Despite the furore over Washington’s controversial decision to recognize the sacred city of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Guatemala has decided to follow suit, announcing plans to relocate its embassy from Tel Aviv. Following a phone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday, the President of Guatemala, Jimmy Morales, announced his decision to move the embassy to Jerusalem. “We... 

These lights are treated as a “myth” or “conspiracy”. The “authorities” claim that “it is not clear what causes them and they have never actually been proven”. The death toll in the 8.2-magnitude earthquake that hit Mexico on Friday continues to rise, local authorities report. Three people were killed in the state of Chiapas, while two children died in... 

Barack Obama broke protocol and jabbed Donald Trump at the UN General Assembly. “Today, a nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself.” But, once again, a quick Google search shows Barack Obama’s hypocrisy. Obama is against a Trump border wall on the southern US border but helped pay for Mexico’s border wall with Central America. The Daily Caller reported: President Barack Obama has... 

A stunning new report from Judicial Watch claims vanloads of illegal immigrants are being driven from the border into the United States and put on buses with no paperwork or oversight. From the report: DHS Quietly Moving, Releasing Vanloads of Illegal Aliens Away from Border The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is quietly transporting illegal immigrants from the Mexican border to Phoenix and... 

The confirmed death toll of a mudslide on the outskirts of the Guatemalan capital has climbed to 73 with nearly 350 others still missing as rescue workers recover more bodies from a collapsed hillside. The Saturday development came as spokesman for Guatemala’s volunteer firefighters Julio Sanchez emphasized that the number of fatalities will most likely continue to climb as rescuers dig through... 

Guatemala’s ex-president, Otto Perez, says the US was behind his ouster from power by interfering in the Central American country’s domestic affairs days after he resigned and an arrest warrant was issued for him over corruption charges. Guatemalan prosecutors and the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) took action against Perez following months of probe. They also allegedly... 

A Guatemalan court has indicted former President Otto Perez Molina on corruption charges. Judge Miguel Angel Galvez on Tuesday ordered Perez to remain in jail while awaiting prosecution on charges of customs fraud, racketeering and bribery. The 64-year-old retired general will remain in custody until the trial in three months’ time. A UN commission tasked with fighting high-level graft in Guatemala... 

Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina has stepped down shortly after an arrest warrant was issued for him amid a corruption scandal that has rattled his government. The embattled leader decided to resign from presidency in order to confront “individually the proceedings against him,” his spokesman Jorge Ortega said on Thursday. Perez Molina’s resignation came hours after an arrest warrant was... 

The NSA’s data base contains information obtained during the surveillance of over a hundred world leaders, new leaks by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed. Der Spiegel has looked through a top secret presentation by NSA’s Center for Content Extraction, which is responsible for automated analysis of all types of text data. According to the document, the leaders of 122 states were among... 

Caracas brought talks with the US to an abrupt end over statements made by Samantha Power, the nominee for UN ambassador. Venezuela blasted Washington for backing Power’s “meddling agenda” after she criticized human rights in the country. The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry released a statement on Friday announcing an end to rapprochement negotiations between Washington and Caracas in Guatemala. “The... 

Central American coffee plantations are facing a serious challenge. Nearly 70 percent of coffee fields in Guatemala are affected by fungal infection called coffee rust. President of the Republic Otto Perez Molina introduced a state of emergency in the country. Guatemala’s national disaster threatens to turn into trouble for residents of other countries as well. Central America has long been... 

US internet security pioneer John McAfee, speaking live on the internet from the detention center of the immigration departament in Guatemala City said “no hope for my life” if he returned to Belize, December 10, 2012. Fugitive software tycoon John McAfee pleads to return home after facing deportation due to an illegal entry into Guatemala from Belize. On Monday, McAfee released an online... 

A car remains under the ruins of a collapsed house in San Marcos, 240 km of Guatemala City, November 7, 2012. The death toll of an earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale that hit Guatemala’s Pacific Coast has climbed to 52 with about 20 still missing. Media reports on Thursday quoted emergency services on the casualties, saying that almost a third of the dead are children and at least 150... 

Aztec Calendar, an adaptation of the Mayan calendar, consisted of a 365-day agricultural calendar, as well as a 260-day sacred calendar. (This is a digital composite. Color added for visibility.) The discovery in a Guatemala jungle of a previously unknown version of the Mayan calendar offers humankind a ray of hope: the world is not going to end on December 21, 2012 and could most probably last for... 

A recent study has suggested that the conditions caused by a mild drought might have been the reason for the collapse of the Mayan civilization. The research published in the journal Nature says a continuous 25 to 40 percent drop in rainfall reduced water supplies in the homeland of the ancient Maya civilization located in what is now southern Mexico and Guatemala. Researchers at the Yucatan Centre...