The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recently issued a travel warning for 14 Latin American nations and Caribbean territories that have exposed to Zika virus, a mosquito-borne virus connected to the increasing rate of birth defects in Brazil. The alert was issued late Friday and it includes Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Suriname, Venezuela and Puerto Rico.
Jimmy Morales, a comedian turned politician, was inaugurated as President of Guatemala on Jan. 14. Jimmy Morales, a comedian turned politician, was inaugurated president of Guatemala on Jan.
It has been three months since Cuban migrants in the Costa Rica border, who are trying to find greener pastures in the U.S., have finally been flown to El Salvador. Reports say that the first group, which consists of 180 migrants from Central America, will also be traveling by bus to Guatemala.
Central American countries El Salvador and Guatemala are hyper aware of the U.S. government's rising deportation campaign. Authorities from both countries took to the web to reach immigrants in danger of being targeted, telling them to be cautious in the following weeks as the country cracks down on foreign families in the country illegally.
Inundated with thousands of Cuban migrants trying to make their ways to the United States, Central American nations have agreed upon a program which will allow Cubans stranded in Costa Rica to reach their U.S destination.
Obama Administration plans to deport hundreds of Central American families U. S. President Barack Obama is now receiving criticism from immigration advocates as the government announced its intention to deport Central American families.
Steven Spielberg's foundation will be collecting genocide stores after Nazi Holohcaust. Steven Spielberg 's Shoah foundation will be working in Latin America for the first time as they gathered 52,000 accounts from the Nazi Holocaust which include genocides in Armenia from 1915 to 1923, Rwanda in 1994, and the Nanking Massacre in China back in 1937.
Helen Lopez Roblero, a former beauty queen of Guatemala, was shot dead in a tragic incident just before Christmas. She and her friends -- a woman and two men -- were enjoying a car ride when suddenly a gun yielding man opened fire on them on Dec. 17.
A new federal immigration initiative allows certain children from violence-torn Central American countries to reunite with their parents, even though the adults may not have legal status in the United States.
Underage marriage is now banned in Guatemala. Underage marriage is now banned in Guatemala. As reported by Reuters, the new law, which was approved in Congress by a vote of 87-15, raises the age a Guatemalan girl can marry from 14 to 18.
Jimmy Morales, a former TV comedian with no experience in government, has proven that his bid for the Guatemalan presidency was no joke by winning the run-off vote against ex-first lady Sandra Torres
In a deadly show of mob justice, the recently elected mayor of a town in western Guatemala has been lynched by a group of locals, who blamed him for ordering an attack on the previous mayor.
Guatemalan President Alejandro Maldonado announced Wednesday that his government will build homes for people who lost their houses in a devastating mudslide on Oct. 1.
Thursday’s landslide in Guatemala has so far led to 73 deaths. Thursday’s landslide in Guatemala has so far led to 73 deaths. The BBC reports that aside from the people that were killed when a hillside collapsed on houses in the village of El Cambray, 350 people are still considered missing.
It now looks as the former first lady will stand against Morales in a presidential run-off election in October. As reported by the BBC the electoral authorities have ruled that Torres was runner-up in the first round of the election, narrowly beating out Baldizon.
One week after he stepped down from office, was arrested and then jailed, former Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina has been directed to stand trial on corruption charges.
Guatemala's next president will be determined in a runoff election, after none of the three leading candidates logged the required majority of votes in Sunday's election.
Last night Otto Pérez Molina, the former president of Guatemala, spent his first night in prison. Last night Otto Pérez Molina, the former president of Guatemala, spent his first night in prison.
