Guatemala

A federal judge sentenced a Guatemalan illegal alien to 78 months in federal prison for firearms trafficking after an investigation revealed a scheme to move firearms from Alabama to Maryland. Lester Ramos-Perez, a 29-year-old from Guatemala who is illegally present in the United States, was part of a broader conspiracy to move the weapons, according to court records.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has indicted a pair of illegal aliens accused of helping operate an international smuggling ring that trafficked migrant children across the United States-Mexico border as Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) and, in some cases, fraudulently taking custody of them. Another illegal alien sexually abused a UAC to whom he fraudulently claimed to be related.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have arrested an illegal alien accused of setting fire to several cars in Freeport, New York, a suburb in Nassau County, Long Island. 

An illegal alien is accused of raping an underage girl after plying her with alcohol in Charlotte County, Florida.

Guatemala deployed special forces, known as Kaibiles, to guard its northern border with Mexico just days after teams of cartel gunmen from Mexico entered the country and carried out violent attacks in rural border communities. The teams of cartel gunmen also clashed with Guatemalan military forces.

A Guatemalan migrant has been charged in the stabbing deaths of two women in Burien, Washington, a suburb of Seattle.

A Biden-appointed federal judge blocked the Trump administration from deporting hundreds of child and youth migrants back to their families in their home country of Guatemala.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a Guatemalan illegal alien for submitting false statements to become a sponsor for two unaccompanied alien children. Among other things, the man submitted an “obviously photoshopped” photo to help establish a familial relationship to one of the boys.

A fisherman in Florida has been deported back to Venezuela after he damaged a great white heron, a protected bird. 

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers arrested a Guatemalan illegal alien after he allegedly murdered his Guatemalan girlfriend in Maryland. Officers also arrested the man’s uncle as an alleged accessory to murder after the fact.

Catholics across Latin America are observing this year’s Good Friday by participating in numerous processions and activities, honoring their respective countries’ Catholic traditions, some of which stand out as unique among themselves.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Boston reportedly arrested a Guatemalan national charged with child rape who had been released by a district court back into the community.

A pair of Guatemalan men who allegedly operated one of the biggest human smuggling rings in the United States have been taken into custody in Los Angeles, California.

Numerous people lost their lives on Monday in a bus crash in Guatemala that flipped the vehicle upside down.

The president of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council, Leslie Voltaire, greeted 70 police officers from Guatemala and El Salvador at the airport in Port-au-Prince on Tuesday.

Sec. of State Marco Rubio has inked a deal with Guatemala that allows U.S. officials to deport migrants from many nations to the poor Central American nation.

A migrant illegally present in the United States is in a Texas jail charged with kidnapping a Guatemalan migrant woman and holding her for ransom. He reportedly forced the woman to perform labor to work off her smuggling debt.

Officials in Central America are already complaining that they do not have the “capacity” to accept potentially hundreds of thousands of their nationals back from the United States when President-Elect Donald Trump carries out his historic deportation program.

Guatemalan Congressman Héctor Aldana wore a red Trump hat during a Congressional session this week.

Seven people, including at least two children, were killed, and dozens more were wounded when a bus crashed in Mississippi.

An illegal alien, released into the United States nearly a decade ago, is now accused of sexually assaulting a child in Rhode Island.

A Guatemalan migrant is accused of murdering a 21-month-old boy in Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Three migrant men from Guatemala have pleaded guilty or been convicted of gang raping a deaf woman after kidnapping her in Santa Fe, New Mexico in June 2021. Another migrant, accused of being the ring leader, has since reportedly fled to Guatemala. 

An illegal alien who was recently released into the United States is accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl.

An illegal alien is accused of stabbing a man to death at a Days Inn hotel in Sumter County, Florida, police reveal.

An illegal alien is accused of spying on girls by looking under stalls in a Walmart bathroom in D’Iberville, Mississippi. 

Three illegal aliens are accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman in Palm Beach County, Florida.

An illegal alien accused of causing St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Michael Kunovich’s death, has filed a civil rights lawsuit.

The U.S. State Department imposed sanctions on former Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei on Wednesday, banning him and his sons from entering the United States because of his alleged “involvement in significant corruption.”

Guatemala inaugurated leftist President Bernardo Arévalo in the early morning hours of Monday following a series of delays.

Donald Trump told Breitbart News that the recent wave of populist and conservative victories, from Italy to Argentina and more, show that international populist conservatives’ movement is “stronger” than it was in 2016.

Argentine President-elect Javier Milei won the nation’s top office on November 19 by standing against many of the policies and values that define the administration of his American counterpart Joe Biden – and presents a serious challenge to Biden’s Latin America policy.

Guatemalan leftist candidate Bernardo Arévalo emerged as the winner of Guatemala’s 2023 presidential runoff election on Sunday, defeating leftist former first lady and first-round front-runner Sandra Torres.

An illegal alien wanted for rape in Guatemala with an Interpol Red Notice was found living in the sanctuary state of New York.

An illegal alien is accused of physically and sexually abusing his teenage daughter, in addition to starving her, in Lancaster County, Nebraska.

A Guatemalan court suspended the operations of the center-left Semilla party, led by presidential runner-up candidate Bernardo Arévalo, on Wednesday over claims the party engaged in illicit campaign financing and forged signatures.