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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...