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Drunk soldiers en un bordello. - Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:03:59 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala Antigua, 14 febrero 1990, nighttime. James managed to persuade me to talk some locals into bringing us to a bordello, not that that took much persuation....the promise of a free bottle of Venado did it all. The inside of this bordello is a complete mess with sigarette buts, dirty tissues and used condoms littering the floor....

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This is what I've been up to... - Don't you want to get in on this'?, Guatemala (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:05:03 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Don't you want to get in on this'?, Guatemala Here's some photos of El Zapote as I'm getting the update ready on this village

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Guatemala President Colom to visit Taiwan (The Earth Times Online Newspaper)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:38:01 GMT

Taipei - Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom will visit Taiwan in October to promote ties, the Central News Agency said on Saturday. Speaking by phone from Guatemala's capital Guatemala City, Taiwan's new ambassador to Guatemala, Sun Ta-cheng, said Col...

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tin tin la guatemalteca part 2 - Antigua Guatemala, Western Highlands, Guatemala (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:53:32 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Antigua Guatemala, Western Highlands, Guatemala A couple of days ago I found out what it must be like to be a native in El Salvador. I was taking the chicken bus from one town to another and not too long after we started off, a road block came up and the cops chose to have us stopped. It's a very random thing, kinda like DUI roadblocks at...

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tin tin in antigua - Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:13:58 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala I went to Chichicastenango (Chichi for short) a couple of days ago when there is market day. There are artisans and produce vendors, cooked food and live chickens, a catholic church that has Mayan rituals on its Tikal-like steps and all of this collides with a resounding "Squawk!". The market is like Jatuchak...

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tin tin la guatemalteca! - Antigua Guatemala, Western Highlands, Guatemala (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:11:41 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Antigua Guatemala, Western Highlands, Guatemala I had heard one too many times how much I would love Antigua Guatemala. So from Copan, Honduras I hopped aboard a mini van and crossed the border. I planned to only stay for a couple of days as this was a turn I didn´t expect to take. The van was fun and I met some great people. ...

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Is It The Most Beautiful Lake In The World ? - Lake Atitlan, Guatemala (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:01:40 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Lake Atitlan, Guatemala Accommodation Panajachel has many low budget hotels. The best place to start looking is down near the lake shore on Calle Ramos, which is a narrow cobbled street nestled between two restaurants. Calle Ramos is only 100 metre´s long but has 6 fine budget hotels all with en-suite and cable TV going for 70 - 125 Quetzales a night....

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Santa Maria de Jesus. - Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:16:45 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala Santa Maria de Jesus, 13 febrero, 1990. It`s early morning 06.00 o`clock and the morning still chilly, the air from the Guatamala highlands is crisp and cold. Lucky for us this taxi driver we just woke up is boiling us a pot of water for coffee on a small stove he had in the back of his car. A toothless grin is on his weathered...

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Slow news day? (Editors' Corner)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:32:54 GMT

Who knew my resignation would get such play? LAObserved, Reporter-G and FCBlog blogged about my soon-to-be departure. Effective July 22, I will be preparing to travel to Guatemala and then return to my native New York. I will stay in...

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Young drowning victim identified (ajc.com)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:38:25 GMT

The 17-year-old youth who drowned Friday in Lake Lanier has been identified as Aeriel Cotuc Chaudjay, a Duluth teen who had immigrated to this country from Guatemala.

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Studying a sad past (Deseret Morning News)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:33:47 GMT

A man carries the coffin of a victim of the 1981 massacre of 79 people by the Guatemalan army for a mass burial in Cocop, Guatemala. Anthropologists from the Forensic Analysis and Applied Science Center exhumed the remains of 51 of the victims of the April 16, 1981, massacre for a two year study before returning the remains to their families. At least 250,000 people disappeared or were...

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Celebre su independencia (Division of Labour)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:16:22 GMT

A few of us DOLers are in Guatemala for the APEE board meeting. Since I can't shoot any roman candles this year, allow me to celebrate with you by pasting these timeless words, never perfunctory. IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776....

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Goldcorp Provides Information on Marlin Power Supply Interruptions (The Earth Times Online Newspaper)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:43:46 GMT

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- 07/04/08 -- GOLDCORP INC. (TSX: G)(NYSE: GG) today announced that the Marlin mine in Guatemala has experienced power interruptions as a result of tampering with lines supplying power to the mine site, resulting in per..

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Goldcorp Inc.: Goldcorp Provides Information on Marlin Power Supply Interruptions (Market Wire - Manufacturing and Production: Mining and Metals)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:43:00 GMT

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (MARKET WIRE) GOLDCORP INC. (TSX: G)(NYSE: GG) today announced that the Marlin mine in Guatemala has experienced power interruptions as a result of tampering with lines supplying power to the mine site, resulting in periodic idling of the mill facility. Mining activities at the underground and open pit have been largely unaffected and ore continues to be stockpiled...

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leaving utila - San pedro sula, Honduras (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:50:56 GMT

Hondarus/guatemala/mexico

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goodbye seattle - Seattle, Washington, United States (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:56:45 GMT

Central American Adventure - Honduras, Guatemala, and Belize

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Slow, painful task: identifying Guatemalan dead (OTB News)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:55:06 GMT

COCOP, Guatemala (AP) — Guatemala’s 36-year civil war cost some 200,000 lives, mostly of Mayan Indians caught between government forces and rebels. Twelve years after peace was signed, forensic anthropologists are still hunting for the missing….

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Our first stop in Guatemala...Antigua - Antigua Guatemala, Western Highlands, Guatemala (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:39:31 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Antigua Guatemala, Western Highlands, Guatemala So we have finally arrived in Guatemala. After traveling for 13 hours (10 hour layover in LAX) we flew into Guatemala City and immediately took a shuttle to Antigua. The drivers are ridiculous here, so scary! We slept most of yesterday, then ate and found a small bar by our hostel to...

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Slow, painful task: identifying Guatemalan dead (Boston Globe)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:30:28 GMT

Guatemala's 36-year civil war cost some 200,000 lives, mostly of Mayan Indians caught between government forces and rebels. Twelve years after peace was signed, forensic anthropologists are still hunting for the missing.

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Antigua. - Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:52:23 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala Antigua, night time, 0utside of the gringo bar we are in, I can see the red glow coming out of the crater of Volcan Fuego. It`s a magnificient scene and one I can hardly get enough of. All around me I can hear, once again, fucked-up spanish spoken by the many americanos that, like in Panajachel, have come to this part of...

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