Guatemala

Several hundred migrants who had departed from the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula in hopes of reaching the United States entered Guatemalan territory where they were intercepted by authorities who began talks on returning them to their homelands.

A report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence warns “climate change will increasingly exacerbate risks to U.S. national security interests.”

The majority of Central Americans who want to migrate internationally are motivated by economic factors, a new report found.

In 2016, Gabriella Lindsay and her family left Chicago for the beaches of Mexico. They now live in Antigua, where the cost of living is much cheaper than in the U.S. Here’s a look at what they do, eat and spend in a typical week.

Karla Leiva finds herself at a migrant shelter near the Guatemala-Mexico border with her 5-year-old daughter Zoe.

Vice President Kamala Harris made her first visit as vice president to the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday.

Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday discouraged Guatemalans from immigrating illegally to the U.S. “I want to be clear to folks in this region who are thinking about making the trek to the United States-Mexico border: Do not come. Do not come,” Harris said.

Vice President Kamala Harris has offered an optimistic outlook for improved cooperation with Guatemala on addressing the spike in migration to the U.S. But after her meeting with Guatemala’s president Monday, Harris also delivered a direct warning to migrants considering making the trek: “Do not come

This is the Vice President’s first foreign trip which will include visits to Guatemala and Mexico.

More places are easing travel restrictions for vaccinated travelers, with some set to require inoculations from all travelers by the summer.

Vice President Kamala Harris has told Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei that the U.S. is planning to increase relief to the Northern Triangle region and “strengthen our cooperation” to better manage the steep increase in migration at the U.S. southern border.

Climate-related events increasingly intensify drivers of migration, including violence, food insecurity and poverty.

More than 200 Honduran migrants stepped off six buses at a converted seaside hotel this week following a wearying trip overnight across Guatemala after being deported by Mexico.

The Biden administration has struck an agreement with three Central American nations to temporarily surge troops to their borders in an effort to reduce the tide of migration to the U.S. border

The Biden administration is ending agreements with three Central American nations that were part of an effort to restrict asylum under President Donald Trump

Maria Macario has been living inside a Massachusetts church for over three years to avoid deportation to Guatemala.

Guatemalan police and soldiers have broken up a group of hundreds of migrants who had spent two nights stuck at a roadblock on a rural highway.

Revelers burn effigies of the devil and household junk in the annual tradition. The “Burning of the Devil” is meant to symbolize a day of purification ahead of the Catholic festival of the Immaculate Conception.

Guatemala is not the home they chose, but it’s the only home they have thanks to the Trump Administration’s Asylum Cooperation Agreement which has turned the violent and poverty-stricken country into an outsourced asylum, according to the New York Times.

U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement says it’s expanding coronavirus testing at detention facilities