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Mexican army sends troops, helicopters, convoys in to towns cut off by drug cartels
TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s armed forces sent troops, vehicle convoys and helicopters into remote towns near the southern border with Guatemala on Wednesday after drug cartels blocked roads and cut off electricity in some areas over the weekend. The drug cartels have taken...
At least 6 people are dead and 12 missing after flash flood in Guatemala sweeps homes into river
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Heavy rains caused a flash flood in Guatemala’s capital early Monday sweeping several humble homes into a river and leaving at least six people dead and 12 missing, including 10 minors. Guatemala's National Disaster Reduction Coordinator said in a statement...
Guatemalans rally on behalf of president-elect, demonstrating a will to defend democracy
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Protests by thousands of Guatemalans this week supporting President-elect Bernardo Arévalo suggest that the efforts by some officials to derail his presidency have awakened a new will among many citizens to defend democracy. Public displays rejecting...
Supporters of Guatemala's president-elect block highways and roads to protest prosecution
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Thousands of farmers and Indigenous supporters on Tuesday blocked roads and streets in Guatemala to defend the president-elect as government prosecutors seek to ban his political party. Protests organized by the Farmworkers' Development Council set up about 14...
Migrants burst into southern Mexico asylum office demanding papers
TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Migrants, mostly from Haiti, burst into an asylum office in southern Mexico on Monday, demanding papers. Throngs of migrants knocked over metal barricades and rushed into the office in the city of Tapachula, pushing past National Guard officers and police...
Indigenous supporters march to defend Guatemala's president-elect amid vote fraud allegations
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Thousands of indigenous supporters protested in Guatemala City on Monday to defend Guatemala’s president-elect as government prosecutors seek to ban his political party. Many of the protesters carried banners or chanted slogans demanding the resignation of...
Guatemala's president-elect says he's ready to call people onto the streets
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — President-elect Bernardo Arévalo plans to call Guatemalans into the streets next week to protest efforts to derail his presidency before he can take office, he said Friday in an interview with The Associated Press. It would be Arévalo's first such request...
Mexico on track to break asylum application record
TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Mexico is on track to receive more asylum applications this year than ever before as the flow of migrants threatens to overwhelm governments of several Latin American countries along the migratory route. Andrés Ramírez Silva, the director of Mexico’s...
Ex-Guatemala anti-corruption prosecutor granted asylum in US
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The United States government has granted asylum to Guatemala’s former lead anti-corruption prosecutor two years after he was fired and fled the country under threat of arrest. An internationally respected prosecutor, Juan Francisco Sandoval had participated...
Guatemala President-elect suspends transition after agents raid election facilities, open vote boxes
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan President-elect Bernardo Arévalo said Tuesday he was temporarily suspending the transition process and called for the resignation of the attorney general following raids on electoral facilities during which government agents opened boxes of votes and photographed...
