Curated Video
GUATEMALA: COUNTRY PLAGUED BY INCREASING CRIME RATE
Spanish/Nat
Guatemala is in the midst of its worst crime wave in recent history.
Violence is rampant in the major cities and crime rates continue to rise.
For many, crime and security have replaced the civil war as the most daunting...
Curated Video
Bus wreck kills at least 45 people in Guatemala
1. Police investigators at scene of crash
2. Various of numbers on bodies laid out in a row
3. Various of bus wreckage
4. Mid shot of police with victims' relatives
5. Bodies being stretchered away by police
6. Various of investigators...
Curated Video
SYND 10 2 76 INJURED PEOPLE EVACUATED FROM EARTHQUAKE SITE IN GUATEMALA CITY
1. various of aerials showing wreckage and destruction on ground
2. various of injured carried into helicopter
3. ms injured carried out of the helicopter and into field hospital
4. gv to ms small plane landing on country road
Film: Pos...
Curated Video
Trial opens of former dictator Rios Montt accused of genocide
1. Wide pan of trial of former Guatemalan dictator General Efrain Rios Montt
2. Close of Rios Montt sitting in courtroom
3. Close of Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu who is attending the trial in support of the victims
4. Mid...
Curated Video
Medics treat injured from mudslides and floods
1. Doctor tending child
2. Child being treated by doctor
3. Child being given medicine
4. Child's feet covered in mud
5. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Manuel Perez, Flood victim
"All the houses got filled with mud, just like this one,...
Curated Video
FILE: JUSTICE IN CHILE
Spanish/Nat
The British court ruling earlier this week denying Chile's Augusto Pinochet immunity from prosecution has unleashed political tremors amongst Latin American countries which suffered dictatorships during the 70's and 80's.
A...
Curated Video
SYND 28 2 76 AFTERMATH OF EARTHQUAKE IN GUATEMALA
Aftermath of earthquake in Guatemala.
1. ms men loading supplies in building
2. various of rubble and destruction
3. ms medical supplies handed out
4. cu baby given medicine from a syringe, no needle
5. mcu Dr Clyde Wellock speaking...
Curated Video
GUATEMALA: ALVARO ARZU CLAIMS VICTORY IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Spanish/Nat
Reform minded businessman Alvaro Arzu claimed victory in Guatemala's third presidential election since 30 years of military rule ended in 1985.
A blackout early in the morning threatened to hamper the tallying but electoral...
Curated Video
WRAP Latest news conference on condition of twins
1. Close up of conjoined twins on bed - father playing and talking to them
2. Various shots of twins being prepared for surgery
3. Mid shot of doctors viewing x-rays
4. Close up of twin with oxygen mask
5. Mid shot of surgery
6. Mid shot...
Curated Video
GUATEMALA: PACAYA VOLCANO ERUPTS
Spanish/Nat
Ash and sand has spewed more than six-thousand feet into the air from the Pacaya volcano, showering nearby Guatemala City with a rain of grey grit.
Authorities declared an emergency for towns around the base of the 8,420-foot...
Curated Video
Clinton arrives in country, comments on Turkish amb withdrawal
1. Wide of plane on runway
2. Cutaway of media
3. US Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton coming down plane steps, greeting officials
4. Mid of Clinton greeting officials
5. Wide of Clinton waving to media
6. Convoy of vehicles...
Curated Video
GUATEMALA: KIDNAPPED FEMALE MEXICAN UN WORKER IS FOUND DEAD
Natural Sound
A female Mexican U-N worker kidnapped by unidentified gunmen earlier this week in Guatemala has been found dead.
The body of Lucina Cardenas Ramirez was found in a shallow grave not far from where she was kidnapped on...
Curated Video
GUATEMALA: 11 PEOPLE DIE & 24 INJURED IN EXPLOSION ON BUS
Spanish/Nat
An explosion and fire in a bus in Guatemala City has killed 11 people and injured 24 Monday.
The blast was caused by a canister of paint thinner carried by a passenger, which was accidentally ignited by a cigarette.
The...
Curated Video
Mexicans, Haitians in traditional celebrations, drunk horse race in Guatemala
AP Television
Pomuch, Campeche, Mexico - 31 October 2012
1. Wide of cemetery
2. Mid of elderly woman removing wooden box containing bones of her parents from tomb
3. Various of wooden boxes containing skulls and bones
4. Close of elderly...
Curated Video
GUATEMALA: CHILDREN'S PROCESSIONS MARK BEGINNING OF HOLY WEEK
Spanish/Nat
Children's processions mark the beginning of Holy Week in Guatemala.
Parents take their little sons and daughters to the religious parade the Saturday before Palm Sunday as a way of initiating them into a tradition that is...
Curated Video
GUATEMALA: STUDENTS BLOCK TRAFFIC IN ANNUAL PROTEST PARADE
Spanish/Nat
Guatemalan students blocked traffic in the capital for several hours during an annual protest parade which this year turned its criticism on President Alvaro Arzu's economic policies.
The protest was the third major...
Curated Video
GUATEMALA: UN CHIEF KOFI ANNAN VISIT
English/Nat
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has wrapped up his trip to Guatemala as part of a five-nation tour of Latin America.
Annan got a first-hand look at the peace process the United Nations helped create and...
Curated Video
Latest on US Vice President Biden's trip through Central America
US Vice President Joe Biden met with Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina, who asked the US to start a temporary work programme for Guatemalan migrants and grant temporary protected status for Guatemalan migrants.
On Friday, the Obama...
Curated Video
SYND 04/04/1970 HUNT INTENSIFIES FOR WEST GERMAN AMBASSADOR
Police search cars at roadblocks as Karl Von Spreti, kidnapped by terrorists
1) ms exterior Guatemala National Palace
2) ms soldiers on guard
3) policeman
4) exterior palace, tilt down to troops on street
5) zoom to newspaper headline: ...
Curated Video
McAfee says he plans to seek asylum in Guatemala
1. Tracking of Telesforo Guerra, John McAfee's lawyer walking into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building to visit the Immigrant Care Centre
2. Mid of Guerra handing in asylum request for McAfee
3. Cutaway of press outside of Ministry...
Curated Video
GUATEMALA: FUNERALS BEGIN OF 82 SOCCER FANS KILLED AT STADIUM
Spanish/Nat
Funerals have begun for Guatemalan soccer fans killed in the country's worst-ever sporting disaster.
Convoys of hearses transported the victims of Wednesday night's stadium crush, that occurred during the World Cup...
Curated Video
LATIN AMERICA: FIRST VISIT BY POPE IN 13 YEARS
Spanish/Nat
Nearly 13 years after his last troubled visit, Pope John Paul II is returning to Central America to encourage peace in a region beset by war and decades of violence.
The Pope leaves Monday on a eight-day trip to Guatemala,...
Curated Video
Menchu protests against destruction of archaeological site
1. Wide of indigenous people playing drums and Mayan instruments
2. Wide of Tulam Tzu archaeological site
3. Pan from truck to "Monticulo 3" sign in archaeological site
4. Wide of protestors
5. Close-up of Nobel Peace Prize winner...
Curated Video
4:3 Massacre leaves 29 dead GRAPHIC ADDS reax
San Benito, Peten, 16 May 2011
1. Medium shot of police standing in front of ranch where bodies were found, message written in blood visible in background
2. Wide of ranch
3. Close of one of the victims' bodies, with hands tied behind...