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Major quake kills dozens in Guatemala

Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, Sonia Perez-Diaz The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, November 7, 2012 - 5:32pm

SAN MARCOS, Guatemala — A 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the Pacific coast of Guatemala on Wednesday, killing at least 39 people as it ravaged a small state near the Mexican border, the country’s president said.

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Top of Utah Mormons to serve 'music mission' to Guatemala

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, July 20, 2012 - 5:24pm

OGDEN — Last spring, when 18-year-old Lauren Zabriskie was asked to take a musical mission of sorts to Guatemala, it took her all of about one second to say yes.

She and her father, Noel Zabriskie, and about 28 other Top of Utahns will travel to Guatemala next week to spend two weeks delivering LDS hymn books and Triple Combinations made up of the Book of Mormon, Pearl of Great Price and Doctrine and Covenants that have been freshly translated into the native language of Kekchi, the main dialect spoken in Guatemala and parts of Belize.

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Layton doctor leads medical mission to Guatemala

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 10:31pm

LAYTON — A group of doctors, nurses, medical students, dentists, dieticians and even a schoolteacher are headed to Guatemala this weekend to provide much-needed medical services to people there.

Dr. Robert L. Mellor, an ear, nose and throat specialist at Tanner Memorial Clinic and president of Utah Medical Outreach, has been traveling to the underserved country for the past 22 years.

This year, he and his group will travel about 10 hours by bus to a small clinic in a mountainous area northeast of Guatemala City.

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Relatives embrace former military officer Reyes Collin Gualip, partially covered, after he was sentenced at the end of a trial in Guatemala City, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011. The court sentenced three former special forces soldiers to 6,060 years in prison each for the massacre of more than 200 men, women and children, one of hundreds that occurred during Guatemala's 36-year civil war, which ended in 1996. Some 240,000 people, mostly Mayan Indians, vanished or died. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Human rights advocates applaud sentences in Guatemala massacre

Ken Ellingwood Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, August 4, 2011 - 9:55am

MEXICO CITY -- International human rights advocates Wednesday praised a court in Guatemala for sentencing four former soldiers to more than 6,000 years each in prison for a 1982 massacre of 201 civilians during the nation's civil war.

The massacre in the northern village of Dos Erres was one of the ugliest episodes of repression during Guatemala's 36-year civil war, during which an estimated 200,000 people were killed or disappeared, mostly in the countryside.

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Mormon missionary mauled by lions at Guatemala zoo

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 3:19pm

ESQUIPULAS, Guatemala. -- A 20-year-old Mormon missionary from Utah is in a Guatemalan hospital with serious arm and leg injuries after being mauled by two lions at a zoo.

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