Eighteen-year-old Juan Gonzalez was dying alone in a hospital, thousand of miles from his Guatemalan home. He was separated from the family he had traveled to the United States to help support.

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Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom has dismissed an allegation that he was behind the death of a lawyer who left a video blaming the president if anything happened to him. The lawyer, Rodrigo Rosenberg, was shot and killed Sunday while riding a bicycle in Guatemala City.

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The photographs are disturbing, Mayans young and old covered in blisters and welts. Anti-mining activists say the rashes result from water polluted by a giant open-pit gold mine located in the Western Highlands of Guatemala.

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Fifteen people whose bodies were found in the charred shell of a bus in eastern Guatemala on Sunday had been shot first, investigators have said. Police believe the fire was set deliberately and that the deaths were drug-related, a spokesman said.

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Mexico cracking down on its own legal system which has been victimizing illegals.

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Six family members were indicted for enslaving Mexican and Guatemalan immigrants and forcing them to perform farm labor

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He was gunned down outside his home by masked men carrying high calibre weapons as he was leaving for work at 5.45 on the morning of Sunday, 23 September.

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Remains of the ancient Maya culture, mysteriously destroyed at the height of its reign in the ninth century, have been hidden in the rainforests of Central America for more than 1,000 years.

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