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(English-language translation) [Guatemalan] President Óscar Berger expressed concern during an interview in New York with the BBC Mundo network over the future of the United Nations Security Council if Venezuela manages to take the seat Guatemala is also competing for. "If it's Venezuela, I greatly fear the Security Council will be worthless," Berger said. The Guatemalan leader granted the interview after appearing before the U.N. last Wednesday. Prensa Libre tried to get the opinion of Félix Méndez Correa, Venezuela's ambassador to Guatemala, but his secretary said that the diplomat received instructions from his country not to talk about the matter....

(English-language translation) During a visit to [Guatemala], Bolivian President Evo Morales yesterday denounced the existence of a plot by the United States to destabilize his government's policies. Morales affirmed during a press conference: "There is a plot, an aggression from the United States so that the policies that seek a democratic change to achieve justice and equality fail." Regarding the strikes held last week in four of the nine regions of Bolivia, the President said: "It has been against our policies, against the nationalization of the hydrocarbons, against the Constitutional Assembly, against the new land policy, of agrarian revolution." He...

(English-language translation) MADRID - [Guatemala] President Oscar Berger told the Spanish EFE news agency that his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chávez’s interfering in the internal affairs of other countries “will not be tolerated” and warned of a risk of polarization in Latin America. Berger was received yesterday in this city by the Spanish monarchs and will travel today from there to Vienna to participate in the European Union - Latin America Summit. The President expressed his concern, which he has shared with his Salvadoran counterpart Elías Antonio Saca, over the political influence Chávez may exert on countries in the region through...

Exercise New Horizons 2004 kicked off here March 27 during a ceremony attended by Guatemalan President Oscar Berger, U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala John Hamilton and other Guatemalan and U.S. dignitaries. New Horizons 2004 is a joint and combined exercise – in other words, one involving more than one U.S. service and forces from at least one other nation -- sponsored by the U.S. Southern Command, working with the Guatemalan government. It's designed to perform humanitarian and civic assistance projects and to exercise related construction and medical readiness operations, officials said. The U.S. service members deployed here as part of Joint...