| August 24, 2008 | - Planes crashed in Spain, Kyrgyzstan, and Guatemala.
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
The New York Times
Source 3:
The New York Times
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| February 24, 2007 | - Children at a circus performance in Colombia watched as an attacker shot and killed two clowns, and in Guatemala a dozen homes and two teenagers were swallowed up by a 330-foot-deep sinkhole.
| Source 1:
BBC News
Source 2:
New York Times
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| September 25, 2006 | - Security forces recaptured a Guatemalan jail that had been under prisoner control for more than a decade.
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
New York Times
Source 3:
Reuters
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| October 6, 2005 | - Hundreds of people in Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador were buried alive in mudslides caused by Hurricane Stan.
| Source:
Science Daily
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| July 31, 2003 | -
Guatemala's former dictator was readying a run for president.
| Source: Agence France-Presse
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| July 30, 2003 | - A Senate Finance Committee report revealed that the IRS had asked the SEC to investigate Enron in 1999, after it uncovered evidence that the company had bribed
Guatemalan officials.
| Source: Houston Chronicle
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| June 12, 2001 | - Three Guatemalan military officers were sentenced to 30 years in prison for crushing the head of a Roman Catholic bishop in 1998, a few days after he issued a report blaming the military for the deaths of some 200,000 people.
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| August 15, 2000 | - The Archdiocese of Guatemala issued a report on the abduction of children during the country's 36-year civil war; it found that most of the abductions were carried out by government security forces.
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