Guatemala

Outsider Bernardo Arévalo appeared to be the “virtual winner” of Sunday’s election to be Guatemala’s next president.

Guatemalans have begun voting to elect a new president, hoping that the country’s next leader will provide relief from rising prices and get a handle on crime and corruption.

Two Latin American consulates have told its D.C. communities to be on high alert as the city battles a spike in violent crime. News4’s Joseph Olmo reports.

Officials say an unaccompanied 15-year-old migrant girl from Guatemala died from an underlying disease while in federal custody.

A federal investigation into Guatemalan children working in the U.S. in violation of child labor laws has expanded to include meatpacking and produce firms that have allegedly hired underage migrants in at least 11 states, two senior U.S. officials told NBC News. Investigators from the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations and the Justice Department, as well as White House officials, are participating in the expanded...

A single mother of five is the entrepreneur who had the idea to help her community find work and keep the Guatemalan culture thriving in the D.C. area. Lilian Mass reports.

Bristol County prosecutors received an international arrest warrant, Massachusetts State Police said, and Mario Garcia, now 50, was taken into custody at the shrimp farm after trying to get away through the water.

Prosecutors in Guatemala say they have found 1,222 possible archeological artefacts at the home of an American couple accused of smuggling historical relics.  The apparently pre-Hispanic pieces found in a 12-hour inspection of the house in the tourist town of Antigua range from large stone carvings to small pottery pieces. The prosecutors office said in a statement Thursday that the...

Hason Hernandez knew he wanted his 15th birthday to be the last one he had a big party for, so he wanted to go out with a bang. The Southern California asked his mom if he could have a quinceañera, the time-honored coming-of-age celebration for girls in Latin American cultures. Hernandez’s mom loved the idea. He’s part of a growing...

Former accountant Mario David García Mansilla gets up at 5 a.m. every day and heads to Pacaya, an active volcano near Guatemala City, Guatemala. There, Mansilla continues at the craft he has worked to hone for years: making the perfect pizza in a volcanic oven. LX News contributor Matt Dworzanczyk shows you Mansilla’s workday and his spot on Pacaya, where...

Two men were indicted Wednesday in the case of a hot, airless tractor-trailer rig found last month with 53 dead or dying migrants in San Antonio, officials said.

While the caravans have garnered media attention, the migrants traveling in them represent a tiny fraction of the migratory flow that carries people to the U.S. border every day, usually with the help of smugglers.