Video shows Ice agents smashing car window to detain asylum seeker
Lawyer says officials were looking for someone else while taking Juan Francisco Mendez in Massachusetts on Monday A Massachusetts family is demanding answers from US...
Category : Guatemala
‘Strong eruption’ of volcano in Guatemala forces evacuations
Residents sought safety in temporary shelter after Fuego volcano spewed lava, ash and rocks Guatemalan authorities have evacuated about a thousand people after Central America’s...
At least 55 dead in Guatemala after bus plunges from highway bridge
Vehicle headed toward capital city fell 20 metres into polluted ravine, leaving people trapped in wreckage At least 55 people have died after a bus...
Rubio to visit Central America with migration and Panama canal on agenda
US secretary of state to visit region amid concern over Trump threat to ‘take back’ canal and tensions over China Marco Rubio, the US secretary...
Weather tracker: Tropical Storm Sara and Super Typhoon Man-yi wreak havoc
Powerful storm systems bring heavy rainfall, widespread flooding and landslides to Central America and Asia Tropical Storm Sara has caused significant disruption across Central America...
Global health charities warn of ‘huge and terrible’ threat to abortion rights if Trump returns
‘Global gag rule’ and funding cuts will be ‘on different scale’ if Republicans win again, family-planning providers say Providers of women’s healthcare around the world...
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 The Mexican state of Chiapas was once a...
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 Cocaine consumption is threatening rare tropical birds as...
Brazil and Colombia voice concern as Venezuela bans opposition candidate
South American neighbours respond to blocking of Corina Yoris, who was favoured to beat strongman Nicolás Maduro in elections A chorus of Latin American nations,...
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 Thousands of protestors have blocked roads across Guatemala in surging...
