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	Guatemala - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		At that time, the Guatemalan Republic included the Soconusco region, as well as what are now the countries of El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.
		Guatemalan history has been marked by the scenario of the Cold War between the USA and the USSR.
		Contributing reasons include the will of several Guatemalan military governments to not lose the war, the widespread racism within the country, and perhaps most notably, the activities and strategies utilized by the URNG insurgents.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/g/u/a/Guatemala.html (1665 words)

	Guatemala - Gurupedia
		Guatemalan history has since been marked by revolutions, coups and non-democratic governments, mainly due to United States intervention around agrarian land reform issues.
		Guatemalan state-sponsored violence ended in 1996, leading to successive successful democratic elections in 1999 and 2003, that still have not addressed the impact of an agriculturally based economy where 1% of the wealthy own over 60% of the land and wealth.
		Bill Clinton publicly apologized to the people of Guatemala in the late 1990s recognizing for the first time the US role in the state sponsored violence, a military campagin that resulted in over 100,000 Maya people including children dead, and countless others missing and thousands more fleeing to Canada and the United States.
	www.gurupedia.com /g/gu/guatemala.htm (740 words)

	Suchmaschine
		There is archeological proof that early Guatemalan settlers were hunters and gatherers -- pollen samples from Petén and the Pacific coast indicate that maize crops were developed around 3500 BC.
		The new Guatemalan Republic included the Soconusco region, and what are now the countries of El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.
		In 1992, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Rigoberta Menchú, an indigenous human rights activist, for her efforts to bring international attention to the government-sponsored genocide against the indigenous population.
	www.dmoz.ch /lexikon.cgi?sprache=en&q=Guatemala (4804 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Guatemala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Guatemalan history has been marked by the scenario of the Cold War between the United States and the USSR.
		This was known as Operation PBSUCCESS and led to over 3 decades of unrest in the nation in which over 100,000 Guatemalans were killed, mostly indigenous Mayan Indians, more than 450 Mayan villages were destroyed and over one million people became refugees.
		Contributing reasons include the will of several Guatemalan military governments to not lose the war, the widespread racism within the country, and perhaps most notably, the terrorist activities and strategies utilized by the URNG Marxist insurgents.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/Guatemala.html (2707 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		There is archaeological proof that early Guatemalan settlers were hunters and gatherers, but pollen samples from PetÃ©n and the Pacific coast indicate that maize cultivation was developed by 3500 BC.
		In 1992, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Rigoberta MenchÃº, an indigenous ex-terrorist (URNG) and presently a human rights activist, for her efforts to bring international attention to the government-sponsored genocide against the indigenous population.
		Although Spanish is the official language, it is not universally spoken among the indigenous population, nor is it often spoken as a second language.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Guatemala (4280 words)

	CIA Hit List of Guatemalans
		The CIA considered assassinating Guatemalan leaders more than 40 years ago, reviewing a list of 58 targets and training some gunmen for the job, but the killings were not carried out, the agency said yesterday.
		Although most details of the Guatemalan operation have been well known for years, yesterday's release of documents was the first time that the CIA disclosed that assassinations had been contemplated.
		In the end, as previously reported, a paramilitary force of exiled Guatemalans was trained and sent into the country to create pressure on Arbenz and "persuade military leaders inside the government to cooperate in a coup against Arbenz," the agency said.
	www.serendipity.li /cia/assassin.html (723 words)

	List of people by nationality - meaning of word (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		People on these lists should be notable in some way and should ideally have articles of their own.
		As for list of poets, it falls into the same catergory as list of architects, list of physicists and list of footballers (soccer) (maybe football players?) where it's a profession and not a nationality User:Mintguy : Hmm, I can see your point.
		list of United States citizens, list of United Kingdom citizens) ::As things currently stand we have the worst of everything: there's no clear distinction between citizenship and ethnicity (ethnicity could be covered by something like list of people of Chinese ethnicity), and the current standard form doesn't work for some countries/regions (e.g.
	www.wordsonline.org /List_of_people_by_nationality (3314 words)

	Guatemala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Guatemalan history has since been marked by revolutions, coups, non-democratic governments, and various interventions by the United States.
		A 36-year war between the guerrilla and the Guatemalan Government ended in 1996 with the signing of a peace treaty.
		Guatemalan political violence ended in 1983, leading to successive successful democratic elections from 1985 to date.
	www.creekin.net /n76-guatemala.html (785 words)

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		Guatemalan army says that units of the rebel Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres (EGP) attacked their troops on April 15 from the village of Cocob, near Nebaj (in the Ixil).
		Although the Guatemalan government has not yet satisfied all of the conditions posed by the United States to qualify for the reinstatement of military aid, Ambassador Stroock reports that it has made major progress meeting specific and general human rights goals.
		Description of the Guatemalan military officer who was a paid intelligence asset for the CIA until the U.S. press revealed in March of 1995 his role in covering up the murder of American inn-keeper Michael DeVine in 1990, and in the torture and murder of Efraín Bámaca.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB11/docs (3055 words)

