Canan fled his hometown of Zacapa, Guatemala, for the United States when he was 16 years old to escape criminal violence. "He suffered some sort of attack by local criminals in his town when he ...

Mining is at the center of a campaign of repression and violence targeting environmentalists and human rights defenders in Guatemala. The government is violently quashing opposition, and foreign ...

Guatemala is stepping up its military presence at the Mexican border in response to escalating cartel violence. President ...

GUATEMALA CITY — Nearly 600 Mexicans have fled across the border from Mexico into Guatemala seeking refuge from drug cartel violence, Guatemalan authorities said Wednesday.

Guatemala, nestled in Central America ... Haiti’s ongoing instability, marked by gang violence and poverty, and Cuba’s deepening financial crisis have driven thousands to seek refuge in the U.S. Also ...

is a dangerous business and is compounded when entrenched political elites become tied up with criminal actors experienced in violence. Despite this, the upcoming elections in Guatemala and ...

OCOS, Guatemala (AP) — As the United States government works to effectively extend its border security objectives south into Central America, countries like Guatemala have come under renewed ...

Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country of striking geographical features, including active volcanoes, and a strong indigenous culture – as well as crushing poverty, violence and ...

The most vulnerable, namely women and children, are often the first to flee violence. In 2014 ... totaling 63 women from El Salvador, 30 from Guatemala, 30 from Honduras, and 37 from Mexico. Each had ...

Worldwide, there are now around 597,000 refugees and asylum seekers from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. They are escaping gang violence, threats, extortion, recruitment into gangs or ...

Germany and Guatemala maintain good and intensive relations ... on democratic governance (promotion of the rule of law and violence prevention), vocational training/labour market integration ...