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Guatemalan authorities have reported that 12 people were killed in the village of Chiquix, 155km east of the capital, where a long-running land dispute has sparked conflicts between the residents of two municipalities. The victims include women and three children, authorities said on Saturday. One police officer was also killed during the armed confrontation, while […]
Mexico formulated a multi-nation working group to look into people-smuggling in the wake of the truck crash that resulted in the deaths of at least 54 people, the majority said to be Central American migrants. Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said the group would be made up of Mexico, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador and the […]
Authorities discovered an apparent stowaway on Saturday in the landing gear of a flight from Guatemala at the Miami International Airport, local and federal officials said. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the airport apprehended a 26-year-old man who “attempted to evade detection in the landing gear compartment of an aircraft,” a CBP […]
Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala have agreed to deploy troops at their borders to slow down the movement of migrants trying to get into the United States, a Biden administration official said on Monday. “We’ve secured agreements for them to put more troops on their own border,” Tyler Moran, a special assistant to President Joe Biden […]
US President-elect Joe Biden is considering plan that would shield more than a million immigrants from Honduras and Guatemala from deportation after they were battled by hurricanes. Biden’s transition team team is weighing whether to grant them Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The programme allows people already in the United States at the time of the […]
Reeling under the destruction after Hurricane Eta, Honduras and Guatemala are bracing for another tropical storm to hit the region. A statement on from the United States-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned that Tropical Storm Iota was expected to strengthen, bringing “dangerous winds, storm surge and rainfall” to Central America starting on Monday. “Iota is […]
At least 150 people have died in Guatemala after dozens were buried by mudslides triggered by Storm Eta’s torrential rains. President Alejandro Giammattei said around 100 people were feared dead in Quejá in the central region of Alta Verapaz. Bad weather has hampered rescue efforts while roads are still blocked and large areas remain flooded. […]