Guatemala

Mexico limits non-essential travel on southern border

March 26, 2021 The Associated Press

CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico — The Mexican banks of the Suchiate river dawned Sunday with a heavy presence of immigration agents in place to enforce Mexico’s new limits on all but essential travel at its shared […]

Biden ending deals with Central America restricting asylum

February 12, 2021 Sonia Perez, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden administration is withdrawing the U.S. from agreements with three Central American countries that restricted the ability of people to seek asylum at the southwest border, part of a broad effort […]

Honduran migrants trek north toward Guatemalan border

January 15, 2021 Maria Verza, Associated Press

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — Hundreds of migrants hoping to reach the U.S. border gathered outside a bus station in this Honduran city Thursday despite continued signs from Mexico and other Central American governments that […]

Guatemala condemns fire at Congress; 12 injured in protests

November 22, 2020 Sonia Perez, Associated Press

GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemala’s government called fires set by protesters at Congress “terrorist acts” while the Inter-American Human Rights Commission on Sunday condemned what it called an “excessive use of force” by police against demonstrators […]

Hundreds of Honduran migrants set out for US amid pandemic

October 2, 2020 Claudio Escalon and Sonia Perez, Associated Press

CORINTO, Honduras — About 2,000 Honduran migrants hoping to reach the United States entered Guatemala on foot Thursday morning, testing the newly reopened frontier that had been shut by the coronavirus pandemic. Authorities had planned […]

In the shadow of Fuego

June 13, 2018 North State Journal Staff

NSJ’s Shawn Krest had months-long plans to travel to Guatemala to help his daughter settle in for a summer of teaching English through a service project organized by Raleigh’s Temple Beth Or. Little did they […]