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Honduran migrants walking in a group stop before Guatemalan police near Agua Caliente, Guatemala, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020, on the border with Honduras. Less-organized migrants, tighter immigration control by Guatemalan authorities and the presence of U.S. advisers have reduced the likelihood that the hundreds of migrants who departed Honduras will form anything like the cohesive procession the term “caravan” now conjures. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy)

Mexico readies for Central American migrants at south border

By MARÍA VERZA and SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

A group of migrants walks trying to make it to the United States, near El Cinchado, Guatemala, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020, on the border with Honduras. Hundreds of mainly Honduran migrants started walking and hitching rides from the city of San Pedro Sula and crossed the Guatemala border in a bid to form the kind of migrant caravan that reached the U.S. border in 2018. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemala sweeps up migrant group, returns them to border

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

Alejandro Giammattei waves to the crowd accompanied by his daughter Ana Marcela after he was sworn-in as president of Guatemala at the National Theater in Guatemala City, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020. Guatemala swears in Giammattei, a conservative physician opposed to gay marriage and abortion, as its new president Tuesday while the country's outgoing leader exits amid swirling corruption accusations. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemala breaks off diplomatic relations with Venezuela

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Guatemala: former minister, lawmakers face graft probes

By SONNY FIGUEROA - Associated Press

Migrants ride on top of a truck moving along the highway, in hopes of reaching the distant United States, from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, early Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020. Hundreds of Honduran migrants started walking and hitching rides Wednesday from the city of San Pedro Sula, in a bid to form the kind of migrant caravan that reached the U.S. border in 2018. (AP Photo/Delmer Martinez)

100s of migrants advance to Guatemala from Honduras

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2018 file photo, migrants discuss their journey using a map posted inside the sports complex where thousands of migrants have been camped out for several days in Mexico City. The United States began sending Honduran and Salvadoran asylum seekers to Guatemala in November 2019 and in Jan. 2020 said it would expand it to Mexicans. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

AP Explains: US sending asylum seekers to Central America

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

Guatemala's President-elect Alejandro Giammattei gives a press conference at the National Theatre, the day before his inauguration in Guatemala City, Monday, Jan. 13, 2020. Giammattei will be sworn-in as the 51st president of Guatemala on Jan. 14. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemala swears in conservative Giammattei as president

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

In this Monday, Dec. 16, 2019 photo, Augustana biology professor Craig Spencer holds part of the Bejuco de agua plant at Jones421 in Sioux Falls, S.D. Through the Guatemala Maya Cross Project the plant is harvested in order to create handmade items. The proceeds from the sales are given to the artisans in Guatemala in an effort to reduce the rate of poverty. (Abigail Dollins

Nonprofit builds bridges between South Dakota, Guatemala

By KATIE NELSON - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020, photo people seeking asylum in the United States wait at the border crossing bridge in Tijuana, Mexico, just across the border from San Diego. The number of people arrested or stopped entering the U.S. along the Mexico border fell for a seventh straight month in December, with Mexicans making up a larger than usual part of the mix, authorities said Thursday. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat)

US border arrests drop as focus turns to Mexicans

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

File - In this Jan. 7, 2019 file photo, Guatemala's President Jimmy Morales gives a statement, at the National Palace in Guatemala City. Outgoing President Morales says his government has not agreed to receive Mexicans who had sought asylum in the United States. Morales, whose presidency ends next week, said that he had told U.S. officials that would have to be negotiated with his successor. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

Guatemala president says no deal to send Mexicans there

By SONNY FIGUEROA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2019 photo, migrants rest at &quot;La Roca,&quot; or The Rock shelter in Nogales, Sonora state, Mexico, near the border fence, top left, that separates Mexico from the U.S. As the U.S. moved aggressively over the past year to sharply reduce the number of asylum seekers arriving at its southwest border, Mexicans were spared, but now Mexico is expressing its displeasure at U.S. plans to send Mexican asylum seekers some 2,000 miles south to Guatemala. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

Mexico upset by US plan to send Mexicans to Guatemala

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad F. Wolf, center, walks after a conference with interior ministers of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala in Guatemala City, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/ Oliver de Ros)

US sends first non-Guatemalan migrant families to Guatemala

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

AP Explains: A look at El Salvador’s new anti-graft body

By MARCOS ALEMÁN - Associated Press

In this June 22, 2016, file photo, Border Patrol agent Eduardo Olmos walks near the secondary fence separating Tijuana, Mexico, background, and San Diego in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Donald Trump, Mexico squash border surge after Democrats balk

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

This Friday, Nov. 29, 2019, photo provided by the Marion County Sheriff's Office shows the scene of a deadly motor vehicle crash in Salem, Ore. A van carrying Guatemala workers collided with a pickup truck at an Oregon intersection. (Marion County Sheriff's Office via AP)

Sheriff: 3 Guatemalan Christmas tree workers killed in crash

By ANDREW SELSKY - Associated Press

Avianca cargo employees work to offload three Bengal tigers that were rescued from Guatemala at the Miami International Airport on Monday, Nov. 25, 2019. Max, Simba and Kimba, who were rescued from a circus in Guatemala by Animal Defenders International, are being sent to an animal sanctuary, Big Cat Rescue, in Tampa. (Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald via AP)

3 circus tigers abused in Guatemala have found a new home

By MICHELLE MARCHANTE - Associated Press

The first Central American asylum seeker sent to Guatemala under that country's &quot;safe third country&quot; agreement with the U.S., Erwin Jose Ardon, center, is welcomed home by his father Santos Ardon, in Colon, Honduras, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2019. Erwin opted to return to his home in Honduras but said he hopes to perhaps set out again next year for the U.S., where his daughter was born seven months ago. (AP Photo/ Elmer Martinez)

Central American offered asylum in Guatemala opts for home

By MARLON GONZALEZ - Associated Press

A woman looks over at a Guatemalan man who was deported from the United States, as he waits for a taxi after arriving in Guatemala City, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019. Guatemala’s Foreign Ministry said a Honduran asylum seeker has also been returned by the United States to pursue asylum in Guatemala for the first time under an agreement signed in July. The Honduran man, who was not identified, had reached the U.S. border but was sent to Guatemala Thursday. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

1st Honduran returned to Guatemala under US asylum accord

By SONIA PEREZ D. - Associated Press

Pedestrians walk alongside a highway that has been blocked by supporters of former President Evo Morales, in El Alto, Bolivia, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019. In self-exile in Mexico after resigning under pressure from the armed forces, Morales says he would be willing to return to Bolivia, and his supporters are making a show of force in the streets while his party controls a majority in both houses of Congress. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

The Latest: UN sends envoy to help with Bolivia crisis

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FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2019 file photo, Guatemala's President-elect Alejandro Giammattei gives an interview in Guatemala City. Giammattei says officials have blocked him from entering Venezuela on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019, where he planned to meet opposition politician Juan Guaido, a foe of socialist leader Nicolas Maduro. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros, File)

Venezuela denies entry of Guatemala’s president-elect

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ and CAMILLE RODRÍGUEZ MONTILLA - Associated Press