Feb. 16 (UPI) --In June 2025, Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo traveled to Taipei for a five-day state visit. It was his first trip to Taiwan since serving as deputy foreign minister more than ...

Guatemala is returning to hardline security policies amid a resurgence of gang activity, two years after its president pledged a renewed approach to the problem. Upon taking office in January 2024, ...

Guatemala has ended its monthlong state of emergency after deadly attacks on police pushed President Bernardo Arévalo to seek special powers against gangs Tuesday 17 February 2026 03:33 GMT Guatemala ...

Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo said Sunday that the 30-day state of siege helped authorities regain control over gang activity after Barrio 18 members killed 11 police officers in January and ...

The U.S. State Department keeps Guatemala at a Level 3 “Reconsider Travel” advisory due to crime. Officials issued the current version in late December 2024 and have not changed the level despite ...

United Nations experts have called for an investigation into Guatemalan Attorney General Consuelo Porras for her alleged involvement in illegal adoptions of a number of indigenous children, which she ...

Long before “black capitalism” be came a politically popular catch phrase, Negro-owned “soul banks” started sprouting in ghetto areas. In 1962, there were ten Negro-owned and operated banks in the U.S ...

The most socialized country in the Western Hemisphere is the Central American Republic of Guatemala. It is also one of the few Latin American republics (according to New York Timesman W. H.

In Guatemala’s presidential runoff in August 2023, political outsider Bernardo Arévalo de León won 58 percent of the vote, beating establishment candidate and former First Lady Sandra Torres. The ...