Prosecutor: Grenades, ammunition seized from Mexican traffickers belong to Guatemalan armyGUATEMALA CITY — Thousands of bullets and grenades that were part of a Mexican drug cartel’s weapons cache belong to the Guatemalan army, Guatemala’s anti-drug prosecutor said Thursday. Guatemala president seeks int’l support in uproar over accusation he ordered lawyer killedGUATEMALA CITY — Guatemala’s government reached out for international support Wednesday in a bid to preserve the country’s stability, amid growing calls for President Alvaro Colom’s resignation after being accused of ordered the killing of a lawyer. Guatemala president asks for UN probe of slaying of lawyer who accused him in dramatic videotGUATEMALA CITY — A slain man’s videotaped and posthumously broadcast accusation that President Alvaro Colom ordered his murder threw Guatemala into an uproar and prompted government calls Tuesday for a U.N. agency and the FBI to investigate the killing. Murdered lawyer accuses Guatemala’s president in video tape made before slayingGUATEMALA CITY — A lawyer slain by gunmen over the weekend appears in a video tape that emerged Monday alleging that if anything happened to him it would be at the behest of Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom. Seismologists report 6.1 quake in Guatemala; deep epicenter, shaking light in capitalGUATEMALA CITY — Seismologists are reporting a strong but deeply centered earthquake in Guatemala. Former Guatemalan dictator’s son arrested for embezzlementGUATEMALA - Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt’s son has been arrested for allegedly embezzling $15 million, Cuban news agency Prensa Latina reported. |