Articles tagged with
Guatemala

Guatemala set for run-off vote amid concerns over crime

by BBC

The only certainty that Guatemalans could infer from the slow trickle of Sunday's presidential election results was that uncertainty over who their next president will be is set to linger for another two months

Mexico working with Guatemala to avert more massacres

by Latin American Herald Tribune

Mexico’s interior minister said his country is cooperating with the Guatemalan government to prevent more massacres like the one Mexican drug traffickers perpetrated last weekend in the northern Guatemalan province of Peten

Suspected drug lord held in Guatemala

by Guardian

Juan Ortiz Lopez, who is wanted in Florida on cocaine trafficking charges, is arrested at a house in Quetzaltenango

The rot spreads

by The Economist

Drug-trafficking gangs find a promising new home in some of the poorest and most vulnerable countries in the Americas.

Guatemalan government declares siege to fend off drug gang

by CNN

Guatemala's government has declared a state of siege and sent hundreds of troops to a northern province where officials say a Mexican drug gang is overtaking towns and threatening residents