It began with a tweet on the social network Twitter (now X) in 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic. In 280 characters they offered a first mapping of COVID-19 infections at the national level. The exercise showed a gap, there was no official data available to everyone. This is how the COVID-19 Vaccination Atlas … Read more
La House Democracy Partnership (HDP) sent a letter to the Secretary of the United States Department of State, Antony Blinken, about the political crisis in Guatemala and where to express his concern about the attempt to undermine democracy in Guatemala. The House Democracy Partnership is a bipartisan committee of the United States House of Representatives … Read more
The family of the only fatality from the accident on October 12 in San Marcos (Guatemala) has identified her: she is Cuban and her name was Oryalis Cepeda. Her son, Dany Pérez, 16, was also traveling in the damaged vehicle, in which about 20 migrants were traveling. His aunt and sister of the deceased, Omayda … Read more
The human rights ambassador of the Netherlands will arrive in Guatemala to meet with different sectors and learn about the current situation of the Central American nation. The Embassador Wim Geerts He will arrive in Guatemala this Tuesday and will have a two-day agenda in the country, according to the Netherlands embassy this Monday. Read … Read more
In Guatemala, antigen and PCR tests are carried out to detect the coronavirus in public health services. This, according to figures from the Ministry of Healthhas 73,855 tests available, that is, an average of 217 for each of the 340 municipalities. According to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), covid-19 tests help countries improve their … Read more
Mexico convenes Latin American countries to discuss the migration problem on the continent. The meeting takes place on Sunday 22 in Palenque, in the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico. Cuba, Colombia, Honduras, Haiti, Venezuela, Ecuador and Guatemala will be present with the aim of designing a proposal for a common plan to present to … Read more
The majority of roads that were blocked in Guatemala were cleared this Saturday, as part of the regrouping by thousands of protesters calling for the resignation of the attorney general and head of the Public Ministry (Prosecutor’s Office), Consuelo Porras. He Ministry of communications Guatemalan detailed that there are currently three roads blocked throughout the … Read more
TuBus is the new means of municipal transportation in Guatemala City whose objective is to replace the red buses discontinued since 2020. The plan is for it to reach eight areas and the mayor’s office already has the vehicles for the first routes, but only one circulates because there is no enough drivers have been … Read more
The only fatal victim of a serious traffic accident that occurred this Thursday in Guatemala has not been officially identified yet. The charred body could belong to the driver of the vehicle that ended up burning after overturning on the stretch between Tecún Umán and Ocos, in San Marcos, or to one of the 20 … Read more
Thousands of Cubans, most of them young, have arrived in Tapachula, in the Mexican state of Chiapas, in the last week. Among them is George who, since last Thursday, has been sleeping, along with his cousin, in a tent in the ecological park of the city on the border with Guatemala. Both trust that the … Read more