Guatemala
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AMERICAS
Guatemala Probes Army’s Role After Eight Killings Leave Huité Searching for Answers
Eight killings in Huité have prompted Guatemala to investigate its army’s role amid conflicting accounts from relatives and officials. Four…
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LIFE
Guatemalan Farmers Lose Their Harvests and Find Hunger Growing in Their Place
In eastern Guatemala, drought has destroyed crops meant to keep families fed when other harvests failed. Empty wells, lost investments,…
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ECONOMY
El Salvador and Guatemala Watch Lake Güija’s Rainy Season Come Up Short
At Lake Güija, El Niño is threatening fishing, farming, and water supplies shared by El Salvador and Guatemala. Families await…
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AMERICAS
Guatemala Races to Save War Victims’ Files Before History Crumbles into Silence
Guatemala is rescuing thousands of deteriorating civil war records that could help families obtain reparations and uncover their relatives’ fate.…
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Environment
Guatemala Evacuates as Fuego Volcano Roars and Old Wounds Reopen
Guatemala’s Fuego volcano is erupting again, forcing families from vulnerable villages as lava fountains, ash clouds, and pyroclastic flows descend…
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AMERICAS
Guatemala Still Searches for Cristina as Femicide’s Silence Grows Louder
Fifteen years after Cristina Siekavizza vanished in Guatemala, her family’s plea for anonymous tips cuts through a region where femicide…
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AMERICAS
Rigoberta Menchú Warns Guatemala Justice Turns Peace Into Impunity Again
Rigoberta Menchú’s latest warning is not nostalgia from Guatemala’s war years. It is a woman’s indictment of courts captured by…
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AMERICAS
Guatemala Maras Trade Extortion Fear for Cocaine Cash and Control
Guatemala's police say Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18 are moving beyond extortion into drug trafficking, a dangerous shift that could…
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Environment
Guatemala’s Pacific Graves Show Climate Crisis Eating Latin America’s Shoreline
Tropical Storm Cristina exposed Guatemala's Pacific coast as a frontline of climate change, where rising seas, violent surf, damaged homes,…
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AMERICAS
Guatemalan Maya Climb Chicabal Seeking Rain as Climate Anxiety Deepens
At a sacred volcanic lagoon, Maya Mam families ask for rain as drought threatens crops, turning an ancestral ceremony into…
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