The Guatemalan government had to fight the pressure because although U. S. had recognized, in words, that Guatemala had the right to conduct their own politics and business, U. S. representatives also claimed that they had to interfere because UFCo was their company that had brought in a lot of profit and harming the interests of that company was harming the U. S. economy.

The Eisenhower administration at the time in the U. S. were not happy about the Arbenz government, they considered Arbenz to be too close to Communism ; there have been reports that Arbenz ’ s wife was a Communist and part of the Communist Party in Guatemala.

Many groups of Guatemalan exiles were armed and trained by the CIA, and commanded by Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas they invaded Guatemala on June 18, 1954.

The guerrillas then concentrated their attacks in Guatemala City, where they assassinated many leading figures, including U. S. Ambassador John Gordon Mein in 1968.

In Guatemala, Peru, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia, plantain leaves are usually used to wrap tamales before and while cooking, and they can be used to wrap any kind of seasoned meat while cooking to keep the flavor in.

Traditional marimba bands are especially popular in Guatemala where they are the national symbol of culture, but are also strongly established in southern Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, as well as among Afro-Ecuadorians and Afro-Colombians.

According to estimates of the Asociación de Cardamomeros de Guatemala ( Cardegua ) the harvest of 2012 will reach to about 29 000 metric tons, 12 percent more than in 2011 when they were 26 000 metric tons.

Because of his status, most of his family members were forced to flee into Honduras, Guatemala, and the United States, it is uncertain where the remaining Somozas live given the fact that they changed their names to protect their own lives.

When they had trouble with production, the plant hired skilled labor from Guatemala.

Instead they created a program called the Sustainable Coffee Program ; the first program was launched in Guatemala and in 2006 they started programs in Colombia and Brazil where they are " directly involved with coffee producing communities by providing direct financial assistance for technical training to improve the quantity and quality of coffee produced and assist farmers in getting their coffee to market at the best time and for the best price.

This troubled Costa Ricans ; they feared Rafael Carrera would intervene in their affairs, specially after Guatemala broke ties with them.

In 2009, the Department of Homeland Security estimated that there were two hundred thousand ( 200, 000 ) Korean " unauthorized immigrants "; they are the sixth largest nationality ( tied with Indians ) of illegal immigrants behind Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and the Philippines.

K ' iche ' lay in a highland mountain valley of Guatemala, and during this time they were also found in parts of El Salvador.

In Guatemala, the dance recounts the early events of the conquest, centering on the confrontation between both Tecún Umán and Pedro de Alvarado, which in turn serves as a symbol for the much larger conflict in which they were involved.

Although the viceroy's attempts were not 100 % effective, they were effective enough that Mexico City merchants lost control of the Pacific trade, which fell under the control of contrabandists operating from the smaller ports in Guatemala and Nicaragua.

* cannot access what property they have ( Colombia, Guatemala, South Africa and Sudan );

In Guatemala, they are called " autohotels "; in Chile and Mexico, " hoteles de paso "; in the Dominican Republic, " cabañas ", " moteles " or " estaderos "); in Argentina and Uruguay, " albergues transitorios "; in Brazil, Colombia and Puerto Rico, they are simply called " motels " ( the word is exclusively used for love hotels ).

During spring and summer, they move, mainly through Arizona and New Mexico and northern Mexico, to winter in southwestern Mexico as well as in Guatemala and Belize.

Beginning in July 2008, they played the first of several short tours in Guatemala featuring shows in Guatemala City, Panajachel, Huehuetenango, among other cities.

Special trips are also arranged to popular festivals every year, including a Mardi Gras trip to New Orleans, the Oregon Country Fair and Burning Man, where they also operate a shuttle bus from the event into nearby Gerlach and Empire, NV. International trips have included Mexico ( including the Yucatán peninsula and Baja ), Guatemala and Belize.

The political subordinations of the country and the nation were achieved with the close co-operation of the Guatemalan Army and the civil police forces with their counterpart US military and civil police forces ; jointly, they maintained national law and order, which secured the corporate, financial interests of US businesses in Guatemala.

During Survivor: Samoa, Russell Hantz is credited by many as the first player to find the idol without a clue, though technically Gary Hogeboom of Survivor: Guatemala found the first hidden immunity idol without a clue ; between Survivor: Samoa and Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains, Hantz would go on to locate six idols with and without help of a clue.

Wisner sent two teams of document analysts who gathered 150, 000 documents with the help of the Guatemalan Army and the junta of Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, whom the U. S. installed as President of Guatemala.

To publicize work done by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, and the World Food Programme to help reduce poverty and make agriculture more productive, Ambassador Vasquez accompanied journalists on media tours to Mali in December, 2006 and to Guatemala and Honduras in May, 2007.

He returned to Guatemala to help in the reconstructive efforts of the new post-Ubíco government, especially in the areas of social security and drafting of a new Constitution.

The PARLACEN origins date back to the Contadora Group, a project of the 1980s that sought to help resolve the civil wars in El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua.

