Guatemala

Guatemala is racing to preserve 60,000 case files of testimony about abuses from its decades of armed conflict before President Bernardo Arévalo's term ends in January 2028. The conflict, from 1960 to 1996, resulted in over 200,000 deaths and 45,000 disappearances, recognized as genocide by the U.N. Arévalo inherited a stalled reparations program from previous administrations.

After tearful goodbyes with her family, friends and community members, Olga Perez boarded an 11 a.m. flight to Guatemala City.

Gabriel García Luna, Guatemala’s new attorney general, pledges to dismantle his predecessor Consuelo Porras’ administration, which he calls “repressive and vengeful.”

At Miami International Airport, a group of children as young as one held on to their stuffed animals — and each other — as they prepared for their early morning flight to Guatemala. They were being flown by a nonprofit to be reunited with their deported parents.

Data show most migrants the Trump administration is deporting, including in South Florida, are non-criminals — and increasingly they're people who are being sent back to countries they haven't seen in decades.

The children of a respected Guatemalan community leader in Lake Worth Beach are missing school and work as court delays keep their undocumented mother detained for months. It’s a look at the toll the immigration system takes on families fighting to stay together.

A seven-month-old Bonita Springs organization is helping families navigate life after a loved one is deported.

A judge is blocking the Trump administration from immediately deporting Guatemalan migrant children who came to the U.S. alone back to their home country.

A report by Global Witness reveals that at least 146 land and environmental defenders have been killed or gone missing worldwide in 2024.

Attorneys for the children ask for a longer-term block, saying deportation would put them in danger and violate their rights.

The Trump administration has tried to deport Guatemalan children living in U.S. shelters or foster care. Advocates for these children filed lawsuits to stop the removals, and a federal judge has temporarily blocked the deportations. The administration says it's reuniting children with families at the Guatemalan government's request. However, advocates argue the process bypasses immigration courts and frightens the children.

Guatemalan journalist and founder of El Periodico José Rubén Zamora has been returned to jail after an appellate court sided with prosecutors and withdrew his house arrest.