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Bernardo Arevalo is currently struggling to deal with legal challenges before taking over the office on Jan. 14.

Guatemala is going through a democratic crisis, with the current administration trying to block President-elect Bernardo Arévalo from taking over the office next month.

The Guatemalan prosecutor's office said Friday elections which yielded a victory for anti-graft candidate Bernardo Arevalo were "null and void," prompting a regional grouping to exhort judicial authorities to desist from an "attempted coup d'etat."

Authorities believe Nancy Ng drowned on a kayaking trip. Family members say that theory doesn’t add up. Amelia Neath reports

The giant structure is 5,249ft (1,600m) tall and covers 14 square km

In Guatemala, prosecutors move against President-elect Bernardo Arevalo, as the slow motion coup he predicted begins to pick up pace.

Five low-ranked tennis players — four from Mexico and one from Guatemala — have been suspended for corruption linked to a match-fixing syndicate in Belgium

Authorities believe Nancy Ng drowned on a kayaking trip. Family members say that theory doesn’t add up. Amelia Neath reports

People in Mexico’s southernmost state, Chiapas, have for the last year and a half, been living through a conflict between rival criminal groups. The Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco Nueva Generacion Cartel are both vying for control of the territory. The state, which borders Guatemala, has long been a hotspot…

Bernardo Arévalo, who won the Guatemalan presidency by a landslide, says what is happening in his country is a "coup in slow motion."

An acclaimed new voice in experimental music, the Guatemalan cellist swapped scaling literal and creative peaks for a more exploratory mindset, finding community and fertile collaborations in Mexico City’s improv scene