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At least 28 are dead as Julia drenches Central America with rainfall

Now a tropical depression, former Hurricane Julia drenched Guatemala and El Salvador with torrential rains Monday after it reemerged in the Pacific following a pounding of Nicaragua.

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Storm Julia kills 25 in Central America as it churns toward Mexico

The death toll from storm Julia rose to at least 25 on Monday, officials said, with most victims in El Salvador and Guatemala, as the weakening storm dumped heavy rain on a swath of Central America and southern Mexico.

Reuters

Tropical Storm Julia drenches Central America with rainfall

Tropical Storm Julia is drenching Guatemala and El Salvador with torrential rains after reemerging in the Pacific

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U.S. IRS identifies 79 tax fugitives in Mexico, neighbors

The Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigation unit said on Thursday it has located 79 tax evasion fugitives in Mexico, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras in the first year of a new extradition initiative.

Reuters

Indonesia: At least 131 dead after riot breaks out at football match

Saturday’s game is already among the world’s worst crowd disasters, including the 1996 World Cup qualifier between Guatemala and Costa Rica in Guatemala City where more than 80 died

Evening Standard

'Great alternative' Luis Sinisterra hailed after Leeds United winger impresses for Colombia

Sinisterra scored his first Colombia goal on his sixth cap in a 4-1 win over Guatemala on Sunday.

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Tragic photo shows child migrants from Guatemala at US border alone with phone numbers written on shirt

Recent controversial migrant transport schemes from Florida and Texas governors have uprooted young border-crossers

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Horrific stampede at Guatemala music festival kills nine including two children

Six people were injured at the outdoor festival in the western Guatemalan city of Quetzaltenango and transferred to hospital after suffering fractures -with witnesses at the scene saying the venue only had two exits

Daily Mirror

Gaby Moreno is making music on her terms

The L.A.-based artist will embark on a big tour of Europe. She'll be doing 28 shows in six weeks, covering 11 countries, including Germany, The Netherlands, Spain and Ireland.

WEKU

At least 9 dead in stampede at concert in Guatemala

At least nine people have died and some 20 were injured in a stampede in Guatemala early Thursday as the country celebrated its independence

The Independent UK

A Question of Standing review: how the CIA undermined American authority

Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones has written a concise account of damage done by US covert operations from the Iran coup to the Iraq war

The Guardian - US

Axios in Guatemala: Inside U.S. efforts to stop human smuggling

The U.S. supports groups of vetted foreign police in taking down cartels, visa frauds and smuggling networks.

Axios

‘Tale of two borders’: how a US Covid-era rule shapes fate of migrants

Title 42 bans all migrants from entering the country over spread of Covid – but the rule is largely enforced against Mexicans and people from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador

The Guardian - US

Guatemala, Taiwan agree to boost diplomatic cooperation, training

Taiwan and Guatemala have signed an agreement to boost diplomatic cooperation and reaffirmed mutual support during a visit by the Central American country's foreign minister to the Asian island, the Guatemalan government said on Thursday.

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Top corruption prosecutor held in jail as Guatemalan elite bids to purge foes

Virginia Laparra detained in conditions ‘bordering on torture’, which supporters say is retaliation for her efforts to fight corruption

Radio France Internationale

Behind bars: Latin America women prisons as seen by Ana Maria Arévalo

Photographer Ana Maria Arévalo "Dias Eternos" focuses on the condition in detention centers and jails for women in Venezuela, El Salvador and Guatemala.

Los Angeles Times

Many US Guatemalans waiting for passports are ‘doubly undocumented,’ and angry

LOS ANGELES — Rafael González speaks nervously, overwhelmed with frustration and unease.

Reuters

Guatemala support for Taiwan will not stop 'reunification' of China and Taiwan, says China

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Guatemala pledges support for Taiwan, China accuses island of 'political manipulation'

Guatemalan Foreign Minister Mario Bucaro said on Tuesday that the Central American country will "always support" Taiwan, after China conducted its largest-ever military drills around the self-ruled island earlier this month.

Daily Mirror

Kidnappers burned alive by a vigilante mob after boy, 11, killed despite £11k ransom

Smoke rose through the canopy of a Guatemalan jungle village as a group of revenge-driven locals burned to death three kidnappers who shot dead their 10-year-old hostage and dumped him in a septic tank - despite the parents paying their ransom

The Independent UK

Guatemala follows money in migrant smuggling investigations

Guatemalan investigators raided the home of the alleged leader of a migrant smuggling ring tucked into mountains near the Mexican border in January and found some $51,000 in coins, nearly 100 slot machines and late-model vehicles purchased with cash

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4 places to discover the Mayan world in Mexico and Central America

Mexico, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are celebrating three decades of founding the Mayan World Organization (Organización Mundo Maya), which focuses on improving the quality of life of the region's residents through sustainable tourism policies.

The Independent UK

Guatemalans march in protest of corruption, cost of living

Hundreds of Guatemalans set out from various points of the capital to protest alleged corruption by a deeply unpopular government, the high cost of living and attacks on freedom of expression

The Independent UK

Guatemalan journalist calls charges against him a 'set-up'

A prominent Guatemalan journalist’s initial hearing before a judge has been suspended after the judge announced that the journalist’s lawyers were also targets of the government’s investigation

The Independent UK

Guatemala arrests migrant smugglers wanted by the US

Guatemalan authorities have arrested more than a dozen alleged members of a migrant smuggling network near the shared border with Mexico, including four sought by the United States in connection with the death of a migrant in Texas in 2021

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