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SONIA PÉREZ D.

SONIA PÉREZ D.

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Families bid farewell to victims of Guatemala bus crash

Hours before dawn, Julio Arrivillaga and Catalina Pérez Molina boarded a bus with other residents in the center of the humble village of Santo Domingo Los Ocotes in Guatemala for what should have been an hour-long ride to Guatemala’s capital

Families bid farewell to victims of Guatemala bus crash
Americas|Crime|Political|US|World

Migrants describe flights aboard US military planes carrying out Trump's swift deportations

The Trump administration has enlisted the U.S. military to quickly scale up its deportation capacity, which usually relies on charter flights

Migrants describe flights aboard US military planes carrying out Trump's swift deportations
Americas|Election|News

Guatemala's president-elect says he's ready to call people onto the streets

Guatemala's President-elect Bernardo Arévalo says he plans to call people into the streets next week to protest efforts to derail his presidency before he can take office

Guatemala's president-elect says he's ready to call people onto the streets
Americas|Election|News|Opinion

Guatemalans rally on behalf of president-elect, demonstrating a will to defend democracy

Protests by thousands of Guatemalans this week supporting President-elect Bernardo Arévalo suggest that the efforts by some officials to derail his presidency have awakened a new will among many citizens to defend democracy

Guatemalans rally on behalf of president-elect, demonstrating a will to defend democracy
Americas|Education|Election|News

Guatemalan prosecutors request that President-elect Bernardo Arévalo be stripped of immunity

Guatemala’s Attorney General’s office has formally requested that President-elect Bernardo Arévalo and his vice president be stripped of their immunity so it can investigate them for allegedly encouraging the student occupation of the country’s only public university

Guatemalan prosecutors request that President-elect Bernardo Arévalo be stripped of immunity
Americas|News|Political

Guatemalans hope for a peaceful transition of power with Bernardo Arévalo's upcoming inauguration

Guatemalan President-elect Bernardo Arévalo’s imminent inauguration and the unrelenting pursuit of him and his party by the Attorney General are recurring topics over dinner tables in this country, reflecting a political awakening in a population weary of corruption

Guatemalans hope for a peaceful transition of power with Bernardo Arévalo's upcoming inauguration
Americas|Election|News

Bernardo Arévalo sworn in as Guatemala's president despite months of efforts to derail inauguration

Bernardo Arévalo has been sworn in as Guatemala’s president despite months of efforts to derail his inauguration, including foot-dragging and rising tensions right up until the transfer of power

Bernardo Arévalo sworn in as Guatemala's president despite months of efforts to derail inauguration
Americas|News

Bernardo Arévalo faces huge challenges after finally being sworn in as Guatemala's president

Guatemala’s new president has huge challenges to address now that he's finally been sworn into office

Bernardo Arévalo faces huge challenges after finally being sworn in as Guatemala's president
Americas|News|World

Why is the Guatemala attorney general going after the new president?

Despite having the support of millions of Guatemalans, newly installed President Bernardo Arévalo has a clear obstacle — the attorney general’s office and its leader, Consuelo Porras

Why is the Guatemala attorney general going after the new president?
Americas|Crime|News|US

US bars ex-Guatemala President Alejandro Giammattei from entry 3 days after he left office

The U.S. State Department has barred former Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei from entering the United States, accusing him “significant corruption” just- three days after he left office

US bars ex-Guatemala President Alejandro Giammattei from entry 3 days after he left office
Americas|News

Guatemala's new president to ask for society's help in face of opposition from entrenched powers

Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo says that with his political party suspended, little support in congress and an attorney general in hot pursuit, he will appeal to the country's people to help him overcome the entrenched old guard and achieve the change he campaigned on

Guatemala's new president to ask for society's help in face of opposition from entrenched powers
Americas|Crime|News|World

Deaths, drownings and destruction as heavy rains move through Central America. 3 killed in Guatemala

Authorities say three young men have died in a drowning in Guatemala when two of them tried to help another

Americas|News|World

Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo says he found a 'semi-destroyed country' on taking office

Nearly six months into his administration Guatemala President Bernardo Arévalo says opposition in the Congress and the Attorney General’s Office have made it difficult to implement the change he seeks for the Central American nation that he says he found “semi-destroyed.”

Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo says he found a 'semi-destroyed country' on taking office
Americas|Crime|News

Guatemalan family seeks return of relative's body more than a decade after he disappeared in Mexico

Nearly a decade after Guatemalan authorities were told that Mexico had sent the wrong body to a Guatemalan family searching for their missing teenage relative, that unidentified body is still buried in Guatemala and the family’s relative is waiting in a Mexico City morgue

Guatemalan family seeks return of relative's body more than a decade after he disappeared in Mexico
Americas|Crime|News

Authorities say 600 Mexicans have crossed into Guatemala to escape drug cartel violence

Guatemalan authorities say that nearly 600 Mexicans have fled across the border into Guatemala seeking refuge from drug cartel violence

Americas|Crime|News|World

Mexicans seeking refuge in Guatemala describe drug cartel shootouts that drove them to flee

Catholic Church leaders in southern Mexico have made a desperate plea for the Mexican government to protect communities from drug cartels that extract protection payments and use locals as human shields near the border with Guatemala

Mexicans seeking refuge in Guatemala describe drug cartel shootouts that drove them to flee
Americas|Crime|News|World

Guatemalan police arrest 7 accused of trafficking the 53 migrants who asphyxiated in Texas in 2022

Guatemalan police have arrested seven Guatemalans accused of having smuggled 53 migrants from Mexico and Central America who died of asphyxiation in 2022 in Texas after being abandoned in a tractor trailer in the scorching summer heat

Guatemalan police arrest 7 accused of trafficking the 53 migrants who asphyxiated in Texas in 2022
Americas|Crime|News|US

US government indicts Guatemalan suspect on smuggling charges over deaths of 53 migrants in trailer

U.S. authorities have announced the indictment of a Guatemalan suspect who they say helped coordinate a human smuggling effort that ended with 53 migrants dead in a sweltering tractor-trailer in San Antonio

US government indicts Guatemalan suspect on smuggling charges over deaths of 53 migrants in trailer
Americas|News|World

US secures the release of 135 Nicaraguan political prisoners

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

US secures the release of 135 Nicaraguan political prisoners
Americas|World

Guatemalan journalist released from prison fears for the future and being targeted for his work

When Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora returned to his home last week after more than two years in prison without a conviction, he found it empty

Guatemalan journalist released from prison fears for the future and being targeted for his work
Americas

Regional court blames Guatemala for the disappearance of 4 human rights activists in 1989

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has ruled that the Guatemalan government was responsible for human rights violations in the disappearances of four Indigenous human rights defenders in 1989

Americas|Crime

Guatemalan court overturns order that freed journalist José Rubén Zamora, orders his return to jail

A Guatemalan appeals court has overturned the order freeing journalist José Rubén Zamora and ordered his return to jail

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