GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala passed a new anti-gang law on Tuesday aimed at giving the government more resources to fight the groups, which are now considered terrorist organizations. The law ...

Guatemala has ended its monthlong state of emergency after deadly attacks on police pushed President Bernardo Arévalo to seek ...

A wave of violence inside and outside prisons drew attention to President Bernardo Arévalo's fragile political balancing act ...

Guatemalan Interior Minister Francisco Jimenez gives a press conference at the National Palace in Guatemala City, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, after authorities confirmed the escape of 20 members from the ...

Show more Show less Soldiers take position outside the maximum-security prison in Escuintla, Guatemala Prison guards walk free after the police operation to regain control of the prison from inmates A ...

Streets were half-empty Monday in the capital city of Guatemala, where outrage and fear lingered during the first day of the 30-day state of emergency decreed by the government in response to the ...

Show more Show less Soldiers take position outside the maximum-security prison in Escuintla, Guatemala Prison guards walk free after the police operation to regain control of the prison from inmates A ...

GUATEMALA CITY — Jimmy Gonzalez was out of tears by the time he arrived at the state morgue to claim his father’s corpse. “There’s nothing more to say; my mother and I know that nobody will remember ...

GUATEMALA CITY – The death toll from coordinated gang attacks in Guatemala has risen to nine police officers, an official confirmed on Monday, following a weekend of violence that began with prison ...

Guatemala's interior minister accused gangs of killing seven police on Sunday in retaliation for the government's refusal to transfer gang leaders to a lower-security prison. The killings occurred in ...

Guatemala's president on Sunday declared a 30-day nationwide state of emergency to combat criminal gangs after authorities accused the groups of killing eight police officers and holding hostages at ...