The former vice president Eduardo Caceres Lehnhoffthe former chancellor Adolfo Molina Orantestwo Spanish diplomats, five ladies from the administrative staff of the embassy of Spaina visitor and 27 supposed peasants who had taken it hours before were charred to death yesterday, at 3:20 p.m., when three Molotov cocktail bombs carried by the invaders exploded. Diplomats and embassy staff, including Jaime...
Terrorist bombing in Central Park
Four people died and 150 injured, as well as considerable economic losses, is the result of the powerful explosion of a bomb activated at 9:35 a.m. on Friday, September 5, 1980 in Central Park. Within 20 kilometers around, the detonation of the device was heard, which was placed in a vehicle in front of the south tower of the National...
The world’s largest sea turtle nests for the first time in Virginia; scientists monitor the unprecedented nest
A leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)considered the largest species of sea turtle in the world, deposited a documented nest for the first time in the state of VirginiaUnited States, a fact described by environmental authorities as a milestone for the conservation of biodiversity. The discovery occurred on a protected beach in front of the military complex Dam Neck Annexin Virginia Beach,...
Military coup overthrows General Lucas García
9.30 am Movement of troops and tanks in front of the National Palace, looking for positions. 10.30 a.m. The Central and Centenario parks are surrounded by tanks and hundreds of soldiers with their right sleeves rolled up, possibly as an identification of belonging to the movement. 11:00 a.m. It is rumored that the detachments of Cobán and Quetzaltenango do not...
Álvaro Contreras Vélez, director and co-founder of Prensa Libre, is kidnapped
The entire staff of PRENSA LIBRE, made up of intellectuals, workers, office workers and specialists in different branches of the newspaper’s production, appeals to the Guatemalan Labor Party (PGT), to give appropriate considerations to the director of PRENSA LIBRE, journalist Álvaro Contreras Vélez, and release him as soon as possible. The workers of this newspaper have the greatest esteem for...
cost, financing and pressure on fiscal policy
For the second time this year, The central government is forced to finance a temporary support program due to the rise in fuel prices in the local market through a state subsidy of Q12 per gallon of diesel and Q3 per gallon of regular gasoline. The measure arises in response to the protests registered this week on several roads in...
Trump seeks to unlock billions of dollars in frozen Venezuelan assets after earthquakes
According to sources familiar with the talks, the Trump administration and Venezuelan officials are exploring ways to unlock thousands millions of dollars in frozen assets abroadwith the goal of helping the South American nation recover from the two earthquakes without placing a greater burden on American taxpayers. The plan is to help the government of interim President Delcy Rodríguez rebuild...
Conap establishes permitted and prohibited activities in 33 giants in the country
The volcanoes of Guatemala are a tourist attraction for nationals and foreigners. However, in these spaces activities are carried out that can damage natural elementscultural and productive that they house, opputting people’s lives at risk who venture to climb them. For this reason, the National Council of Protected Areas (Conap) recently published the Regulations for the management of the definitive...
Horoscope for today Saturday, July 25, 2026
Aries (March 21-April 20) Work and business: errors will arise that will delay the progress of projects, but you will resolve them. Love: some opinion will be taken as a requirement in the relationship, but everything will be clarified. Taurus (April 21-May 20) Work and business: you will be happy with the plans, but there will be something that will...
Pope John Paul II visits Guatemala
Pope John Paul II pleaded “on behalf of all the victims who continue to suffer the scourge of fighting between brothers, that all forces of good will be strengthened to achieve peaceful social coexistence.” He said the above at 9:24 p.m. on Sunday, March 6, in Guatemala, after having listened to the welcome message presented to him by the president...