Seattle is home to the best bike messenger in the world. At least, that’s what judges at a world-wide competition determined. Craig Etheridge, who’s been zipping around Seattle’s streets since 2003, won the 2010 Bike Messenger World Championship in Guatemala. He said the win was a bit of a surprise: Roads there are busy, confusing [...]

By Bernd Debusmann Jr NEW YORK | Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:07pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – More than 200 of the world’s most significant cultural heritage sites could be severely damaged or lost which would cost developing nations over $100 billion in lost revenue, a new report showed. Haiti’s Palace of Sans Souci, known [...]

MEXICO CITY — A new museum is bringing the lessons of the Holocaust and its grim cousins to new generations of Mexicans — and reminding them the intolerance that feeds genocide can even grow close to home. The five-story glass and concrete building inaugurated Monday beside Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department takes visitors through chilling displays [...]

The following excerpt is from an August 10, 2010 article published by The New York Times.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. The sound made by two women’s hands simultaneously patting corn dough into tortillas bears a strong resemblance to the sound of  scattered raindrops falling on a bare roof: staccato [...]

The following excerpt is from a July 17, 2010 article published by SIFY News.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Archaeologists have discovered a tomb of an ancient Mayan king in Guatemala, filled with materials that have been preserved for approximately 1,600 years. Brown University’s Stephen Houston and his colleagues uncovered [...]

The following excerpt is from a May 1, 2010 article published by TimesBulliten.com.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. The gated tourist community of Flores is where I have spent way too many days off of the bike enjoying the hostel and small talk with the locals. Flores is a city [...]

The following excerpt is from an article published by The Esperanza Project.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. By Tracy L. Barnett GUATEMALA CITY – Between the black smoke-belching chicken buses and the honking mass of cars that congest the streets of Central America’s largest capital, it’s hard to imagine a [...]

The following excerpt is from an April 26, 2010 article published in the Sydney Morning Herald.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. The Santiaguito volcano showered sand and ash on Monday over a large area of western Guatemala in an “unusual” and “violent” display, the national seismological institute said. The institute [...]

The following excerpt is from an April 23, 2010 article published by The Idaho State Journal.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. POCATELLO — Amid a downpour in the spring of 2005, Stanley Guenter worked quickly to excavate a panel from a Mayan temple bearing the ancient hieroglyphs of a long-dead [...]

The following excerpt is from an April 14, 2010 article published by Stuff.co.nz.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. It looks like the fiery pits of hell but I’m not dead yet. At least not if I keep my wits about me. A blast of heat rises between my feet and [...]

The following excerpt is from an April 1, 2010 article published by The Poughkeepsie Journal.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Ralph Ferrusi • Hike of the Week: Hike name: A walk through the Mayan ruins in Tikal, Guatemala, settled in 700 B.C. Length: We booked an all-day guided tour of [...]

The following excerpt is from a March 31, 2010 article published by ArtDaily.org.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. MEXICO CITY.- Iconographic studies of Teotihuacan murals confirm the extension of the lineage of a ruler of the ancient city of Tikal, Guatemala, already revealed by epigraphists of the Maya area. The [...]

The following excerpt is from a March 27, 2010 article published by Press Release.com.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. The Cycle Messenger World Championships (CMWC), will take place in Panajachel, Guatemala from September 3rd to 13th, 2010. Toronto, Canada, March 27, 2010 –(PR.com)– Now entering its 18th incarnation, the Cycle [...]

The following excerpt is from a March 24, 2010 article published by the Guatemala Times.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Guatemala will host the 4th Edition of the Magdalena Endurance Challenge on 24th of April 2010. Magdalena is a giant sugar mill in La Gomera, Escuintla. This event is the [...]

The following excerpt is from a March 24, 2010 annoucement from Grassland Online.  To read the annoucement in its entirety, please click here. Excited about CSD Municipal vs CD Suchitepéquez ? Looking for CSD Municipal vs CD Suchitepéquez Free live streaming tv link ? You can watch CSD Municipal vs CD Suchitepéquez. You can also [...]

The following excerpt is from a March 21, 2010 article published by the Telegraph UK.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Chris Moss offers a guide to Guatemala, ahead of this year’s celebrations to mark the bicentenary of Latin America’s fight for independence. Guatemala was once a major block of New [...]

The following excerpt is from a March 16, 2010 article published by USA Today.com.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. An archaeologist reports the ingredients of  ”Maya Blue” pigment beloved by Central America’s ancients may have been widely mined, not traded as previously suggested. In the Journal of Archeological Science report, Leslie [...]

The following excerpt is from a March 10, 2010 article published by Telegraph UK.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Cradled by the soaring peaks of the volcanoes Agua and Fuego, the Guatemalan city of Antigua is among the finest examples of Spanish-era architecture in the Americas, a place of baroque [...]

The following excerpt is from a March 11, 2010 article published by WSMT TV-Nashville.  Click here to read the article in its entirety. Serves 8 This beloved Guatemalan main course, also called pollo en jocon, is best served over rice with corn tortillas on the side for soaking up the rich and tangy tomatillo and [...]

The following excerpt is from a March 6, 2010 article published by The China Post.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. TAIPEI, Taiwan — Jaime Vinals Massanet, the first Central American mountaineer to have reached the world’s seven summits, is in Taiwan to scale the island’s highest peak, Yushan (Jade Mountain), [...]

The following excerpt is from a March 4, 2010 article published by SF Gate.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Marco Pappa scored to help Guatemala beat El Salvador 2-1 Wednesday night in an exhibition.  Jhony Brown also scored for Guatemala, which hasn’t lost to its neighbor in nine years. Pappa, [...]

The following excerpt is from a February 24, 2010 article published by Today Online.  Click here to read the article in its entirety. Some 1,700 years ago, the great Mayan civilisation chose this country in Central America to set up their most impressive structures – it was on these sacred grounds that their priests would [...]

This is excerpted from an article in the Latin American Herald Tribune on February 13, 2010. GUATEMALA CITY – Spanish researchers from Valencia University presented in Guatemala a book analyzing the meaning of drawings and incisions on a Mayan architectural decoration in the form of a mask dating back to between 300 and 600 A.D. The [...]

The following excerpt is from a February 11, 2010 article published by America’s Quarterly.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. On a smoggy Thursday afternoon in late January, Mark Camp, director for U.S.-based Cultural Survival Project, drives a big red truck with Massachusetts plates through Guatemala City traffic toward Congress. Camp—who [...]