Quetzaltenango
Americannoun
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Amilcar Rivas, Quetzaltenango city manager, said that event organizers did not have a grip on security and crowd control.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2022
Miriam López has been waiting for six hours outside a shelter for unaccompanied minor deportees in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala's second biggest city, when officials inside the building yell: "38".
From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2021
In Quetzaltenango, a four-hour drive from Guatemala City, we visited this new government care initiative, called Nidia Martínez, and were disappointed to find it was another institution.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 13, 2018
Farther inland in Quetzaltenango, at a government-run shelter for deported minors, about 40 youngsters were being held the other day, waiting for relatives who must present a birth certificate to pick them up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2014
Legend affirms that in the first battles with the Spaniards on the plateau of Quetzaltenango the naguals of the Indian chiefs fought in the form of serpents.
From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer
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