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The move to Guatemala was suggested by Juan Funes, head of the Guatemalan Venereal Disease Control Department. [14] The experiments were funded by a grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to the Pan American Sanitary Bureau; multiple Guatemalan government ministries also got involved. [6]
YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — The Latest on two Guatemalan children who died while in U.S. government custody (all times local):
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.
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 ...
[5]: 6 However, starting in 1999, the health care system was improved with increased government spending and aid. [5]: 6 Although this was a drastic improvement from the times of war, the system was still insufficient and did not come close to meeting all of the needs of the Guatemalan people.
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]
Few Guatemalan children have arrived in the U.S. through a program aimed to reunite them with parents in the U.S., a report by Refugees International found.
Guatemala has a population of 17,153,288 (July 2020 est). [6] In 1900, Guatemala had a population of 885,000. [7] Guatemala had the fastest population growth in the Western Hemisphere during 20th century. Approximately half of the Guatemalan population lives in poverty and 13.7% of them live in extreme poverty. Guatemala is heavily centralized.