Guatemala: Unearthing the Future
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Technology in Guatemala: An Overview()
February 2, 2007 In her series "Guatemala: Unearthing the Future" this past week, tech contributor Xeni Jardin examined how Guatemalans are using technology to deal with historic challenges. She talks about the potential and the realities of harnessing technology in Guatemala, where many people are living in poverty.
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Guatemala Project Builds Tech from the Ground Up()
February 1, 2007 Many of Guatemala's rural indigenous communities lack infrastructure basics such as clean drinking water, sanitation and electricity. A group of American eco-engineers is working with Mayan villages to change that.
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Guatemalan Archives May Help Locate Missing()
January 31, 2007 Thousands of people in Guatemala's capital city went missing during the bloody civil war. The discovery and investigation of a massive archive of police documents may reveal what happened to many of those people.
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Storm Victims' Remains Exhumed in Guatemala()
January 30, 2007 A little more than a year after Hurricane Stan devastated the Mayan village of Panabaj, a forensics group is working to exhume and identify the remains of victims buried in a mudslide caused by the storm.
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Group Works to Identify Remains in Guatemala()
January 29, 2007 An estimated 200,000 people were killed in Guatemala's decades-long civil war, and an additional 100,000 "disappeared." One group of forensic anthropologists is using technology to help the country come to terms with its past.
