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SYND 16 6 78 BOMB ATTACK ON MILITARY POLICE VEHICLE
Seventeen Guatemalan military policemen were killed on Thursday (June 15) when a guerrilla bomb blew up the truck in which they were travelling near Guatemala City. The result was horrific, with rescuers finding mutilated bodies piled...
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GUATEMALA: PACAYA VOLCANO ERUPTS
Natural Sound
Nature put on a spectacular fireworks display in Guatemala, as an eruption of the Pacaya volcano sent molten lava and debris soaring into the air.
A series of small explosions at the volcano, 25 kilometres (15 miles)...
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Guatemala - Volcano Eruptions Diminish
Eruptions from volcano Pacaya south of Guatemala City, the Guatemalan
capital, that began spewing ash and lave earlier this week waned
on Friday (14/10). But the authorities are still concerned for the
safety of inhabitants of the...
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WRAP Runoff likely as polls open in presidential elec ADDS voter bite, observer
1. Various of people lining outside waiting to vote
2. Mid of man opening gate, people coming inside to vote
3. Man walking to voting table, handing in ID
6. Close of hands checking ID, pan to mid
7. Man handing dipping finger in ink
8....
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Arrests as protesters clash with police
1. Wide of car convoy carrying US President George W. Bush arriving at presidential palace
2. Pan from anti-Bush protesters pulling down barricade to riot police shooting tear gas moving forward
3. Protesters running away, pan to police...
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Armed man in jealous rage takes 42 hostage, later frees them
1. Emergency services at scene
2. Tilt up building
3. Media outside building
4. Ambulance at scene
5. Various emergency services at scene
6. Women being led away by emergency services
7. Ambulances at scene
8. Fire engines at scene
9....
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EL SALVADOR: POLICE UNCOVER 3 MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF COCAINE
San Salvador, El Salvador - 17 August 1997
1. Mid shot pan of cocaine haul
2. Close up sign, pull out to detainee
3. Cocaine
4. Close up heroin haul
5. Close up sign, pull out to detainee and heroin
6. Heroin
7. Wide shot truck and...
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GUATEMALA: GROWING CONCERN OVER SO CALLED "STREET JUSTICE"
Natural Sound NOTE TO EDITORS - THIS CONTAINS GRAPHIC VISION
There's growing international concern over so-called 'street justice' in Guatemala.
Increasing numbers of people are taking the law into their own hands -...
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GUATEMALA: EL CARACOL: PACAYA VOLCANO ERUPTS
Natural Sound
Residents in the towns of El Caracol and Patrocino were put on alert on Sunday, as Guatemala's most active volcano erupted.
The Pacaya Volcano, 25 kilometers (16 miles) south of Guatemala City, burst to life with a...
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Mount Pinatubo, Philippines, Goma, Zaire, El Caracol, Guatemala
Location: Mount Pinatubo, Philippines
Story No.: w090816 (G31089213)
Source: WTN
Date: 31 Aug 92
Location: Goma, Zaire
Story No.: w071879
Source: WTN
Date: 22 Jul 94
Location: El Caracol, Guatemala
Story...
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GUATEMALA: TOTONICAPAN: RELIGIOUS FEAST OF SAN FRANCISCO CELEBRATED
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Pagan traditions have mixed with Christian fervour during the feast of San Francisco in the northern Guatemalan town of Totonicapan.
The annual feast dates back to the period of the Spanish conquest.
It's a colourful...
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Vice Pres of Taiwan arrives for visit
1. Taiwan's Vice President Annete Hsiu-lien Lu disembarking from plane, greeting officials
2. Wide shot of helicopter on helipad
3. Lu and Guatemala President Oscar Perdomo getting out of helicopter
Taiwan's vice president, arrived in...
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Putin arrives at IOC meeting to back Russian bid for winter games
1. Pull out to wide of Russian plane landing at Guatemala city airport, volcano in the background
2. Russian plane taxiing on the tarmac
3. Journalists awaiting arrival
4. Russian President Valdimir Putin coming down stairs of plane
5....
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Giant sinkhole swallows several homes, kills two teenagers
1. Various aerials of sinkhole
A 330-foot-deep sinkhole in the capital of Guatemala killed two teenage siblings when it swallowed about a dozen homes early on Friday and forced the evacuation of nearly 1,000 people in a crowded city...
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A volcano eruption in Guatemala has killed a reporter and left three children missing. A spokesman for the national disaster agency says television reporter Anibal Archila was hit by a shower of rocks spewing from the Pacaya volcano that overlooks Guatemala City.
HEADLINE: Raw Video: Deadly volcano blast in Guatemala
CAPTION: A volcano eruption in Guatemala has killed a reporter and left three children missing. A spokesman for the national disaster agency says television reporter Anibal Archila...
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SYND 09/3/70 US DIPLOMAT HOLLY AFTER RELEASE BY KIDNAPPERS - TWO GUERRILLAS RELEASED IN EXCHANGE TALK TO PRESS
A hostage exchange takes place to secure the release of the US diplomat Sean Holly in Guatemala. Two alleged guerilla fighters, Vidalin and Jose Monzon, are swapped for his release.
1. WS of Holly meeting the press in the garden of the...
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GUATEMALA: EARTHQUAKE: AFTERMATH
Natural Sound
A major earthquake has rocked Central America, killing at least 122 people across the region.
El Salvador was the worst hit with at least 120 people killed and about 1-thousand-200 people believed to be missing in the...
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GUATEMALA: CARGO PLANE CRASH
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A cargo plane crashed at Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City on Friday, destroying several houses.
Six people on the ground are reported to have been killed, including two children and a newborn baby.
The plane's...
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Search for survivors after massive quake kills more than 40
1. Wide of road damaged when quake struck
2. Mid of machinery trying to dig out truck buried in a sand mine after quake struck
3. Pan to machinery being used to dig out truck
4. Rescue workers waiting for truck to be dug out
5. Ground...
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Prison riot quelled after gunmen slay suspects in deaths of politicians
Guatemala City - 26 February 2007
1. Various of newspapers photos showing bodies in prison cells where police officers were killed
2. Headline reading: (Spanish) "Four policemen are executed in jail"
3. Newspaper showing mugshots of four...
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Latest after floods and landslides kill at least 180 across region
1. Various of aid being loaded onto helicopter to be transported to areas worst affected by storm
2. Bags of aid being arranged inside helicopter
3. Wide of aid on ground near helicopter
4. Helicopter taking off
5. Aerial of...
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Congressman negotiating switch to party of president-elect is shot dead
1. Close-up of crime scene tape with murder site in background
2. Mid of body on the ground behind a car
3. Mid of officials examining bullet-riddled car
4. Wide of journalists and bystanders behind crime tape
5. Mid of official...
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SYND 3 7 74 INAUGURATION OF NEW PRESIDENT OF GUATEMALA
Inauguration of new President of Guatemala, General Kjell Laugerud Garcia.
1. gv parliament
2. ms Carlos Arana Osorio gives up office sash
3. ms bishop and dignitaries
4. ms Laugerud accepts office sash
5. various top shots of tanks...
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Police catch former President Portillo after US indictment
1. Wide of helicopter landing
2. Mid of former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo climbing out of the helicopter under the supervision of United Nations personnel and police
3. Various of anti-riot police coming out of vans outside...