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Guatemala’s former economics minister pleads guilty to using Miami bank accounts to pay bribes

MIAMI — A former high-ranking government official in Guatemala has pleaded guilty in Miami federal court to conspiring to commit money laundering while paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to Guatemalan politicians through the U.S. banking system.

Miami Herald

Colombia President-elect Petro names Ivan Velasquez as defense minister

Colombia's incoming leftist President Gustavo Petro on Friday named Ivan Velasquez, a former assistant judge in the country's Supreme Court of Justice and previously a UN anti-corruption investigator in Guatemala, as his defense minister.

Reuters

Two men indicted in San Antonio migrant trailer tragedy

The Attorney General’s Office could authorize prosecutors to seek the death penalty

The Independent UK

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Netflix's password-sharing crackdown has already begun

Early tests in Argentina, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras reveal a fee of $2.99 per extra home.

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North Texas migrant sees awful irony — his success is why others die to reach US

DALLAS — Carlos Joaquin Salinas is finally becoming the person he dreamt he’d be. Someone respected. Someone his mother is proud of.

Tribune News Service

Guatemala returns 1st of its 21 victims from Texas trailer

Guatemala has repatriated its first victim from the failed smuggling attempt that left 53 migrants from Mexico and Central America dead last month in San Antonio, Texas

The Independent UK

Extremely Remote: Woman Saves Up Thousands Traveling Worldwide While Working A New York City Job

“I did a month in Guatemala, realized how easy it was, and a lot of people I met told me you can stay in co-working hostels."

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Under new program, some migrant kids will no longer be separated from relatives at border

LOS ANGELES — After the girl's grandfather died, she traveled from Guatemala to the Texas border with her uncle.

Los Angeles Times

Woman remote works from anywhere in world and puts £1,600 a month into savings

Madi has been doing her office job from Columbia, Guatemala, Mexico, Italy, Costa Rica, France, Belgium and Kenya

Wales Online

Texas migrant deaths highlight growing desperation in Guatemala

Families are in mourning after dozens were found dead in an abandoned trailer en route to a ‘better future’.

Al Jazeera

A migrant survivor of the trailer: 'They couldn't breathe'

The advice of a friend to stay near the door of a semi-trailer may have saved Yenifer Yulisa Cardona Tomás from the deadly end that 53 other migrants met when the truck was abandoned on the outskirts of San Antonio

The Independent UK

Migrants in Texas trailer tragedy died seeking better lives

News of the trailer full of bodies struck horror in cities and villages accustomed to watching their young people leave, trying to flee poverty or violence in Central America and Mexico.

The Texas Tribune

Families of migrants who died in Texas human trafficking tragedy remember loved ones who sought better lives

Wilmer, 14, left his native Guatemala last month with dreams of learning English and reuniting with his older brother in the United States. Instead, he would die alongside more than 50 other migrants in the deadliest US human smuggling tragedy on record.

ABC News

Guatemala, Mexico families mourn missing teenage sons after migrant tragedy

Some of the youngest migrants thought to have died in a suffocating trailer in Texas this week set off from poor towns in Guatemala and Mexico, following in the footsteps of relatives seeking a better life in the United States.

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The Independent UK

Inseparable cousins and high school sweethearts: Everything we know about the victims who died in the Texas migrant truck

‘My children leave a void in my heart,’ said the Honduran mother who lost two of her sons in the San Antonio tractor incident

The Independent UK

Migrants in Texas trailer tragedy died seeking better lives

As families of the 67 people packed into a tractor-trailer and abandoned in Texas began to confirm their worst fears and talk of their relatives, a common narrative of pursuing a better life took shape from Honduras to Mexico

The Texas Tribune

U.S. charges driver and 3 others in deaths of 53 migrants found in tractor-trailer

It was the single deadliest migrant smuggling case in U.S. history, according to a Homeland Security official. Citizens of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were among the victims.

Reuters

Guatemalan president arrives in U.S. for visit after snubbing summit

Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei landed in the United States for a two-day working tour on Monday, a presidential spokesperson confirmed, as bilateral ties remained strained after he opted out of the Summit of the Americas this month.

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The Independent UK

Guatemala court blocks anti-corruption agreement

A Guatemalan court has tossed out an agreement that made it easier to prosecute bribery involving the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht

Reuters

Storm Celia expected to dump heavy rain on El Salvador, Guatemala, southern Mexico

Tropical Storm Celia is expected to drop heavy rain on El Salvador, Guatemala and southern Mexico through Sunday, and could spark flash floods and mudslides, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Friday.

Los Angeles Times

He’s one of Guatemala’s last independent judges. Will he be forced to flee, too?

GUATEMALA CITY — As a judge who has worked for more than a decade in the fight against corruption here, Miguel Ángel Gálvez has taken on some of Guatemala’s most powerful people.

The Guardian - UK

A migrant takes a serene selfie – Adam Ferguson’s best photograph

‘Stephanie was 17, a Guatemalan migrant about to try to enter the US. She took this herself, radiating serenity during one of the most precarious moments of her life’

Miami Herald

Reputed Mexican cartel boss extradited in Miami-Dade’s biggest meth-smuggling case

The reputed leader of a Mexican drug cartel appeared in Miami federal court Monday after his extradition from Guatemala on narco-trafficking charges accusing him of directing the largest shipment of methamphetamine to Miami-Dade in the county’s history.

The Independent UK

Activists try giant screen to clean up Guatemalan river

The non-profit group Ocean Cleanup has installed a huge, steel-mesh screen on a heavily polluted river outside Guatemala, in a bid to stop plastics and other debris before they reach the ocean

Al Jazeera

Summit of the Americas: US aims private funds at migration

Plan announced by Vice President Harris comes amid boycott of Americas summit by leaders of Central America and Mexico.

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