As the United States government works to effectively extend its border security objectives south into Central America, countries like Guatemala have come under renewed scrutiny and pressure to step up their own border enforcement.

Hours before dawn, Julio Arrivillaga and Catalina Pérez Molina boarded a bus with other residents in the center of the humble village of Santo Domingo Los Ocotes in Guatemala for what should have been an hour-long ride to Guatemala’s capital.

At least 55 people are dead after their bus plunged into a gorge Monday on the outskirts of Guatemala’s capital.

Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo says his country will accept migrants from other countries who are being deported from the United States.

Kamala Harris has hinted that she wants to stay involved in politics and foreign affairs after leaving the vice president's office, but she hasn't disclosed any plans so far.

When Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora returned to his home last week after more than two years in prison without a conviction, he found it empty.

The family of a Guatemalan journalist has celebrated his transfer to house arrest following his jailing for over two years amid his newspaper’s anti-corruption investigations.

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The United States government says it has secured the release of 135 Nicaraguan political prisoners who have arrived in Guatemala.

Guatemalan police have arrested seven Guatemalans accused of having smuggled 53 migrants from Mexico and Central America who died of asphyxiation in 2022 in Texas after being abandoned in a tractor trailer in the scorching summer heat.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has thanked Guatemala for helping nearly 600 Mexicans who have crossed into Guatemala to escape drug cartel violence.

Catholic Church leaders in southern Mexico have made a desperate plea for the Mexican government to protect communities from drug cartels that extract protection payments and use locals as human shields near the border with Guatemala.

Nearly six months into his administration Guatemala President Bernardo Arévalo says opposition in the Congress and the Attorney General’s Office have made it difficult to implement the change he seeks for the Central American nation that he says he found “semi-destroyed.”.

Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Guatemala President Bernardo Arévalo were meeting Friday in this Mexican border city to tackle issues of shared interest, foremost among them immigration.

The aid group Save the Children says there is no evidence to support accusations of misconduct after Guatemalan prosecutors raided its offices looking for evidence of alleged abuse of migrant children.

The White House says President Joe Biden discussed migration with President Bernardo Arévalo of Guatemala after the Central American leader held similar talks with Vice President Kamala Harris.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says that a Texas law giving state authorities the power to arrest and deport migrants who have entered the country illegally is unconstitutional.

Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo says that with his political party suspended, little support in congress and an attorney general in hot pursuit, he will appeal to the people to help him overcome the entrenched old guard and achieve the change he campaigned on.

The U.S. State Department has barred former Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei from entering the United States, accusing him “significant corruption” just- three days after he left office.

Despite having the support of millions of Guatemalans, newly installed President Bernardo Arévalo has a clear obstacle — the attorney general’s office and its leader, Consuelo Porras.

Bernardo Arévalo has been sworn in as Guatemala’s new president.

Guatemala’s new president has huge challenges to address now that he's finally been sworn into office.

Bernardo Arévalo has been sworn in as Guatemala’s president despite months of efforts to derail his inauguration, including foot-dragging and rising tensions right up until the transfer of power.

Guatemalan President-elect Bernardo Arévalo’s imminent inauguration and the unrelenting pursuit of him and his party by the Attorney General are recurring topics over dinner tables in this country, reflecting a political awakening in a population weary of corruption.

Guatemala has arrested its former interior minister for allegedly not carrying out his duties when he opted for dialogue with protesters rather than using force to remove them as a court had ordered.

Guatemala’s Attorney General’s office has formally requested that President-elect Bernardo Arévalo and his vice president be stripped of their immunity so it can investigate them for allegedly encouraging the student occupation of the country’s only public university.

Guatemala’s attorney general is calling for the government to act against largely peaceful protesters, which have taken to the streets for weeks demanding her resignation for what they say are clear attempts to undermine their nation’s democracy.

Guatemala's President-elect Bernardo Arévalo says he plans to call people into the streets next week to protest efforts to derail his presidency before he can take office.

Guatemala’s top electoral authority says that it has blocked the suspension of President-elect Bernardo Arévalo’s Seed Movement, at least temporarily giving the party back its legal status and cutting off an attempt by rials to weaken Arévalo.

Bernardo Arévalo’s experience in peacebuilding and diplomacy eminently qualify him to lead Guatemala as the conflict-riven country’s next president, those who know him say.

The Guatemalan government’s clumsy interference with its presidential election has turned a global spotlight on a country whose struggles with deep corruption previously received little international notice.

Guatemala sank deeper into political turmoil as prosecutors targeted a progressive presidential candidate who proved to be surprisingly popular.

The struggle to certify the results of Guatemala's first-round presidential elections has suffered another setback, after the chief justice of the Supreme Court issued an order blocking the certification.

A week after Guatemala’s June 25 elections boosted a relative long-shot candidate into the final second round of voting, the country’s top court has frozen certification of the election results.

Bernardo Arévalo, the surprise of the first round of voting in Guatemala, says the choice in the Aug. 20 presidential runoff is a clear one: Continue living under a corrupt system with his rival or rebuild the country’s democracy with him.

Guatemalans have sent two presidential candidates from opposite sides of the political spectrum to an Aug. 20 runoff, giving hope to many disenchanted voters that change may be possible.