to the “more aggressive” Delta variant, Giammattei said in a televised address on Friday. “The Delta variant is highly contagious. It is causing […]
by Edgar Calderon with Henry Morales Arana in Guatemala City VADO HONDO, Guatemala (AFP) — Guatemalan security forces on Monday broke up a caravan of about 4,000 Honduran migrants trying to reach the United States on a journey of thousands of kilometers through Central America on foot, AFP reporters witnessed. Police advanced on the group in a coordinated move, striking batons against their shields to make an intimidating noise, prompting the migrants to scatter. The […]
VANO HONDO, Guatemala (AFP) — Guatemalan police fired tear gas Sunday to disperse thousands of Honduran migrants trying to reach the United States on foot, with soldiers beating back a group trying to push through barricades, AFP journalists witnessed. Security forces surrounded the migrant caravan on a road in the southeastern Guatemalan town of Vado Hondo, near the border with Honduras. Amid the deafening explosions of gas and smoke cannisters, many migrants retreated, with some […]
by Noe LEIVA TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AFP) — The death toll from hurricane Eta rose to at least 12 Thursday as it spun itself out into a tropical depression in Central America, while rising floodwaters and a wake of destruction in Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala left thousands without shelter and at risk of landslides. Four people died in landslides in Guatemala, including two children whose fragile family dwelling was swept away. Landslides also claimed the lives […]
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AFP) — Nana was downgraded to a tropical storm on Thursday as it hit Guatemala, several hours after making landfall in Belize as a hurricane. “Nana has weakened to a tropical depression, moving westwards,” said David de Leon, the spokesman for Guatemala’s Coordinator for Disaster Reduction (CONRED.) De Leon said winds had reduced to a maximum of 55 kilometers per hour. “Continued weakening is expected, and Nana is expected to degenerate to […]
COBAN, Guatemala (AFP) — An indigenous community in Guatemala that suffered an arson attack on their village by an armed group has called for further help despite authorities sending police to protect them. Some 40 families were forcibly evicted from their homes, which were then set alight by armed raiders in the early hours of Sunday. “We ask for help for these families and also for ourselves (because) unfortunately they robbed us and left us […]
EAGLE NEWS —The Republic of Guatemala and its President, Alejandro Giammattei received on June 22, 72,000 RT PCR tests for the detection and diagnosis of the virus causing their respiratory syndrome of COVID-19. This generous donation will serve to strengthen the institutional response of the government of Guatemala to this pandemic. Through this goodwill gesture, President Alejandro Giammattei said that “They’re friends we have to honor such as the European Union.” These 72,000 tests may […]
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AFP) — Emergency workers were searching for seven people still missing Monday as El Salvador and its Central American neighbors picked through the destruction after the first named Pacific storm of the year left at least 18 people dead. Rescue teams were trying to locate the missing in floodwaters caused by torrential rain and high winds after Storm Amanda swept in from the Pacific on Sunday, El Salvador’s Interior Minister Mario […]
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AFP) — Tropical Storm Amanda, the first named storm of the season in the Pacific, killed 10 people as it lashed El Salvador and Guatemala on Sunday amid flooding and power outages. El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele declared a state of emergency for 15 days to cope with the effects of the storm, which lost strength later in the day as it moved into Guatemala. The fatalities were all recorded in El […]
