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A migrant’s dream cut short: Woman’s killing in Chicago prompts Guatemalan community to band together, speak out on dangers of migrating north

CHICAGO — The last time that Reyna Cristina Ical Seb saw her family, she promised them that she would send enough money to fix their small home in a rural Indigenous town in Guatemala. At just 20 years old, she made her way north, crossing several borders before settling in…

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103 unaccompanied minors found in abandoned trailer in Mexico, govt says

Mexican authorities found 103 unaccompanied minors mostly from Guatemala inside an abandoned truck trailer in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, the government said on Monday, in one of the biggest recent discoveries of migrant children traveling through Mexico.

Reuters

Judge orders investigation of Guatemalan journalists

A Guatemalan judge has ordered the investigation of nine journalists from a newspaper whose president, a prominent government critic, has already been jailed on various charges since last year

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Luis Cuevas obituary

Other lives: Medical researcher who worked at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine after fleeing political violence in Guatemala

The Guardian - UK

Guatemalans protest candidate ban

Thousands of people demonstrated in Guatemala to protest a court’s decision not to allow an indigenous candidate to register for the country’s June 25 presidential elections

The Independent UK

Three missionaries killed as plane plummets from sky and bursts into flames in field

The plane fell out the sky a few minutes after take off from the San Francisco region of Guatemala, crashing down into a field before the wreckage was engulfed in flame

Daily Mirror

A kid in Guatemala had a dream. Today she's a disease detective

Neudy Rojop made a girlhood pledge. When family members fell ill, she says she decided to become a nurse "so I could change my community for good."

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Japanese company opens first auto parts plant in Guatemala

A Japanese company has opened the first auto parts plant in Guatemala

The Independent UK

$50M shrine to honor slain priest, first US Catholic martyr

The birth of Stanley Francis Rother was by all accounts ordinary, aside from the weather

The Independent UK

Former victim who escaped jungle paedophile cult shares details of monstrous abuse

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Yisrael Amir, now 22, was just 12 years old when his father ripped him away from his home in Israel with the promises of a heavenly life in Guatemala, but he instead arrived at a cult compound where leaders have been accused of raping children

Daily Mirror

Corruption rife across Latin America; Guatemala, Nicaragua reach all-time lows: report

Guatemala, Nicaragua and Cuba reached all-time lows on Transparency International's corruption index released on Tuesday due to increased organized crime by public institutions, co-optation by political and economic elites and increased human rights abuses.

Reuters

Ex-Guatemalan police chief convicted of US visa fraud

A former Guatemalan police chief has been found guilty of lying on his U.S. immigration papers about a prior conviction for killing two political activists in his country

The Independent UK

Inside My Wedding: Co Tyrone couple elope in Guatemala with beautiful, intimate ceremony

"Most couples today are probably under a lot of pressure to have a big wedding but despite ours being only us, our families and friends backed our decision"

Belfast Live

Mexico finds over 50 unaccompanied kids from Guatemala in migrant truck

Mexican authorities on Thursday stopped a crowded truck transporting nearly 70 migrants from Guatemala, mostly unaccompanied children, the country's National Institute of Migration (INM) said in a statement.

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Trust, Talk and Teachers: Assessing Trauma Among California Youth

Taking the time to find out what California’s hurting immigrant children need.

Daily Record

Carlos Pena exits retirement but Rangers flop gets firm behaviour warning over colourful past

It comes after a story of obscurity in El Salvador and Guatemala before ending up in Honduras with CD Vida.

Reuters

Former Panama president's sons return after U.S. conviction for money laundering

Two sons of former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli returned to their country on Wednesday, after serving a sentence in the United States for money laundering in a case linked to the Odebrecht scandal, a spokesperson for the family said.

Reuters

Guatemala to require visa for Dominicans amid spike in migrants

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Immigration influx tests newcomers and organizations in Tampa

TAMPA, Fla. — He left Cuba seven months ago with his wife and three kids in a journey that took him from his native Guantanamo through Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala to the U.S.-Mexico border.

Reuters

Guatemalan ex-president Colom dies from cancer, says former minister

Guatemala's former president Alvaro Colom died on Monday aged 71 from esophageal cancer, his former security minister Carlos Menocal told Reuters.

The Independent UK

Álvaro Colom, former president of Guatemala, dies at 71

Former Guatemala President Álvaro Colom, who governed from 2008 to 2012 and supported a United Nations anticorruption mission that later investigated him, has died at age 71

The Independent UK

Guatemala pursues journalist's lawyers

Guatemalan authorities have arrested a lawyer representing the jailed director of an investigative newspaper and are pursuing a second lawyer for alleged obstruction of justice

The Guardian - US

Colombia defends minister who led Guatemala corruption inquiry as row deepens

Country says accusations against Iván Velásquez attempt by Guatemala to ‘persecute’ those investigating high-level corruption

Reuters

Diplomatic row between Guatemala, Colombia deepens over graft probes

A diplomatic spat between Guatemala and Colombia intensified on Tuesday as Guatemala's government accused Colombia's defense chief of crimes related to a high-stakes graft probe he once led as a special prosecutor in Guatemala.

Reuters

Colombia president backs defense minister accused by Guatemala

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Monday he would not accept any "order for the arrest" of his defense minister after a Guatemalan prosecutor accused the official of illegal acts.

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