	Guatemalan Village Overwhelmed by Task of Digging Out Hundreds of Dead From Mud - New York Times
		GUATEMALA CITY, Oct. 9 - Hundreds of men in the Guatemalan Indian village of Panabáj hacked with hoes and shovels on Saturday at the river of mud about a half mile wide and as deep as 20 feet that hit their town last week.
		Guatemalan authorities reported that the death toll went up again on Sunday, to 652 people from the 508 that had been reported Saturday.
		An article on Oct. 10 about Guatemalan villagers trying to dig out bodies of people killed in a mudslide in an area hit by rainstorms from Hurricane Stan incorrectly described an episode in 1990 in which troops killed people in the village, Panabáj.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/10/10/international/americas/10guatemala.html?ex=1286596800&en=7577b71757656e20&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=all (1028 words)

	The President's Narcotics Certification Determinations
		And then drawing from this list, the President made a determination of which countries had "failed demonstrably" to meet their international counternarcotics commitments.
		And, essentially, what we do every year with respect to all the countries in the world that are present on the Majors List is, we present them a list of drug-related benchmarks we expect that they will comply with over the course of the year, and on which we evaluate their performance.
		And we have seen some action on the part of the Guatemalan congress to change legislation that allows seized assets in narcotics-related cases to be shared with the police and the prosecutors.
	www.state.gov /p/inl/rls/rm/24116.htm (4263 words)

	Guatemalans tops at filling area roof jobs
		The Guatemalan government estimates there are between 500,000 and 600,000 Guatemalans in Los Angeles.
		Most of the Guatemalans entering Arizona illegally come from the same region, Quetzaltenango and Huehuetenango, said Milton Alvarez, vice consul for the Consul General of Guatemala in Los Angeles.
		The men, all Guatemalan immigrants, strapped on leather tool belts and stuffed handfuls of nails into bags hanging from their waists.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/news/articles/0531roofers31.html (1337 words)

	All articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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	nba.servegame.org /en/Special:Allpages/List_of_Go.htm (1019 words)

	Casa Xelajú
		If you are an advanced student who wants to study Guatemalan history we strongly recommend buying, Guatemala: Voces desde el Silencio, a Spanish language narrative edited by Mark Zimmerman.
		If you want to bring gifts for your family, simple and inexpensive items such as wool socks, T-shirts from your city or school, pens, pencils, crayons, sewing material, shampoo, towels and kitchen items would be considered generous.
		Remember that Guatemalans tend to be shorter and smaller build than people from the US or Europe.
	www.casaxelaju.com /form/bienvenida/listasw.htm (784 words)

	Amazon.com: Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans: Books: David Stoll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Neither, he argues, was she monolingual and illiterate, as she claimed to be; her presentation of self as "noble savage," he continues, gave her an unwarranted moral authority when she presented stories that she had heard from others as if she had been a participant.
		The Guatemalans have gone through a devestating civil war in which hundreds of thousands of civilians, most of them poor, have "been disappeared"--for which that new use of those verbs was created.
		In the Guatemalan case the author also demonstrates that the indians were used as pawns to further the objectives of the Left and their guerilla surrogates.
	www.amazon.com /Rigoberta-Menchu-Story-Poor-Guatemalans/dp/0813336945 (4437 words)

	World Movement for Democracy - Memory Projects
		The Collective of the Families gathers testimonies and establishes lists of those who have been "disappeared." The organization aims to set up committees for the families of the disappeared in various regions across Algeria and campaign to inform international opinion about the gravity and scale of the problem of disappearances.
		Additionally, a list of names of the disappeared can be viewed with links to pages containing biographical information and details about the individual.
		In a public ceremony held in Guatemala City in February 1999, CEH handed the final report, entitled "Guatemala: Memory of Silence," to representatives of the Guatemalan government, the former opposition group, and the U.N. Secretary General.
	www.wmd.org /wbdo/aug-sep06/list.html (1192 words)

	Guatemala, hotels, cars, information, tips
		A 36-year war between the guerilla and the Guatemalan Army ended in 1996 with the signing of a peace treaty.
		Guatemalan state-sponsored violence ended in 1983, leading to successive successful democratic elections from 1985 to date.
		Along the Caribbean cost, influences of the African culture can be seen, heard and tasted in the religious ceremonial songs, the dances and food.
	www.flights-and-hotels.com /guatemala/index.htm (823 words)

	Guatemala '54
		The "A" list of those to be assassinated contained 58 names--all of which the CIA has excised from the declassified documents.
		Document 4, "Guatemalan Communist Personnel to be disposed of during Military Operations of Calligeris", Origin deleted, Undated.
		Another version of the assassination lists compiled by the CIA and Carlos Castillo Armas (code-named "Calligeris") in the course of preparing for the 1954 coup.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB4 (994 words)

	Book
		Feminist, environmentalist and political activist, she is one of the leading agents of change in Kenya.
		Won the Nobel Peace Prize for her exposé on the plight of native Guatemalans and her advocacy on their behalf.
		An American nun who was raped and tortured by Guatemalan security forces who were overseen by an American national, she has worked ceaselessly to force the U.S. government to open its case files on all those brutalized in Guatemala.
	www.speaktruth.org /defend/alpha_list.html (1166 words)

