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Nicaraguan citizens wave from a bus after being released from a Nicaraguan jail and landing at the airport in Guatemala City, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

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US secures the release of 135 Nicaraguan political prisoners
By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press
Thu,09/05/24-8:47AM , 59 Reads
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The U.S. government announced Thursday that it secured the release of 135 Nicaraguan political prisoners, who have arrived in Guatemala where they will apply for entry to the United States or other countries.
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Guatemalan police arrest 7 accused of trafficking the 53 migrants who asphyxiated in Texas in 2022
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Wed,08/21/24-7:41PM , 56 Reads
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan police on Wednesday arrested seven Guatemalans accused of having smuggled 53 migrants from Mexico and Central America who died of asphyxiation in 2022 in Texas after being abandoned in a tractor trailer in t
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An officer walks past a hole that police say was used as a mass grave, near San Fernando, Tamaulipas state, Mexico, April 27, 2011. The body of 17-year-old Guatemalan Yovanny was found among nearly 200 others in clandestine gravesites, discovered in April and May 2011 near San Fernando. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini, File)

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Guatemalan family seeks return of relative's body more than a decade after he disappeared in Mexico
By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press
Tue,07/16/24-10:37PM , 77 Reads
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Nearly a decade after Guatemalan authorities were told that Mexico had sent the wrong body to a Guatemalan family searching for their missing teenage relative, that unidentified body is still buried in Guatemala and the family’s relative is lying in a Mexico City morgue.
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Guatemalan prosecutors raided the offices of the charity Save the Children on Thursday, citing a complaint alleging the violation of migrant children’s rights. (April 26).

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Save the Children disputes abuse allegations after Guatemalan prosecutors raid offices
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Thu,04/25/24-8:01PM , 60 Reads
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The aid group Save the Children said there is nothing to support accusations of misconduct, speaking after Guatemalan prosecutors raided its offices in the Central American country looking for evidence of alleged abuse of migrant children.
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