By TIM JOHNSON McClatchy Newspapers EL REMATE, Guatemala — The Peten jungle, once known for its jaguars and Mayan ruins, has fallen prey to a notorious Mexican drug gang that operates from remote jungle ranches and has begun openly challenging Guatemalan security forces for control of the roads. The struggle that’s under way in this [...]

MEXICO CITY — Democracy has taken root in Latin America, but remains fragile three decades since coup-imposed military regimes were replaced by freely elected governments, a U.N. report warned Tuesday. It says drug violence, weak states with corrupt police and inefficient courts, and wealth concentrated in few hands threaten representative government across the region. “There [...]

The following excerpt is from an July 31, 2010 article published by The Washington Post.   To read the article in its entirety, please click here. SAN SALVADOR — El Salvador Drug cartel violence in Mexico is quickly spilling south into Central America and is threatening to destabilize fragile countries already rife with crime and corruption, [...]

The following excerpt is from a July 22, 2010 article published by Stanford University News.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Children in Crisis: Stanford Researcher Blends Medicine, Politics to Improve Health of Guatemala’s Poorest BY ADAM GORLICK SAN JUAN EL MIRADOR, Guatemala – Dozens of children are heading into a [...]

The following excerpt is from a July 11, 2010 article published by The Latin American Times.  To read this article in its entirety, please click here. GUATEMALA CITY – Violence continues unabated in Guatemala, where at least 23 people, including six women and a girl, died in one day this weekend, the press reported Sunday, [...]

The following excerpt is from a May 24, 2010 article published by Eurasia Review.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. By Louisa Reynolds Indigenous midwives are estimated to attend almost two-thirds of the births in Guatemala, and their work has proved vital in the recognition of indigenous peoples´ medicine. But while [...]

The following excerpt is from a May 19, 2010 article published by the Guatemalan Times.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Guatemala City. Mr. Anand Grover, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to the highest attainable standard of health, visited Guatemala between 12-18 May 2010. On 18 May, he conveyed to [...]

The following excerpt is based on a May 17, 2010 article published by Inside Costa Rica.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. The week before he was killed, Rogelio Chivalan paid gangs a protection fee of $240 to drive his bus safely through neighborhoods they controlled. They killed him anyway, with [...]

The following excerpt is from a May 10, 2010 article published by PR Newswire.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. SHENZHEN, China, May 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Hard to Treat Diseases (HTDS; http://www.htdsmedical.com/) announces that the company successfully acquired the first contract for its Freeze-dried Varicella Vaccine. After the HTDS acquired Approval [...]

The following excerpt is from a May 1, 2010 article published by The Washington Post.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. A division of Johnson & Johnson is recalling 43 over-the-counter medicines made for infants and children — including liquid versions of Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl — after federal regulators [...]

The following excerpt is from an April 26 article published in The Guardian.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. The World Bank Group has said that it will offer free access to more than 2,000 financial, business, health, economic and human development statistics that had mostly been available only to paying [...]

The following excerpt is from an April 15, 2010 article published by The Guttmacher Institute.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. According to a new study of trends in the sexual behavior of young women in Central America, the proportion of 15–19-year-olds who have ever used a modern method of contraception [...]

The following excerpt is from an April 23, 2010 article published by 7th Space Interactive.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Consumption of healthy diets that contribute with adequate amounts of fat and fatty acids is needed for children. Among Guatemalan children, there is little information about fat intakes. Therefore, the [...]

The following excerpt is from an April 8, 2010 article published by The Latin American Herald Tribune.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. GUATEMALA CITY – Three brothers linked to extortion and armed robbery were killed by lynch mobs in two separate incidents in northwestern Guatemala, police said Thursday. Jeronimo Aj [...]

The following excerpt is from an April 5, 2010 article published in the Latin American Herald Tribune.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. PANAMA CITY – Violence and accidents claimed 273 lives across Central America during Holy Week, according to preliminary reports from first responders throughout the region. In Guatemala, police [...]

The following excerpt is from a March 23, 2010 article published in Business Week.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Guatemalan police say dozens of bus drivers clashed with authorities and used their vehicles to block access to the capital to demand better security. Police spokesman Donald Gonzalez says that one [...]

The following excerpt is from a March 14, 2010 article published by the Latin American Herald Tribune.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. GUATEMALA CITY – At least 130 children and adolescents have been killed in Guatemala thus far this year, a news agency that covers that segment of the population [...]

The following excerpt is from a March 11, 2010 article published by PR Newswire.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. SHENZHEN, China, March 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Hard to Treat Diseases (HTDS; http://www.htdsmedical.com/) and its subsidiary Mellow Hope announce that the company received Registration Certificate for its MEVAC-Vari vaccine in Guatemala. This [...]

The following excerpt is from a March 9, 2010 article published by Inside Costa Rica.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here.  (Emphasis Added) TEGUCIGALPA – Increase of violence is nowadays women’s main worry in Honduras, where more than 400 were killed in 2009 and most of those responsible remain unpunished. That [...]

The following excerpt is from a February 18, 2010 article published by CBC News.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. The rate of stillbirths in developing countries fell more than 30 per cent after birth attendants received basic training in newborn care, researchers have found.  The randomized, controlled trial included 62,366 [...]

The following excerpt is from a January 29, 2010 article published by The Times of India.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Chilean teenagers are becoming obese due to increasing fast food consumption while those from Mexico, Venezuela and Guatemala are not far behind. Chile, where 44.7 percent of people over [...]