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A member of Guatemala's attorney general's office raids the headquarters of the country's electoral authority hours after it certified the results of the country's June 25 election in Guatemala City, Thursday, July 13, 2023. The Attorney General's Office said the raid's purpose was to search and seize evidence in the offices of the citizen registry.(AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemala’s political crisis deepens as election tribunal is raided after confirming results

By Sonia Pérez D. - Associated Press

Costa Rica midfielder Josimar Alcócer (8) controls the ball in front of Mexico midfielder Orbelín Pineda (17) and defender Jesús Gallardo (23) during the first half of a CONCACAF Gold Cup soccer quarterfinal Saturday, July 8, 2023, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Sam Hodde)

Mexico beats Costa Rica 2-0, advances to CONCACAF Gold Cup semifinal

Associated Press

Neighbors and voters gather gather at a polling station after electoral authorities delayed it's opening due to alleged electoral violations during general elections in San Jose El Golfo, outskirts of Guatemala City, Sunday, June 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemala voters send 2 presidential candidates from opposite ends of political spectrum to runoff

By Sonia Pérez D. and Christopher Sherman - Associated Press

Supporters of the Valor and Unionista coalition arrive at a closing campaign rally in Guatemala City, Thursday, June 22, 2023. Guatemalans go to the polls on June 25. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemalans are fed up with corruption ahead of an election that may draw many protest votes

By Sonia Pérez D. and Christopher Sherman - Associated Press

María Rosita Yoc Suruy poses for portraits in San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala, Tuesday, June 20, 2023. The 56-year-old homemaker said she planned to vote in the presidential race on June 25, though she had not entirely decided who to vote for. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemalans worry about security, unimpressed by leading candidates ahead of election

By Christopher Sherman - Associated Press

Former first lady Sandra Torres, National Unity of Hope presidential candidate, is greeted by supporters during a campaign rally in Amatitlan, Guatemala, May 14, 2023. Guatemalans go to the polls on June 25. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

Guatemala prepares to vote after a tumultuous presidential campaign

By Sonia Pérez D. - Associated Press

Supporters pose for photos with a banner of Carlos Pineda, presidential candidate of the Prosperidad Ciudadana party, prior to a campaign rally in Guatemala City, Sunday, May 14, 2023. Pineda has sent an “open letter” video to El Salvador´s President Nayib Bukele praising many of the president’s most controversial measures. “I have the goal of doing in Guatemala exactly what you are doing in El Salvador,” he said. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemala’s presidential hopefuls channel heavy-handed tactics of El Salvador’s leader

By Sonia Pérez D. - Associated Press

Presidential candidate Carlos Pineda, of the Prosperidad Ciudadana party, arrives to the Constitutional Court in Guatemala City, Saturday, May 20, 2023. Pineda seeks to reverse a court decision that has excluded him from the electoral process. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemala’s top court ends candidacy of leading presidential hopeful 1 month before vote

Associated Press

A migrant woman waits between two border walls hoping to apply for asylum, a day after the Title 42 cutoff, as seen from San Diego, May 12, 2023. Mexico is flying migrants south away from the U.S. border to keep migrants from massing in its border cities. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Mexico moving migrants away from borders to relieve pressure

By Maria Verza and Edgar H. Clemente - Associated Press

Texas National Guard soldiers install new rows of barbed-wire near a gate at the border fence in El Paso, Texas, in the early hours of Thursday, May 11, 2023. Migrants rushed across the border hours before pandemic-related asylum restrictions were to expire Thursday, fearing that new policies would make it far more difficult to gain entry into the United States. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

Migrants face new border reality as Title 42 pandemic restrictions expire

By Valerie Gonzalez, Elliot Spagat and Giovanna Dell'Orto - Associated Press

Federal officers remove handcuffs from men before releasing them through a gate in a border wall to Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday, March 15, 2023, in San Diego. Some asylum-seekers who crossed the border from Mexico are waiting 10 years just for a court date. The Border Patrol released people with notices to appear at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office. The move saved the Border Patrol untold hours processing court papers, but it left the job to an agency that had no extra staff for the increased workload. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

U.S. to open foreign centers in bid to stop migration surge

By Rebecca Santana and Colleen Long - Associated Press

A caravan of migrants, most from central America, head north as they depart from Tapachula, Mexico, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021. Immigration activists say they will lead migrants out of the southern Mexico city of Tapachula Saturday at the start of a march they hope will bring them to Mexico City to press their case for better treatment. (AP Photo/ Edgar H. Clemente)

Foreign aid won’t stem illegal immigration

By Max Primorac

Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen waves as she arrives at a hotel, in New York, Thursday, March 30, 2023, a day before flying to Central America. Tsai’s stops in Guatemala and Belize are expected to shore up Taiwan’s partnerships there, after Honduras in mid-March switched its diplomatic relations from Taiwan to China. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Taiwan leader scrambles for allies in Central America visit

By Megan Janetsky - Associated Press

Guatemala used U.S. military jeeps to intimidate American diplomats

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - A Mexican smuggler guides a Haitian family across the Morelos Dam over the Colorado River from Los Algodones, Mexico, on Feb. 4, 2022, to Yuma, Ariz., on the other side. Chris Magnus has many challenges to overcome in his new role as commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. In an interview with The Associated Press, Magnus acknowledged morale problems within the nation's largest law enforcement agency but offered no quick answers to the heavy migration flow to the U.S., which attracts more asylum seekers than any other country. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat, File)

Hidden inflation on Biden’s watch: Prices in migrant smuggling economy soar to $2.6 billion

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Migrants gather their personal items as they wait to be processed by the Border Patrol after illegally crossing the Rio Grande River from Mexico into the United States at Eagle Pass, Texas, Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. Venezuelans have surpassed Guatemalans and Hondurans to become the second-largest nationality stopped at the U.S. border in August 2022 after Mexicans. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

$20 billion payday: Biden’s border surge sends smuggling prices soaring

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

An agent hops out of a vehicle during a police raid against alleged migrant smugglers near the Mexican border in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022.Guatemalan authorities have arrested more than a dozen alleged members of a migrant smuggling network near the shared border with Mexico. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Feds announce bust of Guatemalan migrant-smuggling ring

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Mynor Cardona shows a photo on his cellphone of her daughter, Yenifer Yulisa Cardona Tomás, at the hospital while receiving a visit, in Guatemala City, Monday, July 4, 2022. Yenifer Yulisa Cardona Tomás is one of the survivors of the more than 50 migrants who were found dead inside a tractor-trailer near San Antonio, Texas. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

A survivor of the migrant trailer says people ‘couldn’t breathe’

By Sonia Perez D. - Associated Press

In this Jan. 19, 2021, file photo, a Honduran migrant child is helped off an Army truck after being returned to El Florido, Guatemala, one of the border points between Guatemala and Honduras. The reasons Hondurans continue to flee their country have been well documented: pervasive violence, deep-seated corruption, lack of jobs and widespread destruction from two major hurricanes that struck the region last November. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros, File)

Federal study predicts Biden’s plan to curb immigration onslaught is doomed to fail

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to the traveling press corps, Tuesday, June 8, 2021, at the Sofitel Mexico City Reforma in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Harris, under fire, says she’ll visit U.S.-Mexico border someday

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times