Canan fled his hometown of Zacapa, Guatemala, for the United States when he was 16 years old to escape criminal violence. "He suffered some sort of attack by local criminals in his town when he ...

Mining is at the center of a campaign of repression and violence targeting environmentalists and human rights defenders in Guatemala. The government is violently quashing opposition, and foreign ...

Guatemala is stepping up its military presence at the Mexican border in response to escalating cartel violence. President Bernardo Arévalo says the new operation, dubbed "Ring of Fire," is meant ...