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Guatemalans use portraits, museum to seek those missing for decades
The faces of Guatemala's disappeared civil war victims are turning up on the walls of the capital.
Relatives of the disappeared and their supporters are using buckets of glue to stick photocopied flyers with portraits of the...
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CENTRAL AMERICA: HURRICANE MITCH AFTERMATH (2)
Foot of Casitas Volcano, Tipitapa, Nicaragua; Zacapa & Guatemala City, Guatemala; Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Washington DC, USA - November 2-3, 1998
Foot of Casitas Volcano
1. Wide shot volcano
2. Pan of deserted village
3. Rescue...
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Funerals for those killed during protests over high energy prices
1. Various of caskets being carried through the crowd of mourners during funeral service
2. Wide of caskets on stage
3. Close of mourners holding signs, sign on left reading (Spanish) "The deaths should not go unpunished." and sign on...
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GUATEMALA: GOVERNMENT AND LEFTIST REBELS AGREE TO CEASE FIRE UPDATE
Spanish/Nat
Central America's longest war is finally over.
Leftist rebels and government negotiators in Guatemala have agreed to a permanent cease-fire.
The move ends a civil war that had lasted 36 years and taken 140-thousand lives.
The...
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GUATEMALA: US STUDENTS RAPED IN ATTACK RETURN TO GIVE EVIDENCE
Spanish/Nat
Four American college students who were raped and robbed in a bus attack in Guatemala in January, returned there on Wednesday to give evidence in court against their alleged assailants.
The students, from St. Mary's College...
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Warrants issued for 4 military officials after disappearance of priests
Guatemala City, Guatemala - 8 November, 2006
1. Armed police officials escorting former Guatemalan Defence Minister, Angel Anibal Guevara, out of elevator
2. Medium of police vehicle with Guevara inside
3. Various of Guevara inside...
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Taiwanese president comments on relations with Central America
1. Wide of President of Taiwan, Chen Shui Bian during interview
2. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Chen Shui Bian, President of Taiwan:
"The map and mainstream of Taiwan society won't be changed by a sudden frustration in the course for...
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+4:3 Former chief of feared police unit on trial over deadly Spain embassy fire
The trial of a former police chief charged with the death of 37 people in a fire at the Spanish embassy in Guatemala City in 1980 began on Wednesday.
Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchu, whose father Vicente died in the fire, is a plaintiff...
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COLOMBIA: POLICE AND US BREAK MAJOR DRUG SMUGGLING OPERATION
Spanish/Nat
The Colombian Police and the U-S Drugs Enforcement Agency (DEA) announced on Tuesday that they had broken a major drug-smuggling operation.
Heroine and cocaine to the value of nearly four (m) million dollars per month has...
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Polls close in Presidential election, comment from EU observer
1. Pan right of people at voting station
2. Various of ballots being stamped (Spanish) "not used"
3. Mid of elections official separating ballots
4. Mid of officials counting ballots
5. Close-up of official counting ballots
6....
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Rescue efforts abandoned in towns worst hit by floods
1. Official speaking to people through loud-hailer
2. Residents carrying mattresses
3. People carrying furniture
4. Scene of mudslide
5. People carrying possessions
6. People looking at mudslide
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Manuel Diaz,...
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Political crisis amid calls for President's resignation, presser
15 May 2009
1. Wide of Guatemala's President Alvaro Colom
2. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Alvaro Colom, President of Guatemala:
"It is interesting that those asking for my resignation are the ones who lost the elections. The ones I beat, one...
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Mini-sub carrying cocaine seized off Pacific Coast
1. Various of US Coast Guards frigate arriving
2. Close up of the captured submarine
3. Wide of the frigate
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Byron Gutierrez Valdes, Guatemalan colonel:
"Thanks to the joint operations between the Guatemalan navy...
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GUATEMALA: SAN MARCOS: RECORD PRICES FOR COFFEE DOUBLE PROFITS
Spanish/Nat
Record prices for Guatemalan coffee have doubled profits this year but few believe the extra money will make a difference to the country's struggling economy.
The sudden hike in the trading price of coffee scooped Guatemala...
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GUATEMALA: HUNT IS ON FOR KILLER OF TWO TOURISTS
Natural Sound
Police have mounted a large-scale search for the killer of two foreign women tourists, shot to death in a lakeside town in Guatemala.
American Lucinda Bousquet and British Ann Ahern were shot in the head Sunday night at a...
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Central American Integration System, Latam leaders meet, Zoellick
1. Security nearby venue where Central American Integration System (SICA) summit is taking place
2. Various exterior shots of summit venue
3. Various of leaders during opening ceremony
4. Close shot of Panama President Ricardo...
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OIC Iraq Reax; FM on Jews & Australia
1. Various exteriors of venue for Organisation of the Islamic Conference
2. Various shots of attendants on escalators
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ayad Alawi, Head of Iraq governing council:
"We think the new resolution is really in favour...
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Six unidentified bodies found shot dead in cave near capital
1. Scene where bodies were discovered, police at entrance of cave
2. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Oscar Sanchez, Paramedic and firefighter:
"We have found, inside a cave, six dead people. They had all been shot by firearms. Among the victims...
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Police seize 500 grenades in raid on drug cartel camp
1. Guatemalan soldiers, with their faces covered by balaclavas, walking along tarmac
2. Various of solider unloading bags of confiscated weapons and ammunition from Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) helicopter
3. Close-up of confiscated...
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SYND 8 2 76 POLICE CONTROL FOOD DISTRIBUTION IN EARTHQUAKE AFTERMATH
1. various shots people queuing at wire fence (3)
2. various shots people preparing food & eating (6)
3. ms people go through gate for rations
4. ms people are stamped on the arm
5. ms food handed out
Film: Pos - Sound: Mag...
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Heads of state arrive for inauguration of president-elect Garcia
1. Colombian President Alvaro Uribe walking off plane
2. Uribe walking across tarmac past honour guard
3. Closer shot Uribe on tarmac
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Alvaro Uribe, President of Colombia:
"We have come to this sister nation full...
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GUATEMALA: SITUATION UPDATE ON MEXICAN UN WORKER FOUND MURDERED
Spanish/Nat
A leading human-rights advocate and journalist in Guatemala says the murder of a Mexican U-N worker is a symptom of dep-rooted corruption and violence in his country.
The tortured body of Lucina Cardenas Ramirez was found...
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USA: NAMES OF ALLEGED GUATEMALAN DEATH SQUAD MEMBERS RELEASED
Span/Eng/Nat
A human rights activist has released the names of alleged members of a Guatemalan death squad she believes is responsible for the death of popular Guatemalan Bishop, Juan Gerard in April this year.
The bishop was killed...
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CHINA: GRATITUDE TO GUATEMALA AND DOMINICAN REPUBLIC OVER TAIWAN
Mandarin/Nat
China expressed appreciation towards Guatemala and the Dominican Republic Tuesday for not demanding the discussion of Taiwan's application for admission into the United Nations this year.
The government in Beijing said it...