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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.
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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.
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After anti-corruption candidate Bernardo Arévalo won Guatemala’s presidential election last week in a landslide, his establishment opponents started moving on Monday to block his victory. Still, Guatemala experts don’t think their effort will have success.
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In Guatemala, an anti-corruption candidate wins the runoff election by a landslide, in a vote that was a critical test of the Central American country's democratic credentials.
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Guatemalan agents and police have raided the offices of the Seed Movement of presidential candidate Bernardo Arévalo as part of an investigation into alleged wrongdoing in the party’s formation.
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COMMENTARY Florida plays a hemispheric double standard — condemning left-wing tyranny but coddling right-wing assaults on democracy in places like Guatemala.