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Taiwan Rejects China Pressure Ahead of House Speaker Meeting

Taiwan pushed back against threats of retaliation by China, ahead of an expected meeting between President Tsai-Ing-wen and the US House speaker Wednesday that will underscore her government's claim to sovereignty. Tsai has been visiting the island's remaining diplomatic allies in Latin America, Belize and Guatemala. The most politically sensitive…

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Belize, Guatemala reaffirm Taiwan ties during Tsai visit

Belize has reaffirmed its diplomatic ties with Taiwan, the second country to do so in a week as Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen travels across Central America in an effort to shore up a dwindling number of allies

The Independent UK

Taiwan strengthens ties with Guatemala following Honduras rupture

Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen completed a three-day trip to Guatemala on Sunday where she offered more cooperation with Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei's government, one of Taiwan's few allies in the world.

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Taiwan's president wraps up Guatemala visit, heads to Belize

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei have toured a hospital built with support from Taipei, reaffirming their close diplomatic ties as the self-governing island seeks to strengthen relations with its remaining allies in Central America

The Independent UK

Presidents of Taiwan and Guatemala reaffirm ties amid China pressure

Tsai Ing-wen meets with Alejandro Giammattei a few days after neighbouring Honduras switched diplomatic relations from Taipei to Beijing

The Guardian - AU

Presidents of Taiwan, Guatemala visit Mayan pyramid

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and the Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei have toured the archaeological site of Tikal during a trip by Tsai that aims to shore up the self-governing island’s ties with its remaining allies in Central America

The Independent UK

Taiwan leader scrambles for allies in Central America visit

As Taiwan’s diplomatic partners dwindle and turn instead to rival China, Taiwanese President President Tsai Ing-wen is aiming to shore up ties with the self-governing island’s remaining allies during a trip this week to Central America

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Factbox-Relations between Taiwan and the United States

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen arrived in New York on Wednesday on what is officially called a transit on her way to Guatemala and Belize, and will be stopping in Los Angeles on her way back to Taipei next month.

Reuters

LA activists call for justice in condemning the deaths of 39 immigrants in Ciudad Juarez

LOS ANGELES — Grief mixed with indignation is churning into fury among many Central American activists in Los Angeles this week as they pored over images of the Monday night inferno that engulfed Mexico’s National Migration Institute in Ciudad Juarez, killing at least 39 immigrant detainees.

Los Angeles Times

Veteran Oscar Sevilla keeps on winning at the age of 46

2001 Vuelta a España podium finisher takes first 2023 victory in Guatemalan stage race

Cycling News

Guatemala sets lineup for presidential vote as critics slam disqualifications

Guatemala's presidential race kicked off on Monday, a day after the electoral authority finalized its approved candidate lineup for the June election, even as critics blasted decisions to disqualify some candidates while allowing others to run.

Reuters

Guatemala seeks to remove opposition candidate's immunity

A government prosecutor in Guatemala has asked a court to lift the immunity of one of the candidates in the country's June presidential elections, because the candidate asked about a judge's motive in prosecuting journalists

The Independent UK

‘We all have the right to choose’: Guatemalans in US will help select next president

LOS ANGELES — Four years ago, when Alejandro Giammattei was elected president of Guatemala, immigrants living in the United States were able to vote for the first time. In that experimental election, 734 votes were counted among the four polling stations that were installed in Los Angeles, Houston, New York…

Los Angeles Times

Indigenous farmworker leader bids for Guatemala presidency

An Indigenous female farmworker leader hopes to become Guatemala's next president

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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…

Reuters

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.

The Independent UK

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

The Guardian - UK

Luis Cuevas obituary

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

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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

Daily Mirror

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

WEKU

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."

The Independent UK

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

Daily Mirror

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

Reuters

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.

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