Guatemala authorities raid ultra-orthodox Jewish sect's compound after report of abuse

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan authorities searched the compound of an extremist ultra-orthodox Jewish sect Friday, taking at least 160 minors and 40 women into protective custody after reports of abuse. Interior Minister Francisco Jiménez said the National Civil Police and...

Mexico arrests more than 100 local police officers for various abuses and offenses

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in two states in southern Mexico arrested more than 100 local police officers Monday for various abuses and offenses, adding to the long list of police corruption scandals in the country. In the largest of the two incidents, 92 municipal police...

AP's top under-the-radar albums of 2024: Mabe Fratti, Arooj Aftab, Blood Incantation and more

NEW YORK (AP) — At the end of every year, when critics rush to compile their best of the year lists, great art inevitably gets overlooked. A top 10 list doesn't leave a lot of room for discovery and, in music, that sometimes means the most innovative records lose out to make room for other...

6 Guatemalans arrested and charged with human smuggling in deadly 2021 Mexico truck crash

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Six Guatemalans were arrested in Guatemala and in Texas Monday on human smuggling charges linked to a 2021 semitrailer truck crash in Mexico that killed more than 50 migrants, authorities said. The truck had been packed with at least 160 migrants, many of them...

A small migrant caravan sets out from southern Mexico but it's unlikely to reach the US border

TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — A small migrant caravan has set out from southern Mexico, heading north, but is unlikely to reach the U.S. border after authorities broke up two other small caravans headed to the United States over the weekend. About 1,500 migrants — mostly from...

Stripped of citizenship, these Nicaraguans live in limbo scattered across the world

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Sergio Mena's life dissolved in hours. After years resisting President Daniel Ortega, the rural activist fled Nicaragua in 2018, joining thousands of protesters fleeing a yearslong crackdown on dissent. Mena returned from exile in neighboring...

About 1,500 migrants form a new caravan in Mexico. Here's what it means

TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — About 1,500 migrants formed a new caravan Wednesday in southern Mexico, hoping to walk or catch rides to the U.S. border. The migrants are mainly from Central and South America. Some say they are hoping to reach the United States before Donald Trump’s inauguration in...

Guatemalan court overturns order that freed journalist José Rubén Zamora, orders his return to jail

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A Guatemalan appeals court on Friday overturned the order freeing journalist José Rubén Zamora and ordered his return to jail. Zamora, founder of El Periódico newspaper, had spent more than two years in jail awaiting trial before a judge granted him house...

Guatemala appeals court overturns order that freed journalist José Rubén Zamora and orders his return to jail

Regional court blames Guatemala for the disappearance of 4 human rights activists in 1989

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that the Guatemalan government was responsible for human rights violations in the disappearance of four Indigenous human rights activists in 1989. The men were “victims of forced disappearance by...