Tag: Guatemala

Central America

Guatemala: halt expulsion of anti-corruption chief

With protesters paralyzing the capital, the Guatemalan Supreme Court suspended President Jimmy Morales' order to deport the head of a UN anti-corruption commission from the country. The order came two days after Ivan Velásquez, the Colombian prosecutor who leads Guatemala's International Commission against Impunity, announced he was seeking to lift Morales' immunity from prosecution.

Central America

Taiwan sacrificed to Central America geopolitics

Panama is the latest Central American nation to switch diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Bejing—under pressure of China's fast-growing economic presence on the isthmus.

Mexico

Mexico: fugitive narco-governors snared

Javier Duarte, the ex-governor of Mexico's Veracruz state, was detained by Interpol in Guatemala—the latest in a string of fugitive Mexican ex-governors to be arrested abroad.

Central America

Guatemala: Barrio 18 gang in deadly prison siege

Three guards were killed as riot police stormed a juvenile detention center outside Guatemala City, where members of the notorious Barrio 18 narco-gang had staged un uprising.

Central America

Guatemalans march on capital for water rights

Thousands converged on Guatemala City on Earth Day, the culmination of a cross-country march by peasants and popular organizations to demand local rights over access to water.

Mexico

HRW: Mexico returning children to violence

Mexican immigration authorities are improperly returning children who might qualify for formal protection from violence in Central America, Human Rights Watch charges.

Central America

Genocide trial opens in Guatemala

A Guatemalan court convened for a fourth attempt to try former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.