The map tells a story — Children Charity Nothing shows the trail of disaster more clearly than the map of SOS Villages. Do you remember the 1976 Earthquake in Guatemala, the Mexico City Earthquake ... The largest mass conversion in history Ronald Reagan's administration stepped up support for the savage military regimes of El Salvador and Guatemala, and the cross-border Contra terror campaign ... Firestone Ventures Completes Phase One Exploration Program for Zinc-Lead in Guatemala A belt of Permian to Cretaceous carbonate rocks extending over 200 km across western and central Guatemala hosts numerous zinc occurrences and historic small-scale zinc oxide and sulphide mines. The district is virtually unexplored using modern exploration methods and its exploration and economic potential is considered excellent. On a global scale, a comparison of style and geological setting shows striking similarities of the zinc-lead district in Guatemala to economically significant zinc districts in Yemen, Iran and China. Independent consultants Watts, Griffis and McOuat Limited state that it is "very likely" that additional non-sulphide zinc will be found through on-go... Clueless as usual, how scary for Latin America Guatemala and the region are under constant massive influence of US Foreign Policy. A very good example is the "War on Drugs", Merida Plan in Mexico, Plan Colombia, Drug gangs move to Guatemala and other South American countries, who do not receive proportional funds and we suffer the deadly consequences of a strategy that is so flawed that even a first grader could have foretold the outcome.   In the past we have lived through the consequences of their mistakes, we will suffer from it in the future. The US Foreign Policy response to the Honduras coup, is just the latest case in our region, of unfortunate, inappropriate, untimely, misinformed meddling with a countries... Food running out in drought-ravaged Guatemala ... the US Neighboring countries (see this excellent map from ReliefWeb) have faced similar issues, but Guatemala has the most dire shortage in the region. ... Weather Bloggers Then this morning I got an email from blog reader Luis who said: "Here, in Guatemala, I think we are not setting new low records, but it's really cold. ... The social networking phenomenon that is taking over the world country by country Vincenzo Cosenza, the man behind Vincos Blog, focusing on the topics of social networking, social media and photography, has published a World Map of Social Networks. The interactive map uses analyzed data from Google Trends for Websites to visually depict the most popular social networks by country.The map was first published in June 2009, when Facebook had more than 200 million users and was the most popular network in most places in Europe, Canada, Australia and the United States. The updated map shows Facebook's continuing trend of global domination, where the social network is the market leader in 100 out of 127 countries analyzed.Non-English speaking parts of the w...

East meets west as 1602 Chinese map goes on show in the US The map also includes several places in Central and South American, including "Wa-ti-ma-la" (Guatemala), "Yu-ho-t'ang" (Yucatan) and "Chih-Li" (Chile).Ricci's map, which measures 3.6 by 1.5 meters and is printed on six rolls of delicate rice paper, has become something of a holy grail for map experts, earning the nickname the "Impossible Black Tulip of Cartography" because its discovery proved so elusive.The Ricci map, one of only two to survive in good condition, will be displayed alongside another of the world's rarest maps, the Waldseemuller world map, bought by the library for $10m in 2003.For those who cannot make the pilgrimage to Washington, there will still be th...

Argentina Quake Reported In Wake of Haiti Devastation Also, even more interestingly, a series of quakes after this one occurred in Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico days before Haiti. ...