- PHOTO TAKEN 10MAR06 - Refined sugar is checked at the Palo Gordo processing plant in San Antonio Suchitepequez, Guatemala March 10, 2006. Sugar-producing countries in Central America are looking to ethanol to breathe new life into the decades-old sugar industry. [The fuel, also known as ethyl alcohol, is made from a sugar by-product and then mixed with gasoline to reduce pollution and lower prices.] Picture taken March 10, 2006.