Guatemala

Guatemala: Teachers demand progress on the bargaining agreement

Published on: April 10, 2025
10:20

Guatemala City, April 10 (Prensa Latina) The Education Workers Union will protest in the streets of Guatemala to demand progress on signing the Collective Agreement on Working Conditions, a salary increase, and a specific bonus.

Scholarships for Our Future program opens in Guatemala

Published on: April 1, 2025
09:45

Guatemala City, Apr 1 (Prensa Latina) The first official call for the "Scholarships for Our Future" program will open in Guatemala until May 31, with which thousands of young people will be able to transform their lives.

Guatemalan health workers to protest for higher salaries

Published on: March 31, 2025
09:53

Guatemala City, Mar 31 (Prensa Latina) Guatemalan health workers will begin protests today at several points in Guatemala for salary improvements, despite that the day before the Ministry left the door open to dialogue.

President of Guatemala to launch National Scholarship Fund

Published on: March 27, 2025
08:49

Guatemala City, Mar 27 (Prensa Latina) The President of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, will officially launch today the Nuestro Futuro National Scholarship Fund, focused on benefiting students with university careers locally and internationally.

45 works of Cuba’s Apostle José Martí are exhibited in Guatemala

Published on: March 19, 2025
15:43

Guatemala City, Mar 19 (Prensa Latina) An exhibition of 45 works of the Apostle of Cuban Independence, José Martí, is on display at the César Brañas Library, of the extension department of the San Carlos University of Guatemala.

Guatemalan activist expresses solidarity with Cuba over US hostility

Published on: March 12, 2025
08:50

Guatemala City, Mar 12 (Prensa Latina) Guatemalan anthropologist Sandra Xinico expressed solidarity before the hostile policy of the United States Government that currently causes so much damage to Cuba and urged the Caribbean people to maintain its strength.

Arevalo to lead new dialogue with indigenous authorities in Guatemala

Published on: March 6, 2025
10:33

Guatemala City, Mar 6 (Prensa Latina) The president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, will lead today a new dialogue with indigenous and ancestral authorities of the country in search of the joint construction of solutions to the problems of these territories.

Guatemala to add 150,000 people literate by 2025

Published on: February 18, 2025
09:54

Guatemala City, Feb 18 (Prensa Latina) Faced with the challenge of 1,907,401 persons who do not know how to read or write, Guatemala plans to train 150,000 through the National Literacy Committee (Conalfa) during 2025.

Guatemala: 40 dead in bus crash on Guatemala bridge

Published on: February 10, 2025
12:38

Guatemala City, Feb 10 (Prensa Latina) Guatemala's Emergency Corps today confirmed 40 dead and four injured when a bus fell into a sewage river under the Belice Bridge, zone 5 of this capital.

Cuba’s Conference for Balance of the World highlighted in Guatemala

Published on: February 8, 2025
00:16

Guatemala, Feb 8 (Prensa Latina) A column in the newspaper La Hora de Guatemala, published on Friday, provided details about the 6th International Conference for the Balance of the World, held January 28 to 31 in Cuba.

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