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• Guatemala mom to ask US court help on adopted girl

  -- A Guatemalan mother who says her child was stolen and later turned over to a U.S. couple for adoption said Tuesday that she will go to a Missouri court seeking to get her daughter back now that the U.S. State Department has said it doesn't have jurisdiction   Read more »

• Feds nab third man suspected in airport drug plot

  informant told agents that Baxter was helping Marroquin sell his motorcycle and other belongings so he could flee to Guatemala, and that she would soon follow with their unborn child. She was charged with aiding his escape late Monday after agents saw her   Read more »

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• Quiet Guatemalan prosecutor takes on dictator, drug gangs

  CITY (Reuters) - For nearly 30 years, Efrain Rios Montt evaded trial for massacres carried out during his military rule in Guatemala's civil war - until a diminutive, soft-spoken woman entered his life. Since Claudia Paz y Paz became Guatemala's attorney general 11:26 AM from Reuters Mobile Read more »

• Fundraiser set for Guatemala orphanage

  The trip was organized by Dr. Nancy Colodny, a specialist and professor at St. John's University. She teaches a course in Guatemala during which students volunteer at the orphanage. The group brought many supplies, some of which Saints donated, including clothing, 10:04 AM from Lowell Sun Online Read more »

• The People beat checking out Scotland 5-1 for Tuesday

  qualified satisfies for any 2014 FIFA Community Tumbler? for 8 Summer around Tampa from Antigua plus Barbuda and after that Guatemala for 12 Summer. It's a vibrant standard most people facial area, inches Klinsmann reported. It is going to signify considerably 5:34 AM from Silicon India Read more »

• Historic gang truce in El Salvador impacts LA immigrant community

  we see peace in our neighborhoods?" he asked the assembled crowd. "Can’t we see peace in Guatemala, in Honduras, in Mexico, in 'otros lugares,' wherever? Can’t we see it when El Salvador has peace?" L.A.-based priests and mothers of slain gang members are 5/29/12 from Southern California Public Radio Read more »

• Herp paradise preserved in Guatemala

  that has been called the most important conservation area in Guatemala. "This major land purchase lifts the last hurdle for the Guatemalan government to declare the area a National Wildlife Sanctuary, something that local communities and conservationists have 5/29/12 from Mongabay.com Read more »