Wednesday, 20 January 2021_Guatemala has returned thousands of Honduran asylum seekers to the El Florido border crossing in buses and trucks, following a crackdown on their caravan by the country’s security forces at the weekend.
TEHRAN, Nov 5_Guatemalan President-elect Alejandro Giammattei says he plans to sever all diplomatic ties with Venezuela after his inauguration in January 2020.
TEHRAN, August 11 -Guatemalans on Sunday vote in a second round run-off election for a new president who is likely to face a major challenge coping with a deal signed with Washington in July to turn the country into a buffer zone to stem migration.
TEHRAN, August 9 - The governments of Guatemala and Mexico said on Thursday that between them, almost 300 of their citizens had been detained in the southern U.S. state of Mississippi as part of sweeping U.S. immigration operations.
TEHRAN, Jul 28 - Hundreds of protesters in Guatemalans held a rally condemning an agreement that President Jimmy Morales' government inked with Washington to require migrants passing through the Central American country to seek asylum here, rather than pushing on to the U.S.
TEHRAN, Jul 27 - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he accepted to remove economic sanctions threats against Guatemala after the country said it would take new steps to lower U.S. asylum claims from migrants from Honduras and El Salvador.
TEHRAN, Mar 09 - Prosecutors in Guatemala say they have opened a corruption investigation into a former chief prosecutor who is soon to be named a candidate in the June 16 presidential elections.
TEHRAN, November 19 - Disaster coordination authorities have asked 10 communities in Guatemala to evacuate and go to safe areas after an increased eruption of the Volcano of Fire.
TEHRAN, October 18 - More Honduran migrants tried to join a caravan of several thousand trekking through Guatemala on Wednesday, defying calls by authorities not to make the journey after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to cut off regional aid in reprisal.
TEHRAN, September 11 - Hundreds of peasant farmers and indigenous Maya blocked a major highway in Guatemala's western highlands on Monday, demanding that President Jimmy Morales reverse a policy aimed at forcing a U.N.-backed anti-graft unit to leave the country.
TEHRAN, September 05 - The head of a U.N.-backed commission probing corruption in Guatemala was barred from re-entering the country Tuesday, further defanging the investigative body days after President Jimmy Morales announced he would not renew its mandate.
TEHRAN, July 23 - Shots were fired at a vehicle carrying a U.S. embassy official in southern Guatemala on Sunday evening but there were no injuries, a spokesman for the Central American country’s national police said.
TEHRAN, June 07 - Explosions boomed from Guatemala's fearsome Fuego volcano Wednesday, unleashing fresh torrents of molten mud and ash down slopes where officials said 75 people had been killed and 200 were still missing.
TEHRAN, June 05 - Rescue workers pulled more bodies Monday from under the dust and rubble left by an explosive eruption of Guatemala's Fuego volcano, bringing the death toll to at least 69.
TEHRAN, June 06- Authorities in Guatemala have increased the number of the dead from a volcanic eruption in the Central American country to 69, as family members search for the missing in makeshift morgues and on streets blanketed with ash.
TEHRAN, June 04 - An estimated 25 people, including at least three children, were killed and nearly 300 injured on Sunday in the most violent eruption of Guatemala's Fuego volcano in more than four decades, officials said.
TEHRAN, June 04 - An estimated 25 people, including at least three children, were killed and nearly 300 injured on Sunday in the most violent eruption of Guatemala’s Fuego volcano in more than four decades, officials said.
TEHRAN, December 25 -Guatemala has announced that it will be moving its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem al-Quds, making it the first country to follow in the footsteps of US President Donald Trump.