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This is an adaptation of an article originally published in Plaza Pública as COVID19: La educación a distancia en un país con poco internet On Saturday, March 14, Guatemalan president Alejandro ...
The makeshift houses made of black plastic and bamboo line the road cutting through the lush green valley in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz. Rumors of a pending eviction permeate the small ...
The massive crowds of people in the streets last Monday, trying to collect their $300 dollar subsidy meant to compensate for their lost income from the COVID-19 emergency, has laid bare the miserable ...
Costa Rica has built a global brand as a standard-bearer for biodiversity, reforestation, and ecotourism – but when it comes to its fight against the climate crisis, a reality check is no further away ...
The Attorney General’s investigations into multi-million dollar irregularities in pandemic-related spending by government ministries have sparked a showdown with the National Civil Police (PNC), ...
Nayib Bukele ended his first year in office on June 1 besieged by the Covid-19 pandemic and reeling from the devastation of Tropical Storm Amanda, the latter of which, last weekend alone, left over a ...
Emilio Rodriguez was the first in his family to migrate to the United States. He left two months ago with his 9-year-old son, who is one more name on the list of 2,300 children separated from their ...
La Presidencia de la República ofreció 209,285.61 dólares, o una obra de valor equivalente —un gimnasio o una cancha de pádel—, al Condominio Residencial Los Sueños por la compra de la calle de acceso ...
Not long before noon on the day he was imprisoned, Francisco Chox, an indigenous Guatemalan TV journalist, was covering a protest in the Sololá department. Three weeks earlier, on May 25th, the ...
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La Presidencia de la República ofreció 209,285.61 dólares, o una obra de valor equivalente —un gimnasio o una cancha de pádel—, al Condominio Residencial Los Sueños por la compra de la calle de acceso ...