The processes that mark the beginning of the first quarter of a century become the years after World War II and the current scenario, marked by the accelerated technological growth and the consequences of climate change throughout the planet. This explains his vision of these times the historian and doctor in Sociology Edeliberto Cifuentes, who...
Last Friday, and after a visit to the country for more than a week, the North American Army Engineers presented to the Government of Guatemala a plan with four actions to follow to design and build infrastructure that allows to expand the capacity of the Quetzal port . At the end of the meeting, President...
Guatemala Foreign Minister Carlos Ramiro Martínez Alvarado, asked this Monday, February 24 greater global dialogue in immigration matters when intervening in the UN Human Rights Councilforum where other Latin American members of the United Nations also defended the migrant collective against the growing pressures. “We consider continuing to encourage global dialogue with the purpose of...
Events Firefighters reported that they helped three people who were shot in bullets in the funeral home in zone 3 of the capital. Lifeguards attend to injured people in armed attack in front of funeral in zone 3. (Free press photo: volunteer firefighters) Volunteer firefighters reported that on Monday, February 24, there was an armed...
Justice The PNC reported that in a hospital the suspect remains of killing an agent in Sumpano, Sacatepéquez. PNC agent delivers notification to suspect of having participated in attack where an agent died in Sumpango. (Free Press Photo: PNC) The National Civil Police (PNC) reported that Julio “N”, 18, was notified of a arrest warrant...
21 years have passed since the National Civil Police (PNC) identified the first cases of extortion; At that time, without “any degree of danger.” Nowadays, the accusations reach millionaire figures, although the mediation of the authorities can avoid payment in eight out of 10 cases. The last week, the police declared a frontal fight against...
The police authorities indicated that between 2024 and what goes from 2025 identified 20 telephone numbers from which several extortion calls have been made. The calls have been made from the Canada prisons in Escuintla; Pavón, Fraijanes; Cantel, Quetzaltenango and Puerto Barrios, Izabal. The director of the PNC, David Custodio Boty, says that this problem...
These extortion tables, according to the PNC, are developed when an extortionist leader meets, who can be a sector leader who has several phones in his possession and who brings together with prisoners “experts in threats and extortive speech”. To each of these inmates the leader gives them a phone with balance and internet to...
The ambition to get public office has no rest in some politicians who, after having failed in the last electoral event, seek to integrate new organizations to achieve their mission. The data of the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) confirm that seven committees that seek to be political parties for the 2027 elections have as common...
Events The step is blocked at kilometer 46.5 of the Inter -American Route for the accident of a trailer. Involved trailer in km 46.5 of the Inter -American Route. (Free Press Photo: Víctor Chamalé) The morning of this Monday, February 24, a trailer knocked several high voltage posts and cables at kilometer 46.5 of the...