The Latest Breaking News from Guatemala

Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei reappointed the country's attorney general to a new term on Monday, prompting U.S. sanctions, just months after the prosecutor was accused by the U.S. government of dismantling anti-corruption efforts.

The U.S. government has sanctioned Guatemalan Attorney General Maria Porras over accusations of "involvement in significant corruption," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday.

Guatemala’s president has appointed the controversial attorney general to a second term in a move disappointing to many Guatemalans and foreign governments critical of her backsliding on corruption investigations

A Guatemala judge who last week ordered nine former police and military officers to stand trial for alleged crimes during that country’s civil war, says that death threats against him had increased since announcing his decision

Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has started a lightning, five-day tour to four Central American countries and Cuba, stopping first in neighboring Guatemala

Across swathe of United States women will have same reproductive rights as those in Guatemala

The area near the Guatemalan border where the discovery was made is plagued by violent smuggling gangs, so an investigation was quickly launched to find out how the remains had ended up there

A KKL-JNF delegation met with the Guatemalan president to discuss water management and development in desert areas of his country. 

The family of Emil Bustamante López has filed a case with the UN human rights committee, looking for answers

Britain’s refugee deal with Rwanda is just the latest example of how rich nations extend their sovereignty by getting the poor to do their bidding

Once the envy of Central America for anticorruption efforts that took down a sitting president, Guatemala’s attorney general’s office has more recently been accused of blocking corruption investigations, protecting powerful interests and persecuting those who pursued the corrupt