Guatemala City [Guatemala], Jun 18 ( ANI ): An earthquake measuring 5.6 magnitude on the Richter scale hit Guatemala's
Escuintla province at around 8:30 pm (local time) on Sunday, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
> Lilian Hernandez is comforted by her husband at the Mormon church that is now a shelter near
Escuintla, Guatemala.
The first Guatemalan Army officer that the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) attempted to extradite was Carlos Rene Ochoa Ruiz, a retired colonel known as "Charlie." In 1990, DEA agents infiltrated his organization, which operated from a farm in the department of
Escuintla, on the Pacific coast.
Cataractocoris shepardi Sites, Reynoso & Novelo, 2013; it is known from Mexico (Chiapas, Jalisco, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Veracruz) and Guatemala (
Escuintla, Suchitepequez).
ESCUINTLA, Guatemala, Safar 19, 1437, December 01, 2015, SPA -- Seventeen prisoners were killed in a gang brawl inside an overcrowded Guatemalan prison, including seven who were decapitated, officials said Monday, according to AP.
Under the purchase method of 'by exception' and after restricting the firms invited to bid beforehand, Guatemala's Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure & Housing awarded the contract to Cablan SA to improve the ten kilometer stretch of road between Sibilia and San Carlos Sija, for $5.7 million.It also awarded Consult Test, SA the contract for the expansion to four lanes of the CA-2 road section between
Escuintla and Pedro de Alvarado, for $11 million.
Presidents from both countries will sign a bilateral accord at the World Economic Forum in Davos agreeing to the construction of the pipeline, between Salina Cruz, Mexico and the southern department of
Escuintla, Guatemala, said Francisco Cuevas, a spokesman for the Guatemalan presidency.
In 2006 and 2007, respectively, Guatemala's Santa Rosa and
Escuintla foci were the first in the region to interrupt transmission in the Americas, (Table), followed by the Huehuetenango focus in 2008.
(1) Of 116 female sex workers who had received a positive STI diagnosis at one of three STI clinics in
Escuintla province, 98% said that it was likely or very likely that they would refer their current regular partner (husband or boyfriend) to the clinic within the next month; 83% intended to refer an occasional partner (nonpaying partner other than a regular partner); and 63% intended to refer their last paying client.
Three regions in the country's south,
Escuintla, Retalhuleu and Suchitepequez, were placed on red alert.