Guatemalan-Maya Center

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

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.

Prosecutors in Palm Beach County told WLRN on Thursday they won’t pursue criminal charges against Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, a teenage U.S. citizen from West Palm Beach who last May video-recorded his arrest by law enforcement authorities following a traffic stop in Riviera Beach that involved federal immigration agents.

An indigenous Guatemalan teen accused in the death of a St. Johns County police sergeant has been cleared of any wrongdoing. Prosecutors announced they were dropping an aggravated manslaughter case against Virgilio Aguilar-Mendez.

The Guatemalan-Maya Center says there is a 30% COVID-19 infection rate among 600 agricultural workers and families.

With whole towns under water in Honduras, aid workers compare Eta to the epic flooding Hurricane Mitch dumped on the Central American nation in 1998.

A group of Lake Worth high schoolers who call themselves the “Mayan Girls” have been working to translate important information — everything from…

It can be hard to find a truly quiet place in the Lake Worth-based Guatemalan-Maya Center.Just inside one door, case workers and other staff answer phones…

In Lake Worth, immigrants and the nonprofits who serve them are gearing up for rumored raids by immigration enforcement this weekend.Some people have…

Most of the stories about Central American migrant children coming to the U.S. in recent years have been sad ones. That’s especially true of Guatemalan…

It’s surreal for Fr. Frank O’Loughlin to see a video of a straight-faced Policarpia Gaspar Xuncax talking about the Guatemalan-Maya Center, a nonprofit…

For more than 50 years, Father Frank O’Laughlin has helped protect and promote the most vulnerable immigrants and refugees in South Florida. The Roman…