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FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2018 file photo, a migrant woman helps carry a handmade U.S. flag up the riverbank at the Mexico-U.S. border after getting past Mexican police at the Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, as a group of migrants tries to reach the U.S. Activists, officials and social workers in Central America were staggered by the idea that U.S. President Donald Trump thinks he will help reduce immigration, by cutting off nearly $500 million in aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador; exactly the opposite will happen, they say. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

US aid cuts will spur Central America migration, experts say

By MARCOS ALEMAN - Associated Press

In this Jan. 31, 2019, file photo, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with American manufacturers in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Mick Mulvaney defends Trump Central America aid cuts

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2018, file photo, Annunciation House director Ruben Garcia answers questions from the media after reading a statement from the family of Jakelin Caal Maquin, pictured at left, during a press briefing at Casa Vides in downtown El Paso, Texas. An autopsy has found that the 7-year-old girl from Guatemala who was detained by the U.S. Border Patrol died of a bacterial infection. Jakelin died on Dec. 8, just over a day after she was apprehended by Border Patrol agents with her father. (Rudy Gutierrez/The El Paso Times via AP, File)

Autopsy: Migrant child who died in US custody had infection

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by the Lucie Blackman Trust shows Catherine Shaw, 23, of Witney, England, pictured in an unknown location. Shaw's body was discovered at a mountain overlook called Nariz del Indio, or Indian Nose, nearly a week after she went missing near a Guatemala highland lake popular with travelers, authorities in the Central American nation said Monday, March 11, 2019. (Lucie Blackman Trust via AP)

Autopsy: Tourist died of traumatic brain injury in Guatemala

By SONIA PEREZ D. - Associated Press

Guatemala to open probe into ex-prosecutor turned candidate

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Judge sued over calling immigration on couple’s wedding day

By MARK SCOLFORO - Associated Press

Court clears way for Guatemalan dictator’s daughter to run

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How Castro’s communism drives illegal immigration

By Steve Hecht

Central American immigrants line up to register with Mexican Immigration officials at a shelter in Piedras Negras, Mexico, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. A caravan of about 1,600 Central American migrants camped Tuesday in the Mexican border city of Piedras Negras, just west of Eagle Pass, Texas. The governor of the northern state of Coahuila described the migrants as "asylum seekers," suggesting all had express intentions of surrendering to U.S. authorities. (Jerry Lara/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)

Democrats embrace nation-building in Central America as answer to migrant caravans

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

RETRANSMISSION TO CORRECT NAME TO BRAYAN - Former Guatemalan soccer federation president Brayan Jimenez, center, leaves U.S. District Court in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. Brayan Jimenez, a former head of Guatemalan soccer’s governing body, was sentenced to time served and fined $350,000 after pleading guilty for his role in the FIFA corruption scandal uncovered by U.S. prosecutors. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Former Guatemalan soccer head to forfeit $350,000

By RONALD BLUM - Associated Press

Ex-chief prosecutor to run for president in Guatemala

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Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales, left, and Foreign Minister Sandra Jovel leave the National Palace after attending a welcoming ceremony for ambassadors, in Guatemala City, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. Guatemala's Constitutional Court overruled Morales' decision after all-night deliberations on five appeals, blocking Morales' decision to unilaterally end a U.N. anti-corruption commission. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

47 US Dems ask Trump to sanction Guatemala government

By LUIS ALONSO LUGO - Associated Press

UN anti-corruption body in Guatemala says work lit backlash

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A woman chants slogans against the United Nations International Commission Against Impunity, CICIG, during a rally in Guatemala City, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019. A decade-long, U.N.-assisted anti-corruption effort that brought down a president faced extinction after the Guatemalan government ended the agreement, drawing condemnation Tuesday from transparency and rights groups. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemala court blocks president’s expulsion of UN team

By SONIA PEREZ D. - Associated Press

Guatemala's President Jimmy Morales, center back, and Vice President Jafeth Cabrera walk after a statement at the National Palace in Guatemala City, Monday, Jan. 7, 2019. Guatemala announced that it is going to withdraw from UN-sponsored anti-corruption commission. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Historic Guatemalan anti-corruption battle endangered

By SONIA PEREZ D. - Associated Press

Guatemala's President Jimmy Morales, flanked by his cabinet, gives a statement at the National Palace in Guatemala City, Monday, Jan. 7, 2019. Guatemala announced that it is going to withdraw from UN-sponsored anti-corruption commission. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemala pulls out of UN corruption body, expels members

By SONIA PEREZ D. and JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

A caravan carrying Colombian national Yilen Osorio, a member of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) leaves the La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019. Authorities in Guatemala were holding Osorio, a member of the U.N.-sponsored anti-corruption commission in the capital's airport on Sunday, refusing him entry to the country in an escalation of tensions between the government and the commission. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy)

Court orders Guatemala to let UN investigator enter

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A caravan carrying Colombian national Yilen Osorio, a member of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) leaves the La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019. Authorities in Guatemala were holding Osorio, a member of the U.N.-sponsored anti-corruption commission in the capital's airport on Sunday, refusing him entry to the country in an escalation of tensions between the government and the commission. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy)

The Latest: UN rebuffs Guatemala’s pullout from commission

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A caravan carrying Colombian national Yilen Osorio, a member of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) leaves the La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019. Authorities in Guatemala were holding Osorio, a member of the U.N.-sponsored anti-corruption commission in the capital's airport on Sunday, refusing him entry to the country in an escalation of tensions between the government and the commission. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy)

Guatemala to withdraw from UN anti-corruption commission

By SONIA PEREZ D. and JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

Prosecutors of the Guatemalan Attorney General's office take position inside the La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City, late Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019. The Guatemalan government banned the entry of Yilen Osorio, an official of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) and keeps it in the facilities of the La Aurora International Airport, despite the fact that the Constitutional Court ordered that they be granted visas and access to the members of the organism. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy)

Guatemala bars entry to UN-sponsored corruption investigator

By SONNY FIGUEROA and SONIA PEREZ D. - Associated Press