Guatemala indicts fourth former top military official for Maya genocide
Guatemala's human rights prosecutor on Friday indicted another former top military official for genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the bloodiest phase of the Central American country's 36-year civil war. A military operations chief under deceased Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt, Luis Enrique Mendoza ...
Honduran offered asylum in Guatemala under U.S. deal opts instead for home
The first Central American asylum seeker sent to Guatemala under that country's "safe third country" agreement with the U.S. has opted to instead return to his home in Honduras. A tearful Erwin Jose Ardon Montoya arrived Saturday at his parent's small adobe house in the ...
Guatemala election winner Alejandro Giammattei sets sights on changing U.S. migrant deal
Guatemalan conservative Alejandro Giammattei secured a crushing victory in a presidential election Sunday, and promised to seek better terms for his country from an unpopular migration deal agreed with Washington under duress last month. With preliminary results from over 99 percent of polling stations counted, ...
Young Central Americans seeking asylum in U.S. easy prey for MS13 gang
Young Central American asylum-seekers fleeing violence and poverty in their home countries are increasingly falling prey to the notorious MS13 gang in the United States, authorities say. The youngsters, most of them from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, are proving to be easy targets for ...
Guatemala scrubs Trump summit, will not sign 'safe third country' deal
Guatemala said on Sunday it would postpone President Jimmy Morales' visit to Washington to discuss Guatemala's potential designation as a "safe third country" for asylum seekers, stressing that it has no plans to sign such an agreement. In a statement, Guatemala said the planned meeting ...
U.S.-bound migrants rush to enter Mexico ahead of security crackdown demanded by Trump
Central American migrants eager to beat a crackdown by Mexico on its southern border with Guatemala scrambled into the country on Thursday as the government prepared to send thousands of National Guard members to plug gaps in the porous frontier. Mexico has agreed with the ...
Trump aides repeat threat to shut down U.S.-Mexico border on 'melting point' migrant crisis
The Trump administration on Sunday doubled down on its threat to shut down the southern border with Mexico, a day after it cut aid to Central American countries which President Donald Trump accused of deliberately sending migrants to the United States. Faced with a surge ...
Wife of Guatemalan president investigated for cashing illegal checks
The wife of Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales will be investigated on suspicion of cashing illicit checks made out to her and her husband totaling more than $30,000, the country's top prosecutor said on Friday. Four checks were written out by a business also being investigated ...
Christmas funeral for Guatemalan girl who died in U.S. custody too much for grieving mom to bear
A crowd of mourners said goodbye to the 7-year-old Guatemalan migrant girl who died in U.S. custody this month, laying her to rest in a Christmas Day funeral that left her mother so crushed she could not bear to attend. Friends and family on Tuesday ...
Outside a humble thatched-roof home deep in the lush Guatemalan countryside, the mother of a 7-year-old girl who died after being detained by U.S. border agents tries to remember happier days with her daughter. The 27-year-old woman mournfully points to a nearby tree that young ...
Former Guatemalan soldier sentenced to over 5,000 years for taking part in 1982 massacre of 171
A Guatemalan court Wednesday sentenced a former soldier to 5,160 years in prison for the massacre of 171 people in what is considered one of the worst atrocities in that country's 36-year-long civil war. Prosecutors said Santos Lopez participated in the 1982 mass killings of ...
A new group of migrants bound for the United States set off from El Salvador on Sunday, following thousands of other Central Americans fleeing poverty and violence who have taken similar journeys in recent weeks. The group of more than 300 Salvadorans left the capital ...
