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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.
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COMMENTARY By equating Israel's admittedly brutal counter-offensive in Gaza with genuine genocide like Guatemala's, protesters risk rendering genocide itself less meaningful.
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Survivors of Guatemalan military massacres have brought former army general Benedicto Lucas García to trial for genocide — and many, after fleeing threats, are now part of Lake Worth Beach's large Maya community.
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In the U.S., fentanyl has largely displaced heroin because of how cheaply Mexican cartels can produce the synthetic opioid. It means demand for opium poppies has plunged. As Guatemala poppy farmers lose their primary income, many in poverty-stricken areas migrate to the U.S.
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Prosecutor Rafael Curruchiche said that the complaint filed by an unidentified foreigner had raised serious concerns because it involved allegations of abuse of children.
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Many migrants make the perilous journey because they can’t find another way out of extreme poverty. Guatemalans are the largest group of unaccompanied minors crossing the U.S.-Mexican border illegally.
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Last June, José Rubén Zamora was sentenced to six years in prison in a money laundering case that concluded following a trial that press freedom groups decried as political persecution.
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Gay and trans migrants often faced violence in their home countries. Many face similar persecution from their countrymen in the U.S.
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Amid national outcry, the Guatemala Maya Center in Lake Worth Beach continues its effort to help release an indigenous Guatemalan teen farmer who is charged in the death of a St. Johns County police officer who died of a heart attack shortly after a physical struggle to detain the farmer.
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Bernardo Arévalo was sworn in as Guatemala's president on Monday minutes after midnight despite months of efforts to derail his inauguration and rising tensions right up until the transfer of power.
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Bernardo Arévalo, who won the Guatemalan presidency by a landslide, says what is happening in his country is a "coup in slow motion."
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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.