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Guatemala

July 2024

  • people stand in front of building as a dog walks by

    More than 500 Mexicans flee to Guatemala to escape cartel violence in Chiapas

    Chiapas, once a haven for Guatemalans fleeing genocide, sees citizens crossing border to escape tyranny of cartels
  • A girl wearing a white dress and angel's wings stands in a room with supernatural light coming through cracks in the ceiling.

    Film honours 41 ‘heroines’ lost in Guatemala children’s home fire

    As their families await justice, Jayro Bustamante’s movie, Rita, highlights the bravery of victims of 2017 blaze, and the authorities’ failure to protect them
  • Early morning, Lake Atitlán, Santiago Atitlán 2019

    Still waters run deep: Latin American Foto festival – in pictures

    From Quechua rappers to Peruvian ballet dancers, these images showcase the talents of emerging and established photographers from the region

June 2024

  • Saguaro cactus in desert with sun shining

    Deadly heat in Mexico and US made 35 times more likely by global heating

    Researchers find extreme heat four times more likely than at turn of millennium and urge reduction in fossil fuels
  • A small yellowish songbird perched on a log

    The age of extinction
    Rare birds at risk as narco-gangs move into forests to evade capture – report

    Cocaine traffickers have put two-thirds of Central America’s key habitats for threatened birds under threat, study finds
  • Three young Latino people in black and white.

    What the US asylum process is really like, in applicants’ own words: ‘I’ve waited 10 years’

    As Biden launches the strictest border crackdown of his presidency, five asylum seekers share their battles to secure protection in the US

May 2024

  • What Remains on the Way

    What Remains on the Way review – startling insight into the struggles of US border migrants

  • A baby awaiting adoption near Guatemala City. Photograph: Peter Casolino/Alamy

    The Audio Long Read
    Guatemala’s baby brokers: how thousands of children were stolen for adoption – podcast

  • Armando Espitia holding up two photographs to an unseen woman.

    Our Mothers review – intimate drama exploring the legacy of Guatemala’s bloody civil war

  • Our Mothers.

    Our Mothers review – moving drama about aftermath of unspeakable war violence

March 2024

  • Older Latina woman with dyed brown-red hair, patterned, dress, red lipstick, speaks into a microphone surrounded by people.

    Brazil and Colombia voice concern as Venezuela bans opposition candidate

    Nations respond to strongman Nicolás Maduro blocking María Corina Machado and now Corina Yoris from running against him

February 2024

  • Thelma Cabrera, de 52 años, quien encabeza el Movimiento para la Liberación de los Pueblos (MLP), un partido político que representa mayoritariamente a los pueblos indígenas de Guatemala, participa en un mitin politico en la plaza principal del centro de la Ciudad de Guatemala. Se postuló como candidata presidencial pero el Tribunal Supremo Electoral (TSE) decidió excluirla de la contienda electoral por supuestos problemas legales de su compañero de candidatura, Jordan Rodas. Guatemala City, Guatemala. June 22, 2023. On June 25, 2023, general elections will be held in Guatemala to elect the President and Vice President, the 160 members of Congress, the 20 members of the Central American Parliament and the local governments of 340 municipalities in the country.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘When have we ever had democracy?’: is Thelma Cabrera Guatemala’s most surprising politician?

    The Indigenous activist explains why the country’s ‘democratic spring’ is an illusion and why, despite violence and corruption, she would consider a third presidential bid

January 2024

  • Juan Alonso crying over his father's grave

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘He had a machete in his cheek’: how Guatemala’s hydropower dream turned deadly

  • Guatemalan President-elect Bernardo Arévalo arrives for a press conference with his ministerial cabinet, at the Miguel Angel Asturias Cultural Center in Guatemala City, Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. Arévalo will take office on Jan. 14. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

    Can Guatemala’s new president turn the tide on years of corruption?

  • John Dougherty

    A family link to a shadowy chapter in Guatemalan and US history – in pictures

  • A baby awaiting adoption near Guatemala City.

    The long read
    Guatemala’s baby brokers: how thousands of children were stolen for adoption

December 2023

  • ‘What happens afterwards will be a bellwether for Latin America, consequential not just for Guatemala, but for the entire region.’

    Will coupmongers stop Guatemala’s president from taking office?

    Will Freeman
    If Bernardo Arévalo is blocked from governing or ousted, it will be an ominous sign in a region where democracy is in peril

November 2023

  • ‘Her music is a continual opening of possibilities’ … Mabe Fratti

    ‘Doubt is exciting’: cellist Mabe Fratti on chaos, curiosity and climbing volcanoes

  • Workers clear snow on a street during a snowstorm on Monday in Harbin, Heilongjiang province.

    Weather tracker
    Weather Tracker: Unseasonal cold air brings widespread snowfall to China

October 2023

  • Protesters block the Inter-American highway in Totonicapán, Guatemala, on 6 October.

    Guatemala president-elect’s supporters block roads to protest party suspension

    Demonstrations surge after court upheld suspension of Bernardo Arévalo’s party over alleged voter registration fraud
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