Guatemala

The United States government announced on Thursday that it has secured the release of 135 Nicaraguan political prisoners who would be sent initially to Guatemala.

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The Garifuna community is working to increase their visibility and preserve their history, as part of the fabric of Central America and Black History.

Present day, the Garifuna people are known as the Black Indigenous people of Central America, but researchers believe their history began in the 1600s with a shipwreck and an escape from enslavement.

A man who spent years on the run from the FBI amid an international manhunt on charges he embezzled $10 million from a New Hampshire investment firm has pleaded guilty, prosecutors said Tuesday.

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

Outsider Bernardo Arévalo appeared to be the “virtual winner” of Sunday’s election to be Guatemala’s next president.

Guatemalans have begun voting to elect a new president, hoping that the country’s next leader will provide relief from rising prices and get a handle on crime and corruption.

Officials say an unaccompanied 15-year-old migrant girl from Guatemala died from an underlying disease while in federal custody.

A federal investigation into Guatemalan children working in the U.S. in violation of child labor laws has expanded to include meatpacking and produce firms that have allegedly hired underage migrants in at least 11 states, two senior U.S. officials told NBC News. Investigators from the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations and the Justice Department, as well as White House officials, are participating in the expanded...