GUATEMALA CITY -- The Hotel Inter-Continental Guatemala recently opened here, adding 240 rooms to the capital's hotel inventory. Located in the Zona Viva district, rooms include one presidential suite ...

FILE PHOTO - Alvaro Arzu Irigoyen, President of Guatemala, speaks to the United Nations General Assembly September 21, 1999. REUTERS/Ray Stubblebine/File Photo GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Former ...

The most populous country in Central America with 14.7 million inhabitants, Guatemala is experiencing the common developing nation scenario – a huge youth population – as 70 percent of the population ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Guatemala’s capital and Rhode Island’s capital are now sister cities after a former Guatemalan president’s visit to Providence. Guatemala City Mayor Alvaro Arzu and Providence ...

I have both a personal and a professional attachment to Guatemala. It is the first country I covered as country economist at the World Bank in the early 1990s. Guatemala is a country with enormous ...

President Alvaro Colom has declared a state of emergency in the area surrounding Pacaya, which is 40 kilometres from Guatemala City. A TV journalist was killed by a shower of volcanic rock while ...

A recent report on extortion in Guatemala indicates that the criminal practice is mostly an urban phenomenon perpetrated by gang members who act with little fear of consequence. The report by ...

The Family Matters Association of Guatemala (AFI) welcomed the recent announcement by President Alejandro Giammattei that the country will be declared the “Ibero-American Pro-Life Capital” on March 9, ...

ANTIGUA, Guatemala -- The smell of chocolate permeates the long narrow alleys and cobblestoned streets of Guatemala’s ancient colonial capital. It wafts out behind the colored stucco walls of ...

GUATEMALA CITY --A rain-sodden hillside about 300 feet high collapsed onto a neighborhood on the outskirts of Guatemala's capital with a roar and wave of sudden darkness, killing at least 26 people ...

Two sinkholes formed in the middle of the streets of Villa Nueva, Guatemala, a town less than 13 miles southwest of the country's capital Guatemala City. Three people were injured, including two after ...