MEXICO CITY — A caravan of some 500 migrants that departed northern Honduras in hopes of reaching the United States dissolved Sunday after crossing the border into Guatemala, the Guatemalan Migration Institute reported. Authorities had been monitoring three border crossings and said part of the caravan advanced a few kilometers (miles) into Guatemalan territory, before … Read more
GUATEMALA CITY — Despite having the support of millions of Guatemalans, newly installed President Bernardo Arévalo has a clear obstacle — the attorney general’s office and its leader, Consuelo Porras. Arévalo has made a bold promise to clean up corruption in a Central American nation that for years has kept swaths of the countryside marginalized … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave After a reform-minded professor won the presidency of Guatemala — one of the Western Hemisphere’s most notoriously corrupt countries — governments around the world watched the fallout with alarm. Guatemalan authorities seized ballot boxes on dubious claims of fraud. They tried to dissolve the party of the … Read more
MEXICO CITY — Solway Investment Group, a Switzerland-based mining company with interests in Guatemala, said Monday it agreed with a regional court’s decision requiring the Guatemalan government to recognize the property rights of an Indigenous community. The company, which was not a party to the case, stressed that the Inter-American Court of Human Rights decision … Read more
GUATEMALA CITY — International and regional leaders have rejected the latest attempt by Guatemalan prosecutors to prevent progressive President-elect Bernardo Arévalo from taking office on Jan. 14. Prosecutors asked a court Friday to strip Arévalo of his legal immunity and alleged that minutes seized during a raid of electoral offices showed that results from the … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave GUATEMALA CITY — Samuel Pérez woke up to a loud buzzing sound. It was 6:30 a.m., and the sun had just risen. The congressman reached for his nightstand, fumbled for his iPhone and listened dumbfounded to the latest outrage. “They’re raiding Marcela’s house,” his aide was saying. … Read more
GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan prosecutors said Thursday they will seek to strip President-elect Bernardo Arévalo and several members of his party of their immunity for allegedly making social media posts that encouraged students to take over a public university in 2022. Cultural Heritage prosecutor Ángel Saúl Sánchez announced the move aimed at Arévalo and members … Read more
GUATEMALA CITY — The sudden resignation of a Guatemalan Cabinet minister appears to signal a division within the administration of President Alejandro Giammattei over how to remove the protest roadblocks that have stretched into their third week. Interior Minister Napoleón Barrientos, a retired brigadier general, resigned late on Monday following a shooting near one of … Read more
GUATEMALA CITY — One person died and at least two more were injured by gunshots near a pro-democracy demonstration in Guatemala on Monday, local authorities said. Victor Gomez, spokesman for the volunteer firemen in Malacatan, near the border with Mexico, said it was not clear whether the victims were protesters themselves, or just caught nearby. … Read more
Policemen have shoved and wrestled with justices of Guatemala’s top electoral tribunal, as prosecutors sought to seize the tally sheets of votes from the August presidential elections ByThe Associated Press September 30, 2023, 12:51 PM A cordon of police agents stand guard during a raid by the Attorney General’s office of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, … Read more