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The first official Oxxo store was opened in 1979 in Guadalupe, Nuevo León. Oxxo stores then spread to Chihuahua, Hermosillo, and Nuevo Laredo. Throughout the eighties, Oxxo gained fame in the cities where it was established. In 1998, the 1,000th store was opened. On July 6, 2010, the opening of the 9,000th store, in Oaxaca, was announced. [4]
Transmetro is a bus rapid transit system in Guatemala City, Guatemala. The first line opened on 3 February 2007. The fleet consists of modern Volvo buses made by Ciferal in Brazil. The buses have fixed stops and partly run on dedicated lanes, avoiding other traffic. Both stops and vehicles are guarded by municipal police.
Freight transport was the main business of Ferrovías Guatemala. Guatemala rail map of 1925. Construction of the first railway in Guatemala commenced in 1878 [1] and the first section began operation in 1880, connecting Puerto San José and Escuintla, [1] [2] being extended to Guatemala City in 1884.
The Northern Railroad of Guatemala was a railway system that ran from Guatemala City to Puerto Barrios, the main port of Guatemala, between 1896 and 1968.The American United Fruit Company had the monopoly of the railway system through its affiliate, International Railways of Central America (IRCA), along with the docks at Puerto Barrios, the banana plantations in Izabal and the cargo and ...
Guatemala, [a] officially the Republic of Guatemala, [b] is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically bordered to the south by the Pacific Ocean and to the northeast by the Gulf of Honduras.
"Pacific demonstration" in Guatemala City, on April 25, 2015, after the first corruption allegations against the Pérez Molina Administration.. The La Línea corruption case began in Guatemala on April 16, 2015 when the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Spanish: Comisión Internacional Contra la Impunidad en Guatemala, CICIG) and State prosecutors accused a number of ...
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The King is a 2019 epic historical drama film directed by David Michôd, based on several plays from William Shakespeare's Henriad. [3] [4] [5] The screenplay was written by Michôd and Joel Edgerton, who both produced the film with Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, and Liz Watts.