Guatemala News
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Washington -
Vice President Kamala Harris thanked the Guatemalan president Tuesday for monitoring the border with Honduras, during a telephone call to discuss the recent surge of Central American migrants into the United States, the White House said.
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Gutierrez -
The governments of Mexico and Guatemala have launched a joint military-police operation along their common border aimed at blocking caravans of migrants hoping to reach the United States.
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Guatemala City -
The Pacaya volcano close to Guatemala's capital is maintaining "high levels" of activity with strong eruptions, ash clouds and rivers of lava spewing out, officials said on Friday.
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Gutierrez -
Mexico will step up security along its southern border with Guatemala to stop child migrants crossing on their way to the United States, the authorities said Friday.
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Guatemala City -
Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei on Friday urged justice for 16 migrants gruesomely murdered in Mexico in January, as their remains were received with honors.
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Guatemala City -
Central American countries are preparing for a wave of migrant caravans containing people from as far away as Africa and Asia to cross their territories, a Guatemala official said Friday.
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Guatemala City -
Thousands of rural Guatemalans marched on the capital Thursday to demand the resignation of President Alejandro Giammattei for what they claim was a weak response to the coronavirus pandemic and other mismanagement.
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Mexico -
The massacre of a group of migrants whose charred bodies were found in northern Mexico has shone a spotlight on the entrenched links between police and criminals in the violence-ridden country.
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Ciudad Victoria -
Mexico has identified at least four of the 19 bodies found shot and burnt near the US border, prosecutors said Saturday.
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Guatemala City -
The United States, Mexico and Guatemala agreed Friday to bar migrant caravans from passing through their territories due to the Covid pandemic, days after one from Honduras was violently broken up in Guatemala.
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Sanarate -
Returning home to a life of hunger and desolation, Hondurans who were kicked out of Guatemala as they started off on a long walk to the United States are vowing they will not abandon their pursuit of the American dream.
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Gual -
In buses and trucks, Guatemala on Tuesday returned thousands of migrants to Honduras after police and soldiers halted their northward march to the United States, dashing their hopes of a better life there.
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Gual -
In buses and trucks, Guatemala on Tuesday returned thousands of migrants to Honduras after police and soldiers halted their northward march to the United States, dashing their hopes of a better life there.
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Gual -
Guatemalan security forces on Monday broke up a caravan of some 4,000 Honduran migrants trying to reach the United States on a journey of thousands of kilometers through Central America on foot, AFP reporters witnessed.
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Gual -
Thousands of Honduran migrants trying to reach the United States on a journey of thousands of kilometers through Central America on foot remained stuck in Guatemala on Monday, their advance stymied by security forces.
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Gual -
Guatemalan police fired tear gas Sunday to disperse thousands of Honduran migrants trying to reach the United States on foot, with soldiers beating back a group trying to push through barricades, AFP journalists witnessed.
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Gual -
Guatemalan police fired tear gas Sunday to disperse thousands of migrants headed for the United States on foot, and soldiers beat back a group that tried to push through barriers, AFP journalists witnessed.
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Camot -
At least 9,000 Honduran migrants have entered Guatemala after a first group pushed past border police late Friday and others soon followed on the first step of a journey north they hope will take them to the United States, officials said Saturday.
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Guatemala City -
Thousands of indigenous Mayans blocked a major highway in western Guatemala on Monday, the latest in a series of protests calling for the resignation of President Alejandro Giammattei.
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Guatemala City -
Guatemala's embattled government opened talks on a revised budget on Tuesday, after days of protests forced Congress to back off from approving a business-friendly spending plan backed by President Alejandro Giammattei.
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Guatemala City -
Guatemala's under-fire President Alejandro Giammattei swept into office in January 2020 promising to clean up corruption and fight organized crime.
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Guatemala City -
Guatemala's legislature on Monday backed away from approving a business-friendly 2021 budget after demonstrators in the Central American nation torched the Congress building and demanded the resignation of President Alejandro Giammattei in weekend prot...
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Guatemala City -
Guatemala's Congress suspended on Monday a controversial government budget that sparked protests in the impoverished Central American nation, including the torching of the legislature's building.
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Guatemala City -
Hundreds of Guatemalans took to the streets for a second day Sunday to demand the resignation of President Alejandro Giammattei, following the passage of a budget that has sparked outrage in the impoverished Central American nation.
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Guatemala City -
Hundreds of Guatemalans partly burned the Congress building Saturday in a protest demanding the resignation of President Alejandro Giammattei, following the passage of a budget that has sparked outrage in the impoverished Central American nation.
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Tegucigalpa -
Honduras and Guatemala announced evacuations Friday as a second major hurricane in days closed in on Central America with the region still reeling from deadly storm Eta last week.
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Guatemala City -
Guatemalan police have recovered more than 1.5 tons of cocaine worth an estimated $20 million from a crashed plane near the Mexican border, the attorney general's office said Thursday.
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Gutierrez -
Torrential rain and a bitter cold front linked to storm system Eta have claimed at least 20 lives in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, officials said Saturday.
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Guatemala City -
About 150 people have died or remain unaccounted for in Guatemala due to mudslides caused by powerful storm Eta, which devastated an indigenous village in the country's north, President Alejandro Giammattei said Friday.
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Guatemala City -
About 150 people have either died or remain unaccounted for in Guatemala due to mudslides caused by powerful storm Eta, which buried an entire village, President Alejandro Giammattei said Friday.
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Guatemala Image
4th Annual Clown Congress held in Guatemala City. Video screen capture
A traditional indigenous home. The roof is made from manaca palm leaves. The house is typical of the Golfo Dulce área, Guatemala. Jjaz
4th Annual Clown Congress held in Guatemala City. Video screen capture
This is a round structure uncovered at Ceibal, from about 500 B.C. Takeshi Inomata/University of Arizona
Volcano of Fire in Guatemala erupts on September 13, 2012 Video screen capture
2007 eruption of Fuego volcano in Guatemala zaxl4
Volcano of Fire (Volcan de Fuego), Guatemala Ron Kelly
Violent Evictions at El Estor, Guatemala. Screenshot / rightsaction.org
Mayan Ceremony to mark the end of the 13th Baktun - December 21, 2012 YouTube
Archaeologists excavate an early residential structure at Ceibal, from about 500 B.C. Takeshi Inomata/University of Arizona
4th Annual Clown Congress held in Guatemala City. Video screen capture
Map of southern Mexico and Central America Screen Capture
Sandra Torres, presidential candidate in 2015 Guatemala Presidential election. Guatebot
Crossing Mexico's Southern border on the
Suchiate River on the Mexico-Guatemala border. VICE
Mayan Ceremony to mark the end of the 13th Baktun - December 21, 2012 YouTube
Mob beats and burns 16-year-old girl in Guatemala. Screengrab via Youtube / International News Co.
Authorities search for evidence and scene of massacre in Villa Canales Guatemala Screen Capture
An earthquake struck 5km (3mi) ESE of Ciudad Tecun Uman, Guatemala on September 6, 2013. Google maps
Volcano of Fire (Volcan de Fuego), Guatemala Ron Kelly
A Guatemalan elementary school student Wikicommons
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