TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico — Police in Mexico’s southern Chiapas state found 513 migrants on Tuesday inside two trailer trucks bound for the United States, and said they had been transported in dangerously crowded conditions. Some of the immigrants were suffering from dehydration after traveling for hours clinging to cargo ropes strung inside the containers to keep them upright as the trucks bounced along from the Guatemalan border, and allow more migrants to be more crammed in on the floor. The trucks had air holes punched in the tops of the containers, but migrants interviewed at the state prosecutors’ office said they lacked air and water. The trucks were bound for the central city of Puebla, where the migrants said they had been told they would be loaded aboard a second set of vehicles for the trip to the U.S. border. Read full article > >

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Mexican authorities discover 513 migrants in 2 trailer trucks heading to US

In what a police spokesman has called “the worst massacre we have seen in modern times,” unidentified gunmen have killed at least 27 people–decapitating most of the victims–in a Guatemalan village close to border with Mexico. The murder of 25 men and…

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27 Killed in Guatemala Massacre

It’s final. Five weeks after announcing that she would seek a divorce from her husband, Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom, Sandra Torres is no longer Guatemala’s first lady. A family court in Guatemala City has granted the divorce petition. It’s a controversial case that has created uproar in the mostly conservative and Catholic Central American nation.

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Guatemalan divorce creates uproar

IN COBAN, GUATEMALA The once-fearsome Guatemalan army has returned to the jungles where it battled Marxist guerrillas a generation ago, this time to hunt shadowy Mexican drug traffickers fighting for control of strategic smuggling routes to the United States.

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Mexican drug cartels draw Guatemalan army to jungles where it fought civil war

Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo goes on trial in Guatemala City for allegedly embezzling $15m from the country’s defence fund.

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Guatemala ex-president on trial

The United States apologized on Friday for an experiment conducted in the 1940s in which U.S. government medical researchers deliberately infected Guatemalan inmates with syphilis.

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U.S. Apologizes for Syphilis Experiment in Guatemala

At least a dozen people were killed when a mudslide buried a bus on a Guatemalan highway Saturday, authorities said.

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Rain, landslides kill 28 in Guatemala