Guatemala City, Oct 6 (EFE).- Students from two private universities and doctors from a public hospital joined Friday the demonstrations in Guatemala against the attorney general and head of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, Consuelo Porras Argueta. Calls for Porras Argueta’s resignation have increased during the week, and on Friday, both sectors joined in support of …
Guatemala City, Sep 5 (EFE).- Guatemala’s Attorney General Consuelo Porras Argueta said Tuesday she wouldn’t carry out a coup after a meeting with the Organization of American States Secretary General Luis Almagro. In a statement, Porras Argueta said “that the only truth is what the Secretary General” Almagro was told Tuesday, who is in Guatemala …
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Guatemalans head to the polls on June 25 to pick a new president, as regional watchers warn of a downward spiral of kleptocracy and weakening rule of law in Central America’s most populous nation.
In April 2013, the Guatemalan Ministry of Energy and Mines granted Tahoe Resources an exploitation license for the Escobal mining project. After that, the conflict around the mine escalated. On 2 May 2013, the government of Guatemala declared a state of emergency in and around San Rafael Las Flores, a town some 90 kilometres from the capital, following a series of violent incidents around the mining operation of Minera San Rafael, a subsidiary of the Canada and US-based Tahoe Resources Inc. Previously, in January 2013, unknown armed men attacked the mine site resulting in the deaths of two security guards and another person, presumed to be part of the group attacking the site. For more information, see: