Tag: Guatemala
This infographic compares the average heights of men and women across the globe, ranking the top 10 tallest and bottom 10 shortest countries. Explore how genetics, nutrition, and socioeconomic factors shape these differences—and which nations have seen the most dramatic changes over time. From towering averages in Northern Europe to shorter statures in parts of Asia and Africa, discover the trends defining human height worldwide.
Jimmy Morales, the television comedian who was elected the president of Guatemala, was seriously not funny when he launched a campaign against the country’s urban and suburban slum youth. Morales dubbed his program «Operation Condor»…
The Obama administration is waging a tough fight against progressive presidents of Latin America. The mission of the US embassies in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina is to make the unaccommodating leaders of these countries step down before their terms end
On 8 July 2015, in a pervasively ignored but historically very important news event (briefly mentioned by the BBC), the only trial ever in which a former head of state was convicted in his own country for genocide — in the long court case of Ronald Reagan’s friend Guatemalan General Rios Montt — finally petered out via a declaration by a Guatemalan court, alleging that Montt’s 10 May 2013 Guatemalan conviction and 80-year prison sentence (never served) for genocide, must now simply be abandoned, because Montt is supposedly “mentally incompetent to stand trial»…