The relationship between Guatemala and Mexico has not been very strong in resent years. This article reports that the relationship between the bordering counties to be improving. The article describes the meeting between Mexico's President Felipe Calderón and Guatemala President Álvaro Colom. During the meeting the two presidents discuss their countries relationships and how they are uniting to provide better lives for their people.

This article provides actual text messages sent to Guatemalan Human Rights activists that threaten lives of members and their families. Numerous texts were sent to the Protection Unit for Human Rights Defenders in Guatemala, or UDEFEGUA. The text talk about Army files and accuses the activists as being guerrillas. The organization demands that these acts be dealt with by the government and has made all threatening text messages public.

Guatemala has implemented a new arms and ammunition law. The law makes it much harder for citizens to own a gun. There is even a training test that the user must compete before they are able to purchase the gun. The law aims to make it harder for criminals to obtain weapons and give classification of who owns guns in Guatemala. The law also puts a cap on the amount of ammunition one is allowed to buy for their firearm. This law will hopefully lower the number of guns on the street and lower crime in Guatemala.

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This article gives day by day updates on what has happened in the Mexico's recent drug war.

Throughout the developing world, the post-Cold War era has seen the emergence of increasingly powerful and violent criminal organizations, often referred to as "third-generation gangs." These groups have exploited the major international trends of the past 20 years -- including economic and financial integration, innovations in communication technology, the prevalence of weak and failed states, and a thriving global arms trade -- to seize control over a myriad of illicit commercial networks. They now use violence and corruption to undermine the governments that oppose them.

This article looks at the different trends of alcohol consumption in Latin America.

AIDS among men throws Mexico for a loop.

Mexico City bus system promotes gender inequality,

Mexico, the second most populous country in Latin America, has a critical need for contraception, but is unable to meet the demand due to social and economic factors. Access and education must be improved so that women may live in dignity—and equality with men.

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U.N. secretary-general Ban Ki-moon offered humanitarian aid Tuesday to hundreds of people affected by torrential rains that flooded homes and killed at least two people in a Mexico City suburb. Ban, w | Comcast.net.

Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom declared "a state of public calamity" late Tuesday to help mobilize funds and resources to confront a food shortage that will affect thousands of families.