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Relatives attend a memorial Mass for the Guatemalan migrants who were killed near the U.S.-Mexico border in January, at a soccer stadium in Comitancillo, Guatemala, Friday, March 12, 2021. The migrants were among 19 people shot and burned in Camargo, located in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas on Jan. 22. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Families begin burying murdered Guatemalan migrants

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

Guatemala presidents picks chief of staff for top court seat

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2019 file photo, Guatemalan judge for high-risk crimes Erika Aifan poses for photos at her courtroom in Guatemala City. On March 8, 2021, the U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will virtually host the annual ceremony for the International Women of Courage (IWOC) Awards to honor a group of exceptional women from around the world, including Aifan. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

3 female Guatemalan judges defend rule of law

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

Peace Corps at 60: Service changed lives of local volunteers

By RICK DANDES and The (Sunbury) Daily Item - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, March 2, 2021, file photo, law enforcement officers work at the scene of a deadly crash in Holtville, Calif. Nine migrants in an SUV packed with 25 people that drove through an opening in a border wall suffered major injuries after their vehicle slammed into a tractor-trailer and killed 13 others inside, the California Highway Patrol said Thursday, March 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Guatemala woman, 23, is among 13 killed in California crash

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Guatemala begins reshaping court; corruption concerns grow

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

Guatemalans outraged by fake COVID-19 tests

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Guatemala: US ending accord that sent asylum seekers back

By SONIA PEREZ D. - Associated Press

Maria Macario pauses as she talks about her family during an interview at the First Parish church, Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, in Bedford, Mass. For three years, Macario has been too afraid to leave the confines of the church, which she moved in to avoid deportation, spending most of her time in a converted Sunday school classroom stocked with a hot plate, mini-fridge, TV and single bed. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Immigrants in sanctuary in churches hope Biden offers relief

By PHILIP MARCELO and SOPHIA TAREEN and JIM SALTER - Associated Press

Guatemalan native graduates early, earns permanent residence

By BLAKE ALSUP and Daily Journal - Associated Press

Saidy Aguilon is reflected in the window of a home in Comitancillo, Guatemala, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. She believes that her husband is one of the charred corpses found in a northern Mexico border state on Saturday. The country's Foreign Ministry said it was collecting DNA samples from a dozen relatives to see if there was a match with any of the bodies. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

In Guatemala, families say 13 killed in Mexico were migrants

By SANTIAGO BILLY - Associated Press

A Honduran migrant wearing a hat with the stars and stripes, poses for a photo at a road block manned by Guatemalan soldiers and police, on the highway in Vado Hondo, Guatemala, Monday, Jan. 18, 2021. Some migrants threw rocks while authorities launched tear gas and pushed the migrants with their riot shields back down the highway. (AP Photo/Sandra Sebastian)

Large migrant caravan dissolves in Guatemala

By OLIVER DE ROS and SANTIAGO BILLY - Associated Press

Strong 5.9-magnitude quake shakes Guatemala

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Children shorten the line for illegal immigrants entering the U.S. President-elect Joseph R. Biden, who takes office in two weeks, said he would go slow on curtailing detention and reversing some Trump policies that have helped ease catch-and-release. (Associated Press photograph) **FILE**

Illegals use children as immigration loophole to avoid deportation, DHS confirms

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2020, file photo, a resident walking through a flooded street looks back at storm damage caused by Hurricane Eta in Planeta, Honduras. As Eta moved back over Caribbean waters, governments in Central America worked to tally the displaced and dead, and recover bodies from landslides and flooding that claimed dozens of lives from Guatemala to Panama. This year has seen record Atlantic hurricanes and western wildfires, devastating floods in Asia and Africa and a hot, melting Arctic. It's not just been a disastrous year, but a year of disasters. (AP Photo/Delmer Martinez, File)

Hondurans forming migrant caravan for US stopped in homeland

By CLAUDIO ESCALÓN - Associated Press

Guatemala COVID-19 chief headed back to Colorado medical job

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Debris lays in front of graffiti that reads in Spanish &quot;Corrupt,&quot; outside of the Congress building that was damaged during protests in Guatemala City, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. Protesters broke into the building and set it partially on fire amid growing demonstrations against President Alejandro Giammattei and the legislature for approving a controversial budget that cut educational and health spending. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemala condemns fire at Congress; 12 injured in protests

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

Clouds of smoke shoot out from the Congress building after protesters set it on fire, in Guatemala City, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020. Hundreds of protesters were protesting in various parts of the country Saturday against Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei and members of Congress for the approval of the 2021 budget that reduced funds for education, health and the fight for human rights. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Protesters torch Guatemala’s Congress building amid unrest

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

In this June 17, 2018, file photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, sit in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas. A federal judge on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, urged the Trump administration to do more to help court-appointed researchers find hundreds of parents who were separated from their children after they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border beginning in 2017. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP, File)

Fake families expose border child separation problem

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A rescue dog and his handler search for survivors amid the destruction caused by a massive, rain-fueled landslide in the village of Queja, in Guatemala, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Eta. (Esteban Biba/Pool Photo via AP)

Guatemala landslide could be final resting place for many

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press