GUATEMALA TEACHERS HAVE NOT BEEN PAID FOR SIX MONTHS.

Guatemala teachers strike road block.
** The alleged Mafiaso couple ruling Guatemala. President Alvaro Colom and wife.



TEACHERS UNION STRANGLE THE ECONOMY OF GUATEMALA

Roads are blocked ALL OVER GUATEMALA and the economy is at a standstill. Blockades by teachers are because the government has not paid their salaries for 6 months. Protests are wide spread.
On the local scene the road is blocked BY STRIKERS, about 2 miles outside of the Central Peten, twin towns of Santa Elena Town and Flores, Peten, Guatemala, going to TIKAL and to Melchor de Menchos on the frontier with Belize.
TIKAL is cut off for tourists coming East by road, when they get to Flores/Santa Elena in the central Peten.

President Alvaro Colom of Guatemala, has the reputation of being a murderous Mafioso according to Guatemala media and is alleged to be stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the government during his term in office.