Tag: Guatemala

• Tuesday, January 19th 2021 - 08:41 UTC

  Guatemalan forces beat back to Honduras a migrant caravan heading for the US

  

  While the Mexican government militarized its borders, Guatemalan security forces on Monday cleared a road of hundreds of people in a mostly Honduran migrant caravan that had camped out overnight when authorities barred it from advancing toward the United States.

• Monday, January 18th 2021 - 09:19 UTC

  Guatemala forces beat back migrant caravan heading for the US

  

  Guatemala beat back on Sunday a large migrant caravan bound for the United States, just days before the inauguration of the new administration.

• Monday, November 23rd 2020 - 18:29 UTC

  Guatemalans set congress on fire furious over corruption and lack of funds to combat coronavirus

  

  Hundreds of Guatemalans partly burned the Congress building on Saturday in a protest demanding the resignation of President Alejandro Giammattei, following the passage of a budget that has sparked outrage in the impoverished Central American nation.

• Wednesday, April 1st 2020 - 18:23 UTC

  Guatemala/Belize dispute, a potential second front during the Falklands conflict?

  

  The Falklands War, a 10-week undeclared conflict between Argentina and the United Kingdom, broke out in April 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic. However, it appears, the Argentine threat was not the only one that Downing Street had to counter at the time.

• Friday, January 24th 2020 - 08:31 UTC

  Mexico's National Guard “rescue” some 2,000 migrants trying to cross from Guatemala

  

  Mexican migration authorities released an official count of the number of people detained along the country's southern border two days before, estimating that more than 2,000 people were “rescued” after they crossed the border with Guatemala.

• Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 07:14 UTC

  Mexican National Guard fires tear gas to prevent migrant caravan crossing from Guatemala

  

  Hundreds of Central Americans from a new migrant caravan tried to force their way into Mexico on Monday by crossing the river that divides the country from Guatemala, prompting the National Guard to fire tear gas.

• Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:29 UTC

  Guatemala cuts diplomatic ties with Venezuela; orders the closure of the embassy in Caracas

  

  Guatemala’s new President Alejandro Giammattei cut diplomatic ties with the Venezuelan government of President Nicolas Maduro and ordered the closure of its embassy in Caracas.

• Monday, January 20th 2020 - 07:52 UTC

  Trump's migration policy challenged by Guatemalans gathered at Mexican border

  

  Hundreds of Central Americans gathered on the Guatemala-Mexico border on Sunday, aiming to cross en masse early on Monday in what could prove a stiff test of the Mexican government's pledge to satisfy US demands to curb migrant flows.

• Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Mexico offers jobs to a Central America migrants' caravan heading for the US

  

  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador offered 4,000 jobs Friday to migrants in a new caravan currently crossing Central America toward the United States.

• Friday, August 2nd 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  US to seek migration deals with other Central American countries

  

  The United States will seek migration deals with El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras and Panama, akin to last week's with Guatemala, to curb emigration from Central America, a senior US official said Thursday.