Guatemala News
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Globally, equivalent of one garbage truck full of plastic enters the sea every minute. To play its part Guatemala has pledged to increase waste collection in its rivers by deploying artisanal bio-fences to trap plastic waste.
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By AFP
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Hundreds of Hondurans crossed a river into Mexico in a fresh wave of migrants heading to the United States on Monday as the United States said it would deploy 5,000 troops on its border with Mexico.
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By AFP
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More than a thousand Honduran migrants broke through a Guatemalan police cordon on the border with Mexico Sunday as they attempted to join a larger caravan of compatriots heading towards the United States, police and rights groups said.
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By AFP
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More than 7,000 people have joined the migrant caravan headed toward the US border with Mexico, a UN spokesman said Monday, citing estimates of the International Organization for Migration.
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By AFP
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President Donald Trump said Monday the United States will begin cutting aid to three Central American nations because of their governments' failure to stop a migrant caravan headed for the US border.
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By AFP
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President Donald Trump said Monday the United States will start cutting aid to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador as a caravan of thousands of mostly Honduran migrants rolled on regardless toward the US border.
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By AFP
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Thousands of Honduran migrants resumed their march toward the United States on Sunday from the southern Mexican city of Ciudad Hidalgo.
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By AFP
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Mexican authorities allowed dozens of women and children from a US-bound Honduran migrant caravan to enter the country Saturday but thousands remain stranded on a border bridge between Guatemala and Mexico where riot police barred their progress.
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By AFP
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Mexican authorities on Saturday allowed dozens of women and children from the Honduran migrant caravan to pass into its territory, the country's ambassador to Guatemala said.
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By AFP
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Thousands of US-bound Honduran migrants remained stranded Saturday after spending the night on a border bridge between Guatemala and Mexico where riot police barred their progress.
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By AFP
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Thousands of migrants who forced their way through Guatemala's northwestern border and flooded onto a bridge leading to Mexico, where riot police battled them back, on Saturday waited at the border in the hope of continuing their journey to the United ...
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By AFP
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Thousands of Honduran migrants marched north Wednesday in a bold attempt to reach the United States, defying threats from US President Donald Trump to stop aid to countries that let them pass.
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By AFP
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The eruption of Guatemala's Fuego volcano ended Saturday, an official source said, with locals escaping a repeat of June's eruption that killed 190.
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By AFP
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A court in Guatemala City on Tuesday sentenced former vice president Roxana Baldetti to 15 years in prison for corruption after a trial lasting four months.
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By AFP
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Guatemala's President Jimmy Morales denounced a United Nations-backed anti-corruption commission as a threat to peace Tuesday in his most virulent attack to date on the controversial watchdog.
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By AFP
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Two activists fighting corruption in Guatemala won the 2018 Rights Livelihood Prize on Monday, the jury for the Swedish human rights prize announced.
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By AFP
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An ethnic Maya woman who advocated for the rights of indigenous people was gunned down by unknown assailants in western Guatemala, her support network and local media said Saturday.
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By AFP
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A 1,500 year old Mayan altar discovered in a small archeological site in northern Guatemala is drawing comparisons to popular fantasy drama television series "Game of Thrones" for its descriptions of the Kaanul dynasty's political strategies aimed at b...
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By AFP
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Thousands of Guatemalan farmers marched peacefully in the capital Wednesday demanding that President Jimmy Morales quit and that a UN-backed anti-corruption office get a new lease on life.
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By AFP
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Guatemala President Jimmy Morales ordered the head of a United Nations anti-corruption commission be blocked from entering the Central American country just four days after shutting down the mission.
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By AFP
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Women's rights activists were forced into a hasty retreat Tuesday in the face of fierce church-led opposition to proposed legislation to loosen strict abortion laws.
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By AFP
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The European Union on Sunday accused the Guatemalan government of President Jimmy Morales of taking a "step backward" by shutting down a UN mission investigating corruption in the central American country.
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By AFP
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Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales on Friday announced he was shutting down a UN mission investigating corruption in his country, accusing it of interfering in its internal affairs.
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By AFP
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Former Guatemalan president Alvaro Colom, arrested in February over corruption allegations, left preventative detention Friday night after his bond was paid, the state penitentiary system said.
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By AFP
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The death toll from the violent eruption of Guatemala's Fuego volcano on June 3 has risen to 121, after the identification of five cadavers recovered from the devastated zone, a forensics institute said Wednesday.
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By AFP
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Deportations of Guatemalans have increased 80 percent this year on the back of US President Donald Trump's controversial "zero tolerance" policy towards unauthorized migrants, Guatemala said on Thursday.
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By AFP
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Yeni Gonzalez sobbed as she clutched the lollipop given to her Tuesday by one of her three children, whom she had not seen since being arrested and separated from them by US border police six weeks ago.
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By AFP
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US Vice President Mike Pence urged Central American leaders Thursday to halt what he called an exodus of people that has triggered a humanitarian crisis at the US border with Mexico.
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By AFP
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Guatemalan lawmakers filed a manslaughter suit Wednesday against the head of the country's civil protection agency over its failure to warn people about the eruption of the Fuego volcano, which left at least 112 dead.
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By AFP
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Guatemala Monday asked the US government to give its migrants Temporary Protected Status after the devastating Fuego volcano eruption.
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Guatemala Image
A Guatemalan elementary school student Wikicommons
This is a round structure uncovered at Ceibal, from about 500 B.C. Takeshi Inomata/University of Arizona
Authorities search for evidence and scene of massacre in Villa Canales Guatemala Screen Capture
Volcano of Fire (Volcan de Fuego), Guatemala Ron Kelly
Mayan Ceremony to mark the end of the 13th Baktun - December 21, 2012 YouTube
Volcano of Fire (Volcan de Fuego), Guatemala Ron Kelly
4th Annual Clown Congress held in Guatemala City. Video screen capture
Mayan women in Guatemala David Amsler/Flickr Creative Commons
Crossing Mexico's Southern border on the
Suchiate River on the Mexico-Guatemala border. VICE
Violent Evictions at El Estor, Guatemala. Screenshot / rightsaction.org
A traditional indigenous home. The roof is made from manaca palm leaves. The house is typical of the Golfo Dulce área, Guatemala. Jjaz
Mob beats and burns 16-year-old girl in Guatemala. Screengrab via Youtube / International News Co.
2007 eruption of Fuego volcano in Guatemala zaxl4
4th Annual Clown Congress held in Guatemala City. Video screen capture
Archaeologists excavate an early residential structure at Ceibal, from about 500 B.C. Takeshi Inomata/University of Arizona
Mayan Ceremony to mark the end of the 13th Baktun - December 21, 2012 YouTube
Map of southern Mexico and Central America Screen Capture
4th Annual Clown Congress held in Guatemala City. Video screen capture
Sandra Torres, presidential candidate in 2015 Guatemala Presidential election. Guatebot
Volcano of Fire (Volcan de Fuego), Guatemala Ron Kelly
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