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Migrant back home after 7 years in Mexico jail unsentenced

An Indigenous migrant who was accused of kidnapping and jailed in a northern Mexico border city has returned to her homeland of Guatemala as a free woman after spending more than seven years in prison without a sentence

The Independent UK

Mexico’s migrant checks on buses and highways ruled racist and illegal

Landmark ruling follows case of three young Indigenous Mexicans detained and abused on suspicion of being Guatemalan migrants

The Guardian - US

Drunk reveller shoots DJ dead when he refused to play his song request

A drunk reveller in Guatemala has shot and killed Edwin Villafuerte, also known as DJ Pollito, at a disco night when he refused to play the song he requested

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Guatemalan congress approves $500 million loan from World Bank

Guatemala's congress approved on Wednesday a $500 million loan from the World Bank that the government has said will be used to pay down debt, freeing up funds for social spending.

Reuters

Guatemala president says won't attend U.S. summit after political tension

Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei said on Tuesday he would not attend next month's Summit of the Americas, a day after the United States criticized the Central American country for appointing its attorney general to serve another term.

Reuters

Guatemala leader won't attend summit in US after US critique

Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei says he will not attend the Summit of the Americas next month in Los Angeles, following criticism from the Biden administration for reappointing an attorney general the U.S. accuses of protecting the corrupt

The Independent UK

Guatemalan prosecutor labeled corrupt by U.S. gets tapped for new term

Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei reappointed the country's attorney general to a new term on Monday, prompting U.S. sanctions, just months after the prosecutor was accused by the U.S. government of dismantling anti-corruption efforts.

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U.S. sanctions Guatemala's attorney general over accusations of corruption

The U.S. government has sanctioned Guatemalan Attorney General Maria Porras over accusations of "involvement in significant corruption," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday.

Reuters

Guatemala reappoints criticized attorney general to 2nd term

Guatemala’s president has appointed the controversial attorney general to a second term in a move disappointing to many Guatemalans and foreign governments critical of her backsliding on corruption investigations

The Independent UK

Guatemala judge threatened after decision on civil war crime

A Guatemala judge who last week ordered nine former police and military officers to stand trial for alleged crimes during that country’s civil war, says that death threats against him had increased since announcing his decision

The Independent UK

Mexico's president starts regional tour in Guatemala

Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has started a lightning, five-day tour to four Central American countries and Cuba, stopping first in neighboring Guatemala

The Independent UK

Arkansas’s top law official defends banning abortion even in cases of incest and rape of minors

Across swathe of United States women will have same reproductive rights as those in Guatemala

The Independent UK

Pile of 150 female skulls found in cave were human sacrifices decapitated in ritual

The area near the Guatemalan border where the discovery was made is plagued by violent smuggling gangs, so an investigation was quickly launched to find out how the remains had ended up there

Daily Mirror

Guatemala Seeks To Tap Israeli Expertise In Water Knowledge, Technology

A KKL-JNF delegation met with the Guatemalan president to discuss water management and development in desert areas of his country.

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The Guardian - US

Disappeared: a daughter’s 40-year search for her father, taken by Guatemala’s military dictatorship

The family of Emil Bustamante López has filed a case with the UN human rights committee, looking for answers

The Guardian - UK

In this new age of empire, the west has no need to conquer. Money and coercion do the job

Britain’s refugee deal with Rwanda is just the latest example of how rich nations extend their sovereignty by getting the poor to do their bidding

The Independent UK

Guatemala's much-criticized top prosecutor seeks 2nd term

Once the envy of Central America for anticorruption efforts that took down a sitting president, Guatemala’s attorney general’s office has more recently been accused of blocking corruption investigations, protecting powerful interests and persecuting those who pursued the corrupt

Daily Mirror

Thug stabs man to death as he speaks to brother on FaceTime in random attack

Sergio Santay, 34, was speaking to his brother Douglas on FaceTime when he was stabbed to death by a stranger in a random attack in downtown Los Angeles, US

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Earliest evidence of Maya calendar found inside Guatemalan pyramid

A glyph representing a day called "7 Deer" on mural fragments dating from the third century BC found inside the ruins of a pyramid in Guatemala marks the earliest-known use of the Maya calendar, one of this ancient culture's renowned achievements.

Salon

Neocon war hawks: They're back!

The warmongering buffoons who drove the U.S. to disaster in Iraq and Afghanistan are now eager for war with Russia

Zenger

Lost World: Ancient Underwater City Revealed

The city is located at the bottom of Lake Atitlan, in the Solola Department, near the town of Panajachel.

The Independent UK

Skepticism meets migrant smuggler crackdown in Guatemala

Guatemala has tripled prison sentences for migrant smugglers, eager to show it’s trying to slow the steady flow of its people north to the United States

Reuters

Guatemala expects more migration after U.S. expulsion policy ends

Guatemala's government expects the number of Guatemalans seeking to migrate to rise after the U.S. government ends its Title 42 expulsion policy, officials said on Friday.

Reuters

Guatemala's Supreme Court suspends senior anti-corruption judge

Guatemala's Supreme Court of Justice said on Tuesday it has suspended Judge Pablo Xitumul, who is known for his fight against corruption and handling high-profile cases against the military and former government officials.

Reuters

Guatemala detains dozens of migrants, mostly Cubans, in boats heading to U.S.

Guatemala's migration institute said on Tuesday it found two boats transporting 50 Cuban migrants and two Honduran migrants trying to reach the United States illegally by sea.

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