Topic: Guatemala City
AP News | 2009-12-21 05:59:34
FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2009 file photo, a public bus driver looks to the camera in Guatemala City. Gunmen have killed more than 170 bus drivers in 2009 to scare them and their transportation companies into paying extortion fees ...
AP News | 2009-12-21 07:21:31
Guatemalan gangs extort, murder bus drivers to build country's organized crime rackets
Bus driver Mynor Gonzalez ignored the threats: "200 quetzales a week, or we'll kill you." He knew drivers who didn't pay the roughly $24 "protection" fee had been murdered, but always on other routes. He knew his job — once considered secure and well-paying for Guatemala ...
AP News | 2009-12-17 21:48:59
FILE - In a Tuesday, May 27, 2008 photo, an unidentified woman holds a child for adoption as she waits outside the Attorney General's office in Guatemala City. The number of foreign children adopted by Americans plunged by 27 percent ...
AP News | 2009-11-29 22:41:21
In this May 19, 2009 photo, a buzzard flies over the National Cemetery in Guatemala City. In an unregulated industry, improvised morticians called "calaqueros," or "skullmongers," rush to crime scenes to make sales pitches to bereaved relatives for coffin-wake-funeral packages ...
