Tuesday, 12 October 2010 13:54 Barbara Schieber Today and yesterday many of the 150 country delegations that participated at Conference for Reconstruction and Transformation of Guatemala expressed their support for the plan proposed by the Government of Guatemala. At the same time it seemed clear to most international participants that Guatemala will never be able [...]

The following excerpt is from a May 12, 2010 article published by the E-Commerce Journal.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Guatemala, that represents developing country that still faces many social problems, is among the 10 poorest countries in Latin America. The country is bordered by Mexico to the north and [...]

The following excerpt is from an April 2, 2010 article published by ApparelNews.net.  To read the article in its entirety, click here. GUATEMALA CITY—Inside the cinderblock walls of the Los Volcanes knitting mill, located just outside of Guatemala City, the rows of metal machinery are old, but the ownership is new. In 2008, the mill [...]

The following excerpt is from an April 1, 2010 article published by the Houston Business Journal.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. An AEI Services LLC subsidiary has closed on long-term financing to build a 300-megawatt power plant in Guatamala. Jaguar Energy Guatamala LLC received a $350-million, 10-year loan from a [...]

The following excerpt is from a March 19, 2010 article published by The Economic Times.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. MEXICO CITY: Internet giant Google is adding two native Central American languages — Maya and Nahuatl — to its universal search service, a company official said Thursday. Searches in these [...]

The following excerpt is from a March 11, 2010 article published by Business Week.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. The Guatemalan chicken chain established a niche with immigrants in the U.S.  Now it’s hungry for more. Carla Flores emigrated to Chicago from Honduras 27 years ago. Her husband, Eric Ruiz, [...]

The following excerpt is from a March 9, 2010 article published by Commodity Online.  Click here to read the article in its entirety. GUATEMALA CITY (Commodity Online) : Central American republic of Guatemala said its sugar exports to neighbor Mexico surged to close to 200,000 metric tons this fiscal. According to Guatemalan Sugar Growers Association, [...]

The following excerpt is from a February 25, 2010 article pubished by The Guatemala Times.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Guatemala – The green Gold of Guatemala is Cardamom. 23,000 tones of cardamom are cultivated in Guatemala annually. This makes Guatemala the world’s largest exporter. Guatemala’s cardamom production sets the [...]

The following excerpt is from a February 25, 2010 article published by The Wall Street Journal Online.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. GUATEMALA CITY (Dow Jones)–Harvesting of Guatemala’s current 2009-10 coffee crop continues at slow pace and weather problems are making a recovery more difficult, Guatemala’s National Coffee Association, or [...]

The following excerpt is from a February 12, 2010 article published by Business News Americas.  To read the entire article please click here. Guatemala’s US$12bn technological corridor project (CTG) to link ports on the Atlantic and Pacific oceans will get underway in June this year, northeastern municipalities’ association head Álvaro Olavarrueth told BNamericas. The corridor [...]

The following excerpt is from a February 3, 2010 article published in The New York Times.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. In Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, they wait on corners for odd jobs, sending as much money as they can back home to Guatemala. They gather at the small churches that double [...]

The following excerpt is from a January 26, 2010 article published by The Seattle Times.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Reuters reports that Starbucks has reduced purchases of Costa Rican coffee this year. Guatemalan growers said in December that Starbucks was slow buying their coffee, too, and some speculated then [...]

The following excerpt was taken from an article published in Taiwan News on January 15, 2010.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Taipei, Jan. 15 (CNA) Vice President Vincent Siew said Friday that the government will continue to promote investment in Guatemala and that a proposed investment by a major Taiwanese [...]

The following excerpt is from a January 10, 2010 article from mydigitalfc.com, out of India.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. (emphasis added) Since early 2006, cardamom prices have been on an upward trajectory. As the harvesting season ends, there are reports of lower arrivals in the mandis in Kerala, a [...]