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One year on, Honduras prison massacre survivors still reeling
AFP News via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoSamantha still does not know how she survived the slaughter of 46 fellow inmates in a brutal gang...
Guatemala's new government makes extortion its top security priority
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 5 months agoGuatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo’s new administration says it will make addressing widespread...
Regulation change means US gun sales to Guatemala have doubled in last three years, increasing...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA sharp rise in the sale of semiautomatic firearms to Guatelama over the last three years has made...
General goes on trial for genocide, 40 years after Guatemala’s bloody civil war
CNN via Yahoo News· 3 months agoJuan Brito López was in his mid-20s when soldiers rushed into his home in the village of Pexla,...
Gang slaughtered 46 women at Honduran prison with machetes, guns and flammable liquid, official says
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoGang members in a women’s prison in Honduras slaughtered 46 other women inmates by spraying them...
Federal prosecutors charge MS-13 drug suspects linked to Mexican Mafia leader
LA Times via Yahoo News· 8 months agoFederal authorities in Los Angeles charged 23 suspected members and associates of the MS-13 gang,...
Man pleads guilty to embezzling millions meant to fund Guatemala forestry projects
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 5 months agoA man who managed two forestry projects in Guatemala for a New Hampshire-based investment company has pleaded guilty in federal court to stealing $10 million from the business. Roberto Montano ...
US jails Honduran ex-president for 45 years on drug charges
AFP News via Yahoo News· 1 week agoA court in New York on Wednesday sentenced former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez to 45...
Guatemalan appeals court revokes order to grant house arrest to journalist José Rubén Zamora
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 week agoA Guatemalan appeals court on Tuesday revoked a judge's order to give house arrest to journalist...
Mexico’s next president will be a woman. But violence has overshadowed the glass ceiling being...
CNN via Yahoo News· 1 month agoCandidates must convince voters this weekend that they can end impunity in Mexico; around 95% of all...