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Guatemalans (Spanish: guatemaltecos or less commonly guatemalenses) are people connected to the country of Guatemala. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural.
Pregnant with her tenth child, Tomás, 37, had to leave her children with family members and spend a night away from home for the first time to undergo DNA tests in the capital that allowed ...
Vulnerable youths who are at-risk for joining a gang are males between the ages of living in marginalized urban areas and have limited access to education. [6] A program called Open Schools combats forces that push youth into dangerous situations and works to overcome barriers that Guatemalan youth face. [7]
His family is Guatemalan American. Bobby is both confident that he will become a parent one day and also certain that he won’t bring his own biological kids into the world.
Guatemalan child in Guatemala City celebrating Independence Day. The ethnic population in the Kingdom of Guatemala, at the time of Independence, amounted to nearly 600,000 Indians, 300,000 Castas (mostly Mestizos and a lesser number of Mulattos, Zambos, and Pardos), and 45,000 Criollos or Spaniards, with a very small number of English traders. [28]
More than 10,000 children have been deported from the U.S. and Mexico back to Guatemala. Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service has opened a new office in Guatemala City to help them.
Together with other non-agricultural products, they contribute towards 75 percent of export earnings. [6] The agricultural sector employs about 39 percent of the national workforce, resulting in suppressed wages and low productivity. [7] This provides some explanation for the rural-urban dichotomy in living standards.
With more than half the population of Guatemalans living below the poverty line, [21] it is hard for children going to school, especially indigenous children, to afford the rising cost of uniforms, books, supplies and transportation — none of which are supplied by the government. [19]