Sonia Pérez D. | Associated Press

In the first week of President Donald Trump's second term, the Department of Homeland Security reported deporting some 7,300 people. Among them were a planeload of Guatemalans who touched down in that country's capital this week, three days after being apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol.

Guatemala President Bernardo Arévalo anticipates there will be issues like immigration that will generate tension with the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump, but the former peacebuilder also sees shared interests.

Hundreds of Nicaraguan religious leaders, students, activists, dissidents and journalists are 'stateless.' President Daniel Ortega's government stripped them of their citizenship, homes and government pensions. They are scattered across the United States and other countries, in limbo as they struggle to recover from physical and psychological trauma.

The United States government says it has secured the release of 135 Nicaraguan political prisoners who have arrived in Guatemala.

Zamora, the 67-year-old founder of El Periodico newspaper, was sentenced to six years in prison last June for alleged money laundering. But that conviction and sentence were overturned by another court and a new trial ordered.

The sudden resignation of a Guatemalan Cabinet minister appears to signal a division within the administration of President of Alejandro Giammattei over how to remove the protest roadblocks that have stretched into their third week.

One of the leaders of the nationwide protests that have paralyzed much of Guatemalan commerce for nearly two weeks is a young one-time law student who is now leader of one of the country’s most important Indigenous organizations.

Candidates to be Guatemala’s next president are pushing a neighbor’s controversial success into the race.

A Guatemalan newspaper known for hard-hitting investigations of government corruption and whose founder is currently on trial, has announced that it will shut down.