Mexico's president downplays cartel violence that drove nearly 600 Mexicans into Guatemala

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador thanked Guatemala on Friday for helping the nearly 600 Mexicans who have crossed into Guatemala to escape drug cartel violence, but also minimized the violence that drove them there. In his first comments since the...

Mexicans seeking refuge in Guatemala describe drug cartel shootouts that drove them to flee

AMPLIACION NUEVA REFORMA, Guatemala (AP) — When a 72-year-old Mexican farmer heard the bullets from the most recent cartel shootout landing close to his home, he knew it was time to go. He collected his children and grandchildren and fled on foot across the border to Guatemala. ...

Authorities say 600 Mexicans have crossed into Guatemala to escape drug cartel violence

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Nearly 600 Mexicans have fled across the border from Mexico into Guatemala seeking refuge from drug cartel violence, Guatemalan authorities said Wednesday. Guatemala President Bernardo Arévalo said that his administration was coordinating with the local...

Nearly 600 Mexicans flee drug cartel violence to seek refuge in neighboring Guatemala

A group of 2,000 migrants advance through southern Mexico in hopes of reaching the US

TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — A group of 2,000 migrants from dozens of countries set out on foot Tuesday through southern Mexico as they attempt to reach the U.S., although recent similar attempts have failed, with groups disbanding after a few days without leaving the region. Several...

Guatemalan family seeks return of relative's body more than a decade after he disappeared in Mexico

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Nearly a decade after Guatemalan authorities were told that Mexico had sent the wrong body to a Guatemalan family searching for their missing teenage relative, that unidentified body is still buried in Guatemala and the family’s relative is lying in a Mexico City morgue. ...

Mexican president says a fight over drug and migrant trafficking was behind the massacre of 19

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president said Tuesday a fight between gangs over drug and migrant trafficking routes was behind the massacre of 19 men in the southern state of Chiapas. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the killings were part of a long-running dispute...

Authorities find 19 bodies piled in a dump truck in a cartel-dominated area of southern Mexico

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities said Monday they have found 19 bodies piled in and around a dump truck in a cartel-dominated area of southern Mexico, near the border with Guatemala. The federal public safety department said the men's bodies were found in a truck abandoned on a...

Guatemala appeals court revokes judge's order to give house arrest to renowned journalist José Rubén Zamora

Massive displacement latest sign of fear in Mexican state disputed by cartels

TILA, Mexico (AP) — It was night when residents of this remote town began to hear gunshots. Then came the sounds of trucks and the voices of men discussing which houses to burn. Flames began to leap around Tila, a town of about 10,000 people living along steep streets surrounded by...