After the surprise defeat of Guatemala 3-2 against Guyana in the first game of the preliminary phase of the Gold Cup 2025coach Luis Fernando Tena gave his face and analyzed the performance of the team, recognizing the mistakes but trusting that the blue and white can revert the score in the return. The match began with surprises from the first...
What is the current situation in the Puerto Quetzal anchorage area? About 40 ships are waiting
The Port Company Quetzal (EPQ) in Escuintla, registered on Friday, March 21 in the anchor zone about 40 ships for the import and export of goods waiting to find a space to make the maneuvers loading and discharge. The information was confirmed by the president of the Board of Directors of La Portuaria, Vice Admiral José Antonio Lemus Guzmán, who...
Controversy arises between the Municipality of Quetzaltenango and the IND for energy supply collection
The disagreement is derived from an upward adjustment of the rate that was stipulated that each quarter would be applied gradually, as established by the contract for the purchase of power and electricity to meet the demand of the users of the social rate and non -social rate of the Municipal Electric Company of Quetzaltenango (EEMQ), tendered in 2019 and...
The population sees justice as something distant
On March 25, the report on the situation of human rights in Guatemala will be presented. The document, prepared by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OACNUD), analyzes the achievements and challenges faced by the country in this matter during 2024. In that context, Mika Kanervavuori, representative of Oacnudh in Guatemala, points out that one...
Evolution towards modernity in capital markets
Business life Banco Promerica incorporates into its portfolio the second issuance of dematerialized bonds with social theme for an amount of USD $ 15 million, which are recorded electronically, symbolizing an evolution towards the modernity and efficiency of the instruments in the capital markets. Business life March 21, 2025 | 18: 24h The banking entity marked a before and after...
The missing Guatemalans in search of reaching the US.
The recent location of graves and a clandestine crematorium in Jalisco, Mexico, has generated outrage in that country and concern in other nations, especially in those where migrants start to the United States and whose whereabouts are still unknown, it is still unknown, it is the case of Guatemala, where Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINEX) reports a number of missing...
The Mineco claims to be attentive to the reciprocal tariffs that Trump can impose to analyze actions
The Deputy Minister of Integration and Foreign Trade, of the Ministry of Economy, Héctor Marroquín commented that the United States and Guatemala already give an equal treatment of free access of products, but shows that there is uncertainty due to measures that this country is looking to implement. Asked if there is the possibility of changing these conditions despite the...
Baby technology is booming and this is what a father helped him
Last spring, when my wife and I prepared to welcome our first child, we began to make a list of baby articles, a passage rite for parents. The difference with our list, or so I believed, was that I would only contain the best, because I was reviewed by me, a technology columnist with 20 years of experience testing products....
The clues inside an “extermination field” that promise answers, despair and faith
Irma González recognized the gray backpack of the photo. It was the same as his son had used in high school, the same that had taken his first job three years ago, just before he disappeared. When González, 43, saw the images on television of fragments of bone and personal personal belongings that had been discovered in a ranch in...
The power spaces that are at stake
An Appeals Chamber ordered that the new Board of Directors and the Court of Honor of the Bar Association and Notaries of Guatemala (CANG) assumed their positions, despite the fact that the outgoing authorities intended to extend their mandate for a challenge not yet resolved. Behind that conflict there are key decisions for the justice and policy of the country,...