GUATEMALA / ARGENTINA : 10 July UPDATE Folk Singer Cabral Murdered In Guat.City.

                                     LATIMES/ More Details
Famous Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral, 74, was ambushed in the early morning while going to the airport in Guatemala City.
Officials now speculate that a concert promoter in the same vehicle was the target of the well orchestrated attack.
Cabral's vehicle was hit by a number of rifle bullets and was accompanied by another carrying bodyguards.
He was scheduled to give a concert in Nicaragua.
Cabral is best known for the song "No Soy de Aqui ni Alla"/I'm Not From Here or There...sung in many languages.

GUATEMALA: Vigilante Violence Rising; Teen Beaten And Burned by Mob.

LAHT/     Fourteen people have died from vigilante justice there so far this year, while 30 others survived with injuries. The latest to suffer from the mob was an 18-year-old man beaten and burned to death in Guat City because neighbors suspected him of shooting an El Incienso vecino. More than 300 lynchings have occurred in Guatemala since 1996. Bus shootings and fire bombings, because of extortion attempts, are common. Police seem unable to cope with the increasing violence.

GUATAMALA: Deep, Mysterious Sinkhole Intrigues Geologists.

AP/ MIAMI HERALD/     A foreboding sinkhole in a quiet Guatemala City neighborhood that appears to descend into the netherworld is in reality 66 feet across and nearly 100 feet deep. It scares neighbors but is exciting geologists. The almost perfectly round sinkhole swallowed an entire intersection during a tropical storm Agatha. It ate a clothing factory about three miles (two kilometers) from the site of a similar sinkhole three years ago but no factory workers died.

GUATEMALA: 2ND UPDATE: "Agatha's" Agony Continues.

LAHT/ NEW LINK/3 Junio/    Rescue crews are still digging out bodies from mudslides after Tropical Storm Agatha ravaged Central America, killing at least 184 with 90 missing, 87 injured and nearly 200,000 evacuees. Agatha deposited more than 3 feet of rain in Guatemala's mountainous west and in El Salvador, threatening the coffee crops in both nations. The storm may have caused wider material damage in Guatemala than Hurricane Mitch did in 1998, said a Red Cross official.

GUATEMALA: Tropical Storm Agatha Kills At Least 18.

BLOOMBERG/ With details from AP/  
Heavy rains and ensuing mudslides from the season's first tropical storm, Agatha, has killed 18 so far in Central America and southern Mexico. In Guatemala, 69,000 people in  have been evacuated and rivers in its south were flooding or close to it. Guatemala City reported 4.3 inches (10.8 centimeters) of rain had fallen in 12 hours, the most since 1949. El Salvador declared the highest level “red alert," with at least 140 landslides reported.