GUATEMALA CITY – Guatemalans went to the polls on Sunday to elect their next president amid a deep political crisis rocking the country. The election, conducted in an atmosphere of deep skepticism, ...

Guatemala's president on Wednesday ousted his interior minister and two other officials after 20 members of the Barrio 18 ...

Guatemalan textile workers describe brutal conditions inside the factories making clothes for some of the biggest brands in the US.

GUATEMALA CITY — Heavy rains set off a landslide in Guatemala’s capital early Monday, sweeping several humble homes into a river and leaving at least six people dead and 12 missing, including 10 ...

SAN JOSÉ DEL GOLFO, Guatemala – An uncomfortable tension filled the air in the village of San José del Golfo, 28 kilometers northeast of Guatemala City, last Thursday. Driving through the streets, ...

Twenty members of a gang designated a "foreign terrorist organization" by the United States have escaped from detention in ...

The most populous country in Central America with 14.7 million inhabitants, Guatemala is experiencing the common developing nation scenario – a huge youth population – as 70 percent of the population ...

ANTIGUA, Guatemala -- The smell of chocolate permeates the long narrow alleys and cobblestoned streets of Guatemala’s ancient colonial capital. It wafts out behind the colored stucco walls of ...

Two sinkholes formed in the middle of the streets of Villa Nueva, Guatemala, a town less than 13 miles southwest of the country's capital Guatemala City. Three people were injured, including two after ...

I have both a personal and a professional attachment to Guatemala. It is the first country I covered as country economist at the World Bank in the early 1990s. Guatemala is a country with enormous ...