TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities have detained a Guatemalan man wanted by the United States for allegedly participating in the importation of precursor chemicals used by the Sinaloa cartel to make fentanyl, officials said Monday. Immigration authorities stopped Jason Antonio Yang
Guatemalan police on Thursday arrested the country’s 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. Police arrested Napoléon Barrientos at his
The sudden resignation of a Guatemalan Cabinet minister appears to signal a division within the administration of President Alejandro Giammattei over how to remove roadblocks by pro-democracy protesters that have stretched into a third week. Interior Minister Napoleón Barrientos, a retired brigadier
One person died and at least two more were injured by gunshots near a pro-democracy demonstration in Guatemala on Monday, local authorities said. Victor Gomez, spokesman for the volunteer firemen in Malacatan, near the border with Mexico, said it was not clear
Two Guatemalan migrants were killed and three others — along with a Honduran man — were wounded in a shooting in northern Mexico near the U.S. border that apparently involved Mexican army soldiers. Prosecutors in the northern state of Chihuahua said the
Guatemala’s prosecutor for electoral crimes has asked the Supreme Court of Justice to strip five magistrates of the country’s top electoral authority of their immunity so they can be investigated on fraud allegations made by the loser of the Aug. 20 presidential
Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei called Tuesday for a democratic transition of power to anti-corruption campaigner and president-elect Bernardo Arévalo and his Seed Movement party, which have faced waves legal attacks in attempts to invalidate his rise to power. The president’s statement came
The party of former first lady Sandra Torres, who lost Guatemala’s presidential elections this week, filed a complaint Friday alleging fraud in the way the votes were counted. Torres, a candidate who came to exemplify the political establishment in a country that’s
Guatemala’s Bernardo Arévalo was resoundingly elected to be the country’s next president Sunday, but a legal case could prevent him from assuming power in the corruption-plagued Central American country. With 100% of votes counted, preliminary results gave Arévalo 58% of the vote
Guatemalan authorities on Friday raided offices belonging to Movimiento Semilla (Seed Movement), a leftist political party, over alleged improprieties in its formation. Semilla’s presidential candidate, Bernardo Arévalo, advanced to the August 20 runoff election after a strong first-round showing in June. He