The following excerpt is from a July 13, 2010 article published by The Christian Science Monitor. To read the article in its entirety, please click here.
The Tampa sinkhole that swallowed a car Sunday is not as deep, wide, or perfectly cylindrical as the Guatemala sinkhole that emerged in late May to rabid news coverage…
…Despite the US public’s voracious appetite for the coverage of the sinkhole, which appeared on May 29, the Guatemala Times refuses to cover it anymore.
“Guatemala has so many problems. The sinkhole is really not a problem, except in the little neighborhood where it happened,” says Ms. Schieber, who was born in Guatemala to a Guatemalan father and a German mother.
In a June 3 op-ed on the Guatemala Times website, Schieber wrote that the top story about Guatemala was not the volcanic eruption of Pacaya or tropical Storm Agatha, which killed more than 120 people in Guatemala. Rather…
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