Jody García

Six Convicted in 2017 Fire That Killed 41 Girls in Guatemala Group Home

The bus collided with other vehicles on a main bridge in Guatemala’s capital before falling into a ravine early Monday morning.

The Department of Defense said this week that it would provide planes for deportation flights.

The authorities say at least 160 children and teenagers may have been victims of human trafficking and other crimes on a farm run by an ultra-Orthodox sect, Lev Tahor.

The case against José Rubén Zamora became a sign of crumbling democracy in Guatemala and a symbol of threats against press freedom across Latin America.

La policía dijo que entre los arrestados se encuentra el líder del grupo implicado en la operación de contrabando en 2022. Este se enfrenta a la extradición a Estados Unidos.

Prosecutors in Guatemala, which has a history of targeting nonprofit groups, said they were probing claims of child abuse, which the charity denied.

For hours, it was unclear whether Bernardo Arévalo, an anticorruption crusader, would take office at all, as lawmakers delayed the transfer of power.

Outsiders overperformed, underscoring the volatility of Latin American politics. Candidates calling to emulate El Salvador’s crackdown on crime did not do well.

A former first lady and an anticorruption candidate are on the ballot in a runoff contest.

The landslide victory by the candidate of an upstart party signals an uncertain new chapter in Central America’s largest country.

Can an intellectual on an anti-graft crusade win the presidency in a nation sliding toward authoritarianism? Guatemala is about to find out.

A prosecutor had tried to suspend the party, knocking the anticorruption presidential candidate Bernardo Arévalo out of next month’s runoff contest.

The election in the Central American nation is marked by the exclusion of top candidates and calls to crack down on violent crime.

Bernardo Arévalo, a professorial lawmaker, stunned Guatemala’s establishment by advancing to a second round against Sandra Torres, a former first lady.

Guatemala’s first round of elections on Sunday is as much about who’s not on the ballot as who is, after courts barred leading candidates from running.

On Monday, elPeriodico, an investigative daily in Guatemala, published its final edition after more than 26 years. Its executive editor is in jail and some of its reporters are in exile.

President Alejandro Giammattei said he would veto the bill days after his allies pushed it through the legislature, a move that surprised analysts, human rights activists and officials.

A previous inquiry was cut short when the chief anti-corruption prosecutor was fired, but media reports of cash payments have prompted another one.