Guatemala News
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Los Angeles -
A 16-year-old boy died Monday at a Border Patrol station in Texas, becoming the fifth child from Guatemala to die since December after being apprehended by US border patrol agents.
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Guatemala City -
Guatemala's former anti-corruption public prosecutor Thelma Aldana on Thursday abandoned her bid to run in next month's presidential election after she was barred from standing by the country's top court.
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Washington -
The United States cut off aid to several Central American countries President Donald Trump accuses of doing nothing to stop the outflow of US-bound migrants, the State Department announced Saturday.
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Solol -
A truck ploughed into a crowd of indigenous Guatemalans gathered on a highway, leaving 18 dead as it drove off without stopping and plunging the Central American country into an outpouring of grief on Thursday.
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Solol -
Guatemala launched a manhunt on Thursday after 18 indigenous Guatemalans were killed in a hit-and-run by a truck driver who fled the scene.
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Guatemala City -
The parents of a British tourist who has been missing in Guatemala for the past five days launched an emotional appeal for her return Saturday as authorities continued their investigation.
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Guatemala City -
The parents of a British tourist who has been missing in Guatemala for the past five days launched an emotional appeal for her return Saturday as authorities continued their investigation.
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New York -
The former chief of the Guatemalan football federation, who was convicted for extortion and fraud in connection with the FifaGate scandal, was sentenced to time served on Tuesday and fined $350,000.
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Guatemala City -
A 6.5-magnitude earthquake shook Mexico and Guatemala on Friday, leaving three people injured and causing infrastructure damage, authorities said.
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Guatemala City -
The remains of eight-year-old Felipe Gomez, the second Guatemalan child to die last month in the custody of the US Border Patrol, have arrived back home for burial, officials said on Saturday.
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Ciudad Hidalgo -
Hundreds of Central Americans entered Mexico illegally as the latest migrant caravan trying to reach the United States began crossing the Mexican-Guatemalan border en masse Friday.
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Guatemala City -
A new caravan of Central American migrants trying to reach the United States made its way across Guatemala Thursday, with the first members crossing into southern Mexico.
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Guatemala City -
Thousands of Guatemalans marched Saturday against President Jimmy Morales's bid to close a UN anti-corruption mission that sought to investigate him on suspicion of campaign finance violations.
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Guatemala City -
Guatemala's top court on Wednesday overturned a decision by President Jimmy Morales to shut down a United Nations anti-corruption mission to the central American country.
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Guatemala City -
Guatemala brushed aside protests from the United Nations and pressed ahead Tuesday with shutting down a UN anti-corruption mission in the Central American country after it began investigating President Jimmy Morales.
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New York -
The United Nations was on a collision course with Guatemala on Monday after the Central American country announced it was pulling out of an agreement on an anti-corruption commission that has set its sights on President Jimmy Morales.
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Guatemala City -
The death of two Guatemalan children in the United States within weeks of each other has highlighted why there are so many children among Central American migrants heading north: smugglers tell them families have a better chance of being allowed in by ...
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New York -
Four members of an extremist Jewish sect based in Guatemala have been arrested in New York on charges of kidnapping two children, federal prosecutors have said.
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Emigrating to the United States to escape poverty back home is the dream of many residents of the Mayan indigenous community in Yalambojoch, western Guatemala.
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El Paso -
The United States will take "extraordinary" protective measures to deal with a surge of immigrant children in custody, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Wednesday after a second Guatemalan child died in custody.
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Washington -
An eight-year-old migrant from Guatemala died in government custody on Tuesday, US Customs and Border Protection said, the second child fatality in US detention this month.
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Guatemala City -
The body of a Guatemalan migrant girl, who died in US custody after illegally crossing the border with her father, returned home Sunday in a white casket.
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Washington -
The US lawmaker who led a delegation to New Mexico Tuesday to look into the death of a seven-year-old Guatemalan girl in US Border Patrol custody blamed the tragedy on glaring systematic failures.
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Guatemala City -
Outside a humble thatched-roof home deep in the lush Guatemalan countryside, the mother of a seven-year-old girl who died after being detained by US border agents tries to remember happier days with her daughter.
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Washington -
A seven-year-old Guatemalan girl died in American custody after being detained by US border police in New Mexico, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.
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New York -
Ex-Guatemala soccer chief and former FIFA executive committee member Rafael Salguero was sentenced to time served Thursday, releasing him from house arrest over the sweeping corruption scandal plaguing world soccer.
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New York -
Ex-Guatemala soccer chief and former FIFA executive committee member Rafael Salguero, 72, pleaded guilty to accepting bribes in a US court, and will be sentenced by a judge in New York this week, it was revealed Tuesday.
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Guatemala City -
Authorities in Guatemala declared a red alert and evacuated around 4,000 people early Monday after the Central American country's fiery Fuego volcano erupted for the fifth time this year, sending bursts of ash and lava down the mountain.
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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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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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Guatemala Image
Authorities search for evidence and scene of massacre in Villa Canales Guatemala Screen Capture
4th Annual Clown Congress held in Guatemala City. Video screen capture
Map of southern Mexico and Central America Screen Capture
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
Guatemala City from El Mirador. Rigostar (CC BY-SA 3.0)
2007 eruption of Fuego volcano in Guatemala zaxl4
A Guatemalan elementary school student Wikicommons
This is a round structure uncovered at Ceibal, from about 500 B.C. Takeshi Inomata/University of Arizona
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
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
Sandra Torres, presidential candidate in 2015 Guatemala Presidential election. Guatebot
Volcano of Fire in Guatemala erupts on September 13, 2012 Video screen capture
Volcano of Fire (Volcan de Fuego), Guatemala Ron Kelly
Mayan women in Guatemala David Amsler/Flickr Creative Commons
An earthquake struck 5km (3mi) ESE of Ciudad Tecun Uman, Guatemala on September 6, 2013. Google maps
A traditional indigenous home. The roof is made from manaca palm leaves. The house is typical of the Golfo Dulce área, Guatemala. Jjaz
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