Guatemala

Sec. of State Marco Rubio has inked a deal with Guatemala that allows U.S. officials to deport migrants from many nations to the poor Central American nation.

Officials in Central America are already complaining that they do not have the “capacity” to accept potentially hundreds of thousands of their nationals back from the United States when President-Elect Donald Trump carries out his historic deportation program.

Guatemalan Congressman Héctor Aldana wore a red Trump hat during a Congressional session this week.

Seven people, including at least two children, were killed, and dozens more were wounded when a bus crashed in Mississippi.

A Guatemalan migrant is accused of murdering a 21-month-old boy in Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Three migrant men from Guatemala have pleaded guilty or been convicted of gang raping a deaf woman after kidnapping her in Santa Fe, New Mexico in June 2021. Another migrant, accused of being the ring leader, has since reportedly fled to Guatemala. 

An illegal alien who was recently released into the United States is accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl.

An illegal alien is accused of spying on girls by looking under stalls in a Walmart bathroom in D’Iberville, Mississippi. 

Three illegal aliens are accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman in Palm Beach County, Florida.

An illegal alien accused of causing St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Michael Kunovich’s death, has filed a civil rights lawsuit.

The U.S. State Department imposed sanctions on former Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei on Wednesday, banning him and his sons from entering the United States because of his alleged “involvement in significant corruption.”

Guatemala inaugurated leftist President Bernardo Arévalo in the early morning hours of Monday following a series of delays.

Donald Trump told Breitbart News that the recent wave of populist and conservative victories, from Italy to Argentina and more, show that international populist conservatives’ movement is “stronger” than it was in 2016.

Argentine President-elect Javier Milei won the nation’s top office on November 19 by standing against many of the policies and values that define the administration of his American counterpart Joe Biden – and presents a serious challenge to Biden’s Latin America policy.

Guatemalan leftist candidate Bernardo Arévalo emerged as the winner of Guatemala’s 2023 presidential runoff election on Sunday, defeating leftist former first lady and first-round front-runner Sandra Torres.

An illegal alien wanted for rape in Guatemala with an Interpol Red Notice was found living in the sanctuary state of New York.

An illegal alien is accused of physically and sexually abusing his teenage daughter, in addition to starving her, in Lancaster County, Nebraska.

A Guatemalan court suspended the operations of the center-left Semilla party, led by presidential runner-up candidate Bernardo Arévalo, on Wednesday over claims the party engaged in illicit campaign financing and forged signatures.

Guatemala’s Constitutional Court ordered the nation’s top electoral court to temporarily suspend the officialization of the June 25 presidential election on Saturday evening and ordered it to review the ballots used in the election.

Guatemala held the first round of its presidential election on Sunday, resulting in more “null” votes than the total for any single candidate.

Prosecutors have indicted a number of foreign nationals associated with the “Lopez Crime Family” transnational criminal organization.

Guatemala’s presidential candidates are campaigning in the U.S. after decades of high levels of legal immigration.

President Joe Biden’s open borders policy is damaging the United States — and is even wrecking the poor migrant-sending countries by extracting their young people and enriching their criminals, says Republican Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL).

An illegal alien is accused of killing two people, a 33-year-old man and a 62-year-old man, in a deadly crash in Polk County, Florida.

Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador started a new international controversy by attempting to free a former Guatemalan guerrilla leader who is serving 175 years in prison for murder. The Guatemalan man killed three soldiers who were looking for drug-trafficking landing strips.

Federal immigration authorities loaded 133 migrants into an airplane headed for Guatemala. The agents expelled the migrants under the CDC’s Title 42 health protocol that is expected to end on May 11.

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen landed in New York on Wednesday for a stopover that will last until Saturday, when she departs for Guatemala and Belize.

The governments of Guatemala and Colombia are at an impasse after Guatemala’s Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Impunity announced on Monday that it would take unspecified “legal actions” against Colombian Defense Minister Iván Velásquez.

Multiple nations that maintain diplomatic ties with the nation of Taiwan – which precludes them from establishing a relationship with communist China, as per Beijing’s protocol – have used the United Nations General Assembly this week to demand that the U.N. include Taiwan as a full member.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attempted to convince Latin America to abandon what has for months been little more than apathy towards the Russian invasion of his country in a speech to Chilean college students this week.

Leftist masked rioters took the streets of Guatemala on Tuesday to protest against the nation’s conservative president, Alejandro Giammattei, and his government.

Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Tuesday, marking the first visit by a Latin American head of state to Ukraine since Russia’s latest invasion in February.

One of the two illegal aliens accused of plotting a mass shooting on the Fourth of July is allegedly linked to a Mexican Drug Cartel, court records reveal. 

President Alejandro Giammattei of Guatemala told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview last week that President Joe Biden should take more action to prevent drug trafficking out of Venezuela, suggesting that Biden’s decision to “negotiate oil” with the repressive Venezuelan socialist regime may be negatively impacting law enforcement efforts.

Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei has not spoken to U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris since January and says “greater communication” is needed between Guatemala and the United States to address the countries’ ongoing migration crisis.

resident Alejandro Giammattei of Guatemala told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview this week that he would never consider buying oil from socialist Venezuela, calling such a deal – which U.S. President Joe Biden is reportedly considering – akin to “nourishing the devil.”