5 million pesos does not seem like much to clean up pollution and trash in the river, but it's better than nothing. The Usumacinta drains an enormous area of Guatemala and Mexico, getting contamination from trash and agricultural chemicals along the way.
Invertirán más de 5 mdp al Cañón del Usumacinta
The Zetas, Mexican ex-military drug traffickers, are training members of the Salvadoran gangs to work in drug transshipments through northern Guatemala. The training took place in Laguna del Tigre, the biosphere reserve in the Peten.
elsalvador.com :.: Los Zetas entrenaron a doce MS salvadoreños
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Friend ALonso Mendez just sent a dispatch from Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, where in the last 20 days an enormous "algae bloom" (actuallu mats of cyanobacteria) has covered much of the lake. It is a problem that has been coming for a long time, due to human sewage problems and neglect and corruption among the officials charged with improving the treatment plants.
Guatemala News | Guatemalas Lake Atitlan disaster, the explanation
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