President Oscar Berger

President Oscar Berger

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This is the week for taking action on allowing Guatemala adoptions to continue. Please read the post below for more information, but you can start by signing this online petition . Keep updated on this through AdoptionBlogs. Also, here are two people who have blogs about their Guatemala Adoption process. Bringing Gabriel Home and Our Little Pea. CNN has also published an online article about the disaster waiting to happen in Guatemala if these current laws are passed. The article is here for you to read online , but I have posted it below for you to read here as well. ANTIGUA, Guatemala (CNN) ... Read Full Story
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My wife and I have been in the process of adopting a little girl from Guatemala. Most of the orphans in Guatemala live in the streets, and get their food and clothing from city dumps. There are currently about 5000 such children who were slated to be adopted between now and December 31, 2007. But this week, the US Department of State has encouraged the Guatemalan congress to pass the Ortega Law which would effectively put an end to all adoptions from Guatemala. This bill, as it now stands, has no funding plan, no child care plan for the children currently in the process ... Read Full Story
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The Joint Council on International Children’s Services has posted copies of the letters sent by the U.S. Congress to Guatemalan President Oscar Berger and to UNICEF. If you participated in lobbying your congressmen to sign the letters, thank you. The announcement (and link) from JCICS are below. Dear Colleagues, Joint Council has posted copies online of the two Congressional letters which were submitted to the President of Guatemala and to UNICEF earlier this week. Over 200 Members of Congress signed each letter! To download a copy of the letters from the U.S. Congress, please visit our Guatemala 5000 page at http://www.jcics.org/Guatemala5000.htm#News . The Guatemala ... Read Full Story
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They were searching hard for guatemala economy in a shop but were told it is essential that you are aware of any ammendments which may cause changes, very noticable importance if it is higher priced guatemala economy. Read Full Story
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GUATEMALA CITY – The disgraced former head of Guatemala’s PNC national police led a criminal gang that was in the business of ripping off drug traffickers, Attorney General Amilcar Velasquez said. He told a press conference that investigations ...  
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GUATEMALA CITY, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Guatemalan president Alvaro Colom is pushing for a fiscal reform package to boost dwindling finances needed to fight high crime and poverty, but stiff opposition threatens to kill the plan. Colom, a center-leftist ...  
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IPS recently reported that 1,000 troops would be sent to the province of Quiché in Guatemala to fight crime. The Amnesty International Report 2009 on Guatemala says that "Members of the security forces, either on or off duty, were believed to be ...  
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ESQUIPULAS, Guatemala, NOV. 12, 2009 ( Zenit.org ).- A Franciscan priest was found murdered in a hotel room in Guatemala this week; he had been missing for several days. Police reported that the Guatemalan priest, Father Miguel Ángel Hernández, 45 ...  
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CALGARY, Nov. 13, 2009 (Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) -- In the chaos of a 37-year civil war, traditional weaving for women of the Maya culture had become a lost art. A group of local women from Taltimiche, in Comitancillo, Guatemala, hoped to change ...  
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