On the west coast of Guatemala, the security services intercepted a small submarine carrying on board a thousand kilos of cocaine. The value of the drugs is estimated by the authorities at about $ 13.5 million, about 11.1 million euros.
The former dictator of Guatemala, Efrain Rios Montt, died on Sunday at the age of 91. That is what his lawyer Luis Rosales has announced.
Archaeologists have saved themselves years of fieldwork with a new laser technique, with which tens of thousands of hidden Mayan ruins have been discovered in the tropical rainforest of Guatemala.
In Guatemala Congressman Julio Juarez was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the murder of two journalists in 2015. This confirmed the office of the Attorney General of Guatemala on Saturday.
Following the United States, Guatemala is the second country to announce that it is moving its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. President Jimmy Morales wants to support the decision of his American counterpart Donald Trump who came to the same decision earlier this month.
Adorning a Christmas tree in a village in Guatemala resulted in a tragedy.
According to the latest data, the heavy earthquake on the west coast of Mexico has killed 26 dead. The authorities in the southern state of Oaxaca announced Friday that twenty people were killed, mainly in the place of Juchitán. In the neighboring state of Chiapas, which is also in the Pacific, four deaths have already been reported. Two states have been reported in the state of Tabasco.
The earthquake on the coast of Mexico is also felt in neighboring Guatemala. President Jimmy Morales said Friday for television that the damage is currently being mapped.
The epicenter of the powerful earthquake in Mexico was at Pijijiapan in the southern state of Chiapas. Chiapas has an area of 75,635 square kilometers and 4,224,800 inhabitants. In the east, the area borders Guatemala and the south on the Pacific Ocean.
The constitutional court of Guatemala has prevented the deployment of the UN Anti-Corruption Commission leader (CICIG) on Sunday. President Jimmy Morales had ordered a video on Twitter Ivan Velasquez, the head of the influential team that began researching the financing of the 2015 election campaign, immediately threw out the country.
At a hospital in Guatemala, six people died when a criminal gang opened the fire.
In Panama, 64 people were arrested for suspicion of drug and drug trafficking. Four tonnes of cocaine have been seized, after a two-year trial.
Certainly sixteen people died on Sunday night (local time) by a bus accident in southern Mexico. Thirty others got injured. The bus hit the Motozintla mountains from the road and collapsed in a ravine, local authorities reported Monday.
In Guatemala, the state of emergency has been declared in the vicinity of the Vuurvulkanan. The Volcán de Fuego came out for the fourth time this year and burst a two kilometer high ash cloud.
The fugitive Mexican ex-governor Javier Duarte was arrested Saturday in Guatemala. Police arrested the Mexican in the lobby of a hotel in Panajachel, reported the authorities.
Police in Guatemala on Monday three people arrested following the fire in a children's home, where forty girls were killed. It is, according to local media to the director of the orphanage, to the former Minister of Social Welfare Carlos Rodas and his deputy minister Anahi Keller.
The death toll from the fire rose to 39 victims in a shelter for children in Guatemala. Several children are still in critical condition in hospital.
The victims of the fire were a shelter for children in Guatemala imprisoned for punishment in a crowded room and therefore could not move. Altogether 52 girls were by the leadership of the home in the sixteen square meters separately put large space after riots.
The fire Wednesday at a shelter for children appears to thirty people in Guatemala living have cost. It is learned from medical circles. The victims are mostly girls. Seventeen children lying with very severe burns in hospital.
A fire in a home in San Jose Pinula, near Guatemala City, are Wednesday at least nine children died. This was announced by the local fire department. There are also several cases injured.
The United States has the former Guatemalan Vice President Roxana Baldetti and former Minister Mauricio Lopez Bonilla sued for drug smuggling. The US Embassy announced this Friday that, according to the Guatemalan newspaper La Prensa Libre.
Mexico will not participate in the plan of US President Donald Trump to millions of illegal immigrants to deport. Interior Minister Ángel Osorio Chong said Friday that Mexico no illegals will accept if it does not have the Mexican nationality.
The abortion boat of the Dutch organization Women on Waves is held since Thursday by the navy of Guatemala. Soldiers on Thursday a press conference of the organization in Marina Pez Vela, the port of the town of Puerto San Jose, stopped and block access to the ship, as Women on Waves says on the website.
The United States does not deport illegal immigrants on a large scale and will abide by the law. However, there will be expelled sooner people the country than has happened in the last decade. Development minister John Kelly of Homeland Security said Wednesday during his visit to Guatemala.
A Canadian who had been missing for five years is 10,000 kilometers from where he was last seen resurfaced in Brazil. He would have enormous distance traveled on foot over the years.
The Mexican authorities have found 110 asylum seekers in a truck. That happened after the truck in another vehicle had crashed in the east of the country.
A former Minister of Finance of Guatemala's more or less accidentally killed in a raid by the police during an anti-corruption operation. The former Minister Pavel Centeno stood for unclear reasons in a house where police raided and was slain by police bullets.
A Japanese truck driver who played while driving game Pokemon Go, has killed a pedestrian and injured another woman.
Netherlands also has a fourth round of voting at the United Nations insufficiently countries got behind him for a seat in the Security Council of the international organization. Netherlands got 96 of the required votes, one more than Italy. A fifth vote began immediately after the result. Now may also be voted on countries other than the Netherlands and Italy.
Under the rubble of a collapsed dump in Guatemala are still at least 24 people. Which have informed the authorities in the capital, Guatemala City know. Hundreds of men and women were surprised two days ago when the garbage dump, where are dumped daily 500 truckloads, collapsed. There are recovered four dead.
