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Guatemala pledges support for Taiwan, China accuses island of 'political manipulation'

Guatemalan Foreign Minister Mario Bucaro said on Tuesday that the Central American country will "always support" Taiwan, after China conducted its largest-ever military drills around the self-ruled island earlier this month.

Reuters

Kidnappers burned alive by a vigilante mob after boy, 11, killed despite £11k ransom

Smoke rose through the canopy of a Guatemalan jungle village as a group of revenge-driven locals burned to death three kidnappers who shot dead their 10-year-old hostage and dumped him in a septic tank - despite the parents paying their ransom

Daily Mirror

Guatemala follows money in migrant smuggling investigations

Guatemalan investigators raided the home of the alleged leader of a migrant smuggling ring tucked into mountains near the Mexican border in January and found some $51,000 in coins, nearly 100 slot machines and late-model vehicles purchased with cash

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4 places to discover the Mayan world in Mexico and Central America

Mexico, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are celebrating three decades of founding the Mayan World Organization (Organización Mundo Maya), which focuses on improving the quality of life of the region's residents through sustainable tourism policies.

Tribune News Service

Guatemalans march in protest of corruption, cost of living

Hundreds of Guatemalans set out from various points of the capital to protest alleged corruption by a deeply unpopular government, the high cost of living and attacks on freedom of expression

The Independent UK

Guatemalan journalist calls charges against him a 'set-up'

A prominent Guatemalan journalist’s initial hearing before a judge has been suspended after the judge announced that the journalist’s lawyers were also targets of the government’s investigation

The Independent UK

Guatemala arrests migrant smugglers wanted by the US

Guatemalan authorities have arrested more than a dozen alleged members of a migrant smuggling network near the shared border with Mexico, including four sought by the United States in connection with the death of a migrant in Texas in 2021

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Guatemalan journalist known for investigations still jailed

A prize-winning Guatemalan journalist jailed on alleged money laundering charges that government critics have denounced as a pressure tactic had his initial appearance before a judge canceled Monday

The Independent UK

Arrest of prominent Guatemalan journalist draws condemnation

Guatemalan officials have arrested a prominent newspaper editor who has overseen investigations into corruption

The Independent UK

Guatemala detains renowned journalist on money laundering, blackmail allegations

Guatemalan authorities arrested a well-known local journalist on accusations of money laundering and blackmail, according to a prosecutor in charge of the case, a move that has sparked outrage among human rights activists.

Reuters

A 14-year-old went to Texas to help his family build a bigger house in Guatemala. Now his family is burying him.

Juan Wilmer Tulul Tepaz was one of the 53 migrants who died after being trapped in a tractor-trailer in San Antonio. His body was returned to his village, which has buried several youths who left to seek better lives in the U.S.

The Texas Tribune

Guatemala's president visits Ukraine, expresses solidarity

Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei has visited Ukraine and expressed his solidarity with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

The Independent UK

Over 200 mostly Guatemalan migrants found in Mexican warehouse

Mexican security officials detained more than 200 mostly Guatemalan migrants at a warehouse in central Mexico who were waiting to be smuggled northward, the government said on Sunday.

Reuters

Guatemala’s former economics minister pleads guilty to using Miami bank accounts to pay bribes

MIAMI — A former high-ranking government official in Guatemala has pleaded guilty in Miami federal court to conspiring to commit money laundering while paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to Guatemalan politicians through the U.S. banking system.

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Colombia President-elect Petro names Ivan Velasquez as defense minister

Colombia's incoming leftist President Gustavo Petro on Friday named Ivan Velasquez, a former assistant judge in the country's Supreme Court of Justice and previously a UN anti-corruption investigator in Guatemala, as his defense minister.

The Independent UK

Two men indicted in San Antonio migrant trailer tragedy

The Attorney General’s Office could authorize prosecutors to seek the death penalty

Input

Netflix's password-sharing crackdown has already begun

Early tests in Argentina, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras reveal a fee of $2.99 per extra home.

Tribune News Service

North Texas migrant sees awful irony — his success is why others die to reach US

DALLAS — Carlos Joaquin Salinas is finally becoming the person he dreamt he’d be. Someone respected. Someone his mother is proud of.

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Guatemala returns 1st of its 21 victims from Texas trailer

Guatemala has repatriated its first victim from the failed smuggling attempt that left 53 migrants from Mexico and Central America dead last month in San Antonio, Texas

Zenger

Extremely Remote: Woman Saves Up Thousands Traveling Worldwide While Working A New York City Job

“I did a month in Guatemala, realized how easy it was, and a lot of people I met told me you can stay in co-working hostels."

Los Angeles Times

Under new program, some migrant kids will no longer be separated from relatives at border

LOS ANGELES — After the girl's grandfather died, she traveled from Guatemala to the Texas border with her uncle.

Wales Online

Woman remote works from anywhere in world and puts £1,600 a month into savings

Madi has been doing her office job from Columbia, Guatemala, Mexico, Italy, Costa Rica, France, Belgium and Kenya

Al Jazeera

Texas migrant deaths highlight growing desperation in Guatemala

Families are in mourning after dozens were found dead in an abandoned trailer en route to a ‘better future’.

The Independent UK

A migrant survivor of the trailer: 'They couldn't breathe'

The advice of a friend to stay near the door of a semi-trailer may have saved Yenifer Yulisa Cardona Tomás from the deadly end that 53 other migrants met when the truck was abandoned on the outskirts of San Antonio

The Texas Tribune

Migrants in Texas trailer tragedy died seeking better lives

News of the trailer full of bodies struck horror in cities and villages accustomed to watching their young people leave, trying to flee poverty or violence in Central America and Mexico.

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