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News Guatemala » Guatemala » Politics: Guatemala agrees joint US military strikes on drug gangs in major escalation

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Published on: Saturday 30 May 2026

President Bernardo Arévalo has agreed to strikes as early as June.

News Guatemala » Guatemala » Politics: Indigenous people lead Guatemala protests against election interference

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Published on: Monday 09 October 2023

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A long line of commercial trucks that were headed south on Highway 2 are stranded near Santa Cruz Muluá, Guatemala on Oct. 8, 2023 ...

News Guatemala » Guatemala » Politics: Guatemala denies agreeing to joint US strikes aimed at stopping drug trafficking

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Published on: Saturday 30 May 2026

Guatemala denied reports it had agreed to joint strikes with the US on alleged drug traffickers in the country, but admitted it requested Washington's help.

News Guatemala » Guatemala » Politics: UN: Criminal groups fund 25 percent of Guatemala’s politics

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Published on: Thursday 16 July 2015

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A quarter of the money fueling Guatemalan politics comes from criminal organizations, primarily drug traffickers, according to a report released Thursday by a United Nations ...

News Guatemala » Guatemala » Politics: Guatemala says it suggested that U.S. send its unaccompanied migrant children home

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Published on: Sunday 31 August 2025

After planes with Guatemalan children were loaded in the U.S., then prevented from taking off by a federal judge's decision to temporarily halt the children's removal, the Guatemalan government said ...

News Guatemala » Guatemala » Politics: After US talks, Nicaragua expels dozens of political prisoners to Guatemala

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Published on: Thursday 05 September 2024

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alba summit, in Caracas WASHINGTON/GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) -The United States secured the release of dozens of political ...

News Guatemala » Guatemala » Politics: Political eruption in Guatemala

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Published on: Wednesday 21 December 2016

National palace of culture. Guatemala city. Public domain. Like many other Latin American countries, Guatemala has a very repressive political history. After years of dictatorship and intense armed ...

News Guatemala » Guatemala » Politics: Democratic Institutions in Guatemala: Theory and Practice

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Published on: Sunday 19 April 2026

Democratic Institutions in Guatemala: Theory and Practice advances knowledge about Guatemala's democracy by embedding the country in recent conceptual and theoretical work in comparative politics.