Guatemala
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LIFE
Guatemala City Faces Unrest as El Gallito Reopens and the City Feels Under Siege
After ten police killings and a state of siege, armed patrols enter El Gallito, a neighborhood long ruled by gangs,…
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AMERICAS
Guatemala Prisons Rule Streets While Cells Command Violence Economy
From behind bars, gangs in Guatemala run extortion rackets like call centers, directing threats, payments, and killings while enjoying privileges…
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AMERICAS
Guatemala Wakes Up Under Emergency Rules as Gangs Test State Power
After prison riots spilled into street attacks, Guatemala entered a thirty-day emergency that limits protests and expands police powers. With…
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LIFE
Concrete Floors, Living Futures: How Guatemala Can End a Preventable Health Crisis
A concrete floor isn't charity; it's public health with generational returns. In Guatemala, where a million homes still rest on…
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LIFE
Guatemala Learns to Dance with Death, Memory, And Unfinished Histories
In three long, haunting stories, Guatemalan writer Arnoldo Gálvez Suárez turns death from a doom into a reckoning. As he…
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ANALYSIS
Guatemala Waits, Planes Idle, and Children Linger in a Legal and Political Crossfire
A judge's last-minute order grounded U.S. deportation flights and forced a pause in an urgent, disputed campaign to send unaccompanied…
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LIFE
Plastic Bottles Are Choking Central America—And Each One Tells a Story
From Nicaragua's fishing villages to Guatemala's mangrove swamps, plastic bottles are arriving faster than anyone can clean them up—tagged with…
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Guatemala’s Jungle Tubs Keep Jaguars Cool When the Forest Dries
Hidden deep in Guatemala's parched rainforest, plastic tubs filled by hand and guarded by motion-triggered cameras are giving jaguars, monkeys,…
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SPORTS
From Guatemalan Hills to European Podiums: Sergio Chumil’s Climb Toward Cycling’s Grand Tours
Each morning in Spain, Guatemalan cyclist Sergio Chumil trains alone behind a team car, chasing a dream that started on…
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LIFE
Guatemalan Migrant’s Tree-Top Eight-Hour Defiance
A Guatemalan migrant in San Antonio spent eight harrowing hours perched in a tree, eluding immigration agents below. The drama…
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