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• RDC's Memorial on the Merits
  26-Jun-2009, ICSID Filing (PDF 1 MB)

• Thieves strike Guatemala Railways
  March 2009, International Railway Journal  (PDF 455k)

• Letter to the Shareholders of Ferrovias Guatemala (English)
  5-Mar-2009 (PDF 257k)  (View Spanish)

• Arbitrators decline Guatemala's request for clarification of jurisdictional ruling in CAFTA railway dispute  22-Jan-2009, Investment Arbitration Reporter  (PDF 99k)

• Tribunal refuses to clarify decision on jurisdiction in RDC v. Republic of Guatemala  20-Jan-2009,  Investment Treaty News  (PDF 48k)

• "A License to Steal"; Photos from Infrastructure Inspection Trip by Henry Posner III, Chairman of FVG  19-Jan-2009  (HTML)

• Guatemala's objection to jurisdiction dismissed in DR-CAFTA arbitration   
  26-Nov-2008,  Investment Treaty News  (PDF 48k)

• Tribunal rejects Guatemala's objection to jurisdiction
  21-Nov-2008,  Global Arbitration Review (PDF 46k)

• Tribunal rejects Guatemala's objection to jurisdiction in CAFTA railroad dispute
  19-Nov-2008,  Investment Arbitration Reporter  (PDF 24k)

• As Guatemala jumps on PPP train, not everyone's on board
  17-Nov-2008,  PEI Infrastructure Investor  (PDF 36k)

• CAFTA arbitration panel named for Guatemala Railway dispute   
  16-Apr-2008  (PDF 27k)

• Arbitration panel in first CAFTA-DR investor-state case awaits arbitrator  
  3-Mar-2008,  International Trade Daily, No. 41  (PDF 26k)

• Iowa Interstate parent pulls out of Guatemala
  December 2007,  TRAINS Magazine  (PDF 1.1 MB)

• Two Krupp steam locomotives preserved by Ferrovias Guatemala   
  26-Nov-2007,  TRAINS News Wire  (PDF 31k)

• Situation Report: Requiem for rail in Guatemala?
  October 2007,  Latin Tracks  (PDF 913k)

• The lights go out
  October 2007,   Railway Gazette International  (PDF 146k)

• "The System will not change, because of private interests"
  7-Sep-2007,   Prensa Libre  (PDF 49k)

• CAFTA arbitration accepted by ICSID tribunal; arbitrators appointed  
  31-Aug-2007  (PDF 39k)

• A political storm threatens to put the lights out in Guatemala
  August 2007,  International Railway Journal  (PDF 64k)

• Bad publicity for Guatemala (video)
  WSJ Americas columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady discusses RDC's fraught attempt to develop the country's railroads. (23-Jul-2007)
  http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid452319854/bctid1121358843

• Train wreck in Guatemala
  23-Jul-2007,  The Wall Street Journal  (PDF 37k)

• Posner punts
  16-Jul-2007,  Pittsburgh Tribune-Review  (PDF 18k)

• Ferrovias will decelerate operations in October
  11-Jul-2007,  Siglo XXI  (PDF 75k)

• Guatemala derails RDC
  10-Jul-2007, Latin Lawyer Online  (PDF 67k)

• Letter from the Chairman of Ferrovias Guatemala to its customers, employees and friends  6-Jul-2007  (PDF 17k)

• RDC files Claim to Institute Binding International Arbitration under CAFTA against the Republic of Guatemala  15-Jun-2007  (PDF 31k)

• An uphill climb...
  14-Jun-2007, Los Angeles Times  (PDF 520k)

• Guatemala:  Salvation Arrives on Wheels
  Summer 2007,  Wheelchair Foundation  (PDF 128k)

• RDC files first Investor-State case under CAFTA against Guatemala
  23-Mar-2007,  Inside U.S. Trade  (PDF 31k)

• Two investors bring CAFTA claims
  23-Mar-2007,  Global Arbitration Review  (PDF 42k)

• Two investors bring CAFTA claims
  22-Mar-2007,  Latin Lawyer Online  (PDF 70k)

• A derailment in Guatemala
  18-Mar-2007,  Pittsburgh Tribune-Review  (PDF 26k)

• RDC files Notice of Intent to Submit Claims for Arbitration under CAFTA against the Republic of Guatemala  13-Mar-2007  (PDF 29k)
  
  Public Posting: http://dace.mineco.gob.gt/dacepdf/doc1exp16dace07.pdf 
  (2.9 MB) (source: Ministry of the Economy, Guatemala)

• A time for optimism
  March 2007,  International Railway Journal  (PDF 63k)

• Guatemalan government violates terms of railroad privatization agreement
  28-Aug-2006  (PDF 32k)

• FVG celebrates one year with No Personal Injuries
  6-Feb-2006  (PDF 78k)

• Anniversary: Special Events in Guatemala
  July 2005,  Latin Tracks  (PDF 228k)

• New Steam for Old Engines
  July/August 2004,  Americas  (PDF 3.7 MB)

• Fifth Anniversary in Guatemala
  March 2004,  Latin Tracks  (PDF 412k)

• Back on track - Henry Posner '77 gets Third World trains running again  
  9-Oct-2002,  Princeton Alumni Weekly  (PDF 19k)

• Ferrovias Guatemala remembers Sergio Paiz  
  13-Sep-2002  (PDF 21k)

• In Guatemala, a railway phoenix rises
  August 2002,  TRAINS Magazine  (PDF 89k)

• Real railroaders never quit
  August 2002,  TRAINS Magazine  (PDF 2.9 MB)

• DESTINATION: GUATEMALA - chugging through Guatemala
  10-Sep-2000,   Los Angeles Times  (PDF 126k)

• Chapter 13:  Ferrovias Guatemala
  Project Finance in Latin America: Practical Case Studies (2000)  (PDF 975k)

• FEGUA rail network reconstruction, Guatemala
  6-Oct-1999  Net Resources International Ltd.  (PDF 85k)

• Working on the railroad
  Spring 1999,  EQuad News  (PDF 66k)

• Guatemala--Last stand for rail in Central America
  1998,  Rail Business Report  (PDF 185k)

• Entrepreneurial rail management
  August 1997,  International Railway Journal  (PDF 31k)

• Guatemalan railroad company (FEGUA) concessioned
  June 1997,  Guatemala News Watch  (PDF 17k)

• Rewards down the line
  Dec. 1996 / Jan. 1997,  Infrastructure Finance  (PDF 84k)