	Grand Island HomeFinder \| Grand Island's #1 Homebuying Source (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Although the majority of the local Hispanic population is from Mexico at 5,389, data the U.S. Census Bureau released this month show that Hall County also had 972 residents from Central America and 42 from South America in 2000.
		Guatemalans topped the list of people from Central America at 583, while the census reported 90 Hondurans, 247 Salvadorans and 27 Colombians.
		She has seen Indian dialects -- Mum and Kanjobal, both from Guatemalan students -- and Mayan dialects.
	www.grandislandhomefinder.com /demo/borders.shtml (916 words)

	World: Helping Guatemalans heal
		Some 200,000 Guatemalans died or disappeared during the Central American nation's 36-year civil war, which ended with a peace agreement between leftist rebels and the government in December 1996.
		Since then, human rights groups have sent at least two dozen teams to look for mass graves where some of the nearly 50,000 Guatemalans still unaccounted for may be buried.
		With funding help from the Guatemalan government, private donors and several foreign governments, including the United States, excavators keep plunging into exotic jungles that under different circumstances would serve as backdrops for picturesque postcards.
	www.seacoastonline.com /2000news/3_12_w2.htm (866 words)

	Minnesota International Directory
		If your organization is not yet listed, we hope you'll spend a few minutes to add it.
		Listings will be posted a few days after they have been entered on the site.
		Your listing will be posted until you decide to remove it.
	www.tcglobal.org /directory/OrgList/orgResults.cfm (8568 words)

	San Francisco Chronicle News Stories
		David X. Young, a painter whose rodent-infested, illegally rented loft became a citadel of jazz improvisation and experimentation in the 1950s and '60s, died on May 22 in Manhattan.
		The Contra Costa Board of Supervisors released yesterday a list of 10 sites throughout the county where seniors can take refuge from heat waves and potential power failures.
		Guatemalans accuse ex-dictator of genocide / Mayas to file lawsuit against Rios Montt
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/artlist.cgi?d=/c/a/2001/06/06&key=MN&o=30 (1229 words)

	friendly dictators
		According to Amnesty International, arbitrary arrest, torture, disappearance, and political killings were everyday realities for Guatemalans during decades of US financed military dictatorship.
		In January 1986, Christian Democrat leader Vinicio Cerezo was elected President and said he had "the political will to respect the rights of man", but it didn't take long to find out that his political will was irrelevant in the face of Guatemala's well-oiled military machine.
		Paratroopers would arrive in a region with a list of "subversives" and provide it to local vigilante groups.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /US_ThirdWorld/dictators.html (9246 words)

	The Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Recipients List
		It is out of a desire to promote the causes of peace and justice, non-violence and love that The Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award is humbly given.
		Congregation of Benedictine monks for their active involvement in the sanctuary movement for Guatemalans and Salvadorans in exile.
		US Representative, respected voice of conscience in Congress for his unrelenting commitment to ending the war in El Salvador and throughout Central America, and for the compassionate care he gave his constituents in Massachusetts for nearly three decades.
	www.peaceabbey.org /awards/cocrecipientlist.html (3437 words)

	Guatemala: Childrens hollidays
		However, from birth Guatemalan children are made to know they are special, that they are loved, and this is especially made evident on special occasions.
		And as I'm sure you know, Guatemalans like other Ladinos are known for the affectionate "abrazo" or hug with pats on the back.
		Unfortunately, a majority of the Guatemalan population is in poverty, and although they may make some pretense of celebration, it is not nearly so evident or elaborate.
	en.allexperts.com /q/Guatemala-172/Childrens-hollidays.htm (736 words)

	The Function of the Drug War, by J. Orlin Grabbe
		When someone informed the Guatemalan military of this fact, they angrily demanded of the US to know if this were true.
		Yes, there are holes, the US admitted; but the US also claimed that no one would be able to find them, because of the ultra-sophisticated top secret technology involved.
		A consultant showed the Guatemalans the location of the holes using only a few hundred dollars of off-the-shelf electronic equipment.
	www.aci.net /kalliste/drugwar.htm (1253 words)

	Top Literature - List of Guatemalans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Victor Perera Guatemalan author, co-founder of the Los Angeles Jewish organization Ivri-NASAWI
		Carlos Leon Roldan, guatemalan ophtalmologist that invented a new treatment for blindness
		Edward Hirst), A Guatemalan that works for NASA.
	encyclopedia.topliterature.com /?title=List_of_Guatemalans (221 words)

	[CTRL] [21] The Great Heroin Coup
		Colonel Corvacho, the commandant at Oporto, confiscated Salby's false Guatemalan passport, issued to him in the name of Hugh C. Franklin, by Guatemala's Montreal consulate.
		Amnesty International recently announced that 2000 Guatemalans had been killed for political reasons during the "alarming upsurge" in violence in the eighteen-month period ending in December 1979.
		These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought.
	www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg29866.html (4904 words)

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