We must convince the Latin Americans that our way of life is superior to that of the Communists .” The New York Times further explained that “ Castillo Armas had the moral support of the United States ; the Árbenz régime had the support of the Soviet Union .” The New Republic magazine said that “ it was just our luck that Castillo Armas did come by some second-hand lethal weapons, from Heaven knows where .” Newsweek magazine said that “ the United States, aside from whatever gumshoe work the Central Intelligence Agency may or may not have been busy with, had kept hands strictly off ”; that the Eisenhower Administration could have hastened the overthrowing of President Árbenz, “ overnight, if necessary: by halting coffee purchases, shutting off oil and gasoline from Guatemala, or, as a last resort, by promoting a border incident, and sending Marines to help the Hondurans ; and that, instead, the US followed the letter of the law ”, because President Árbenz was overthrown “ in the best possible way: by the Guatemalans .”

Human Rights First is working with local human rights activists in Colombia, Cuba, Egypt, Guatemala, Iran and Thailand, the organization ’ s focus countries, to help reinforce their advocacy efforts.

Organisations supported include ones that help child labourers in Guatemala, olive farmers in the Palestinian territories and factory workers in China.

He has collaborated in several programs that help to local communities, specially those of the rural, poor and vulnerable areas of Guatemala ; sending the assistance to the victims of Hurricane Mitch ( 1998 ), with the coordination with the International Community.

The prize was conferred for the organization's “ dedicated work to help street children in Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico " and “ for the courageous defence of the rights of these children " and was awarded by " Andree Ruffo and Pierre Dionne, the President and Director General respectively ".

She comes out of the painting to help a descendant, Liz Dutton, find her missing father, an archaeologist who has vanished in Guatemala.

ESF volunteers work tirelessly to help underprivileged people around the world in refugee camps throughout South East Asia, Haiti and Guatemala.

Sick with tuberculosis and beleaguered by the continued and overwhelming lack of support for his ideas in Guatemala, Townsend traveled back to the United States in 1932 and sought the help of L. L. Legters, the field secretary of the Pioneer Mission Agency and a trusted friend.

Maya peoples | Maya alcaldes, holding their staff of office | staffs of office, from Upper Guatemala circa 1891.

Pan American Health Organization staff were on standby in Belize, Guatemala and Honduras and were ready to respond to any post-storm disease outbreaks.

, specialists from the following countries were staff members of the Office: Austria, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Finland, Germany, Guatemala, Japan, India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Philippines, Russian Federation, Romania, Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.

Although amaranth was cultivated on a large scale in ancient Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru, nowadays it is only cultivated on a small scale there, along with India, China, Nepal, and other tropical countries ; thus, there is potential for further cultivation in those countries, as well as in the U. S. In a 1977 article in Science, amaranth was described as " the crop of the future.

Guatemala City's population has experienced drastic growth since the 1970s with the influx of indigenous migrants from the outlying departments as well as a large influx of foreign groups.

In February 2007, a very large, deep circular hole with vertical walls opened in a poor neighborhood in northeast Guatemala city, killing three people.

Guatemala has a longstanding claim to a large portion of Belize ; the territorial dispute caused problems with the United Kingdom and later with Belize following its 1981 independence from the UK.

Thus, it is impossible for the dissolution of carbonate rock to have formed the large vertical holes that swallowed up parts of Guatemala City in 2007 and 2010.

The large holes that swallowed up parts of Guatemala City in 2007 and 2010 are a spectacular example of " piping pseudokarst ", created by the collapse of large cavities that had developed in the weak, crumbly Quaternary volcanic deposits underlying the city.

In Guatemala, Holy Week is celebrated with large processions with images.

Coba must have maintained close contacts with the large city states of Guatemala and the south of Campeche like Tikal, Dzibanché or Calakmul.

The clerical and aristocratic forces staged a strong anti-liberal building block taking advantage of the fanaticism and discontent that permeated large sections of the population, especially in the state of Guatemala.

Stratford evidently had ties to a large commercial plantation in La Democracia, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.

The large majority of K ' iche ' people live in the highlands of Guatemala, notably in the departments of El Quiché, Totonicapán and Quetzaltenango.

The largest populations of contemporary Maya inhabit Guatemala, Belize, and the western portions of Honduras and El Salvador, as well as large segments of population within the Mexican states of Yucatán, Campeche, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, and Chiapas.

The Middle kingdoms of India had already the largest economy of the ancient and medieval world, the Napata / Meroitic kingdom extended over the current Sudan and Ethiopia, the Olmecs controlled central Mexico and Guatemala, and the pre-Incan Chavín people managed large areas of northern Peru.

However, even in countries where large populations of indigenous people remain or the indigenous peoples have mixed ( mestizo ) considerably with European settlers, such as Bolivia, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Ecuador, marginalisation still exists.

Whilst the government made some effort to improve campesino peasants ' civil rights, rural conditions in Guatemala could not be improved without large scale agrarian reform, proposed as mediated and fairly compensated land redistribution.

Strongly supported by the Church, Carrera became de facto ruler on much of Guatemala and led a large uprising of Indians in eastern and southern Guatemala.

The Gulf or Bay of Honduras is a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea, indenting the coasts of Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras.

Santa María Volcano is a large active volcano in the Western Highlands of Guatemala, close to the city of Quetzaltenango.

Volcán Atitlán is a large, conical, active stratovolcano adjacent to the caldera of Lake Atitlán in the Highlands of Guatemala.

Mayan art from Mexico, Guatemala and Belize is especially significant and contains a large number of very important works.

The volcano is within 5 to 10 kilometres of the city of Antigua Guatemala and several other large towns situated on its northern apron.

San Francisco La Unión is a municipality in the Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala, known for its large market.