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United Nations Radio. United Nations Radio was created on 13 February 1946. In 2017, United Nations Radio and the UN News Centre merged to form UN News, producing daily news and multimedia content in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Swahili, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Hindi. In its new iteration, UN News Audio continues to produce daily ...
Marta Yolanda Díaz-Durán. Marta Yolanda Díaz-Durán Alvarado (born 1968) is a Guatemalan entrepreneur, journalist, and university professor. She was sued by the vice president of Guatemala in 2009 for an opinion article which appeared in Siglo Veintiuno. The Constitutional Court, upheld her right to freedom of thought and rejected the ...
Mass media in Guatemala is dominated in the area of commercial television by Mexican media mogul Remigio Ángel González, who since the mid-1990s has "virtual monopoly control of that nation's commercial television airwaves". [1] González controls four television stations in Guatemala - El Super Canal, Televisiete, Teleonce and Trecevisión ...
Telephones. Guatemala's incumbent telephone company is TELGUA, which won the bidding for the privatization of the government run GUATEL. Calling code: +502 [1] International call prefix: 00 [2] Main lines in use: 665,061 lines (2000) 1.4 million lines (2006) 1.7 million lines, 63rd in the world (2012) [1] Mobile cellular:
The U.S. could apply sector-based sanctions against Guatemala if democratic processes there are not respected, a top U.S. official said, stepping up warnings over a dispute centering on the ...
Canal 3 is the first commercial TV station and the second overall station in Guatemala. It began its TV service in 1956. [1] Its programming broadcasts its own productions and telenovelas, among other international productions. It is owned by Grupo Chapín TV, a subsidiary of Remigio Ángel González 's Albavisión group.
Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, 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.
The music of Guatemala is diverse. Music is played all over the country. Towns also have wind and percussion bands that play during the lent and Easter-week processions as well as on other occasions. The marimba is an important instrument in Guatemalan traditional songs. The oldest documented use of marimba in the Americas dates to 1680 during ...