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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

This image released by Lionsgate shows a scene from “El Norte,” the 1984 classic movie about Latin American immigration to the U.S. A one-day showing of the film is scheduled for Sept. 15 at more than 200 U.S. theaters. (Lionsgate via AP)

Immigration tale ‘El Norte’ returning to theaters for 1 day

By ANITA SNOW - Associated Press

Guatemala declares state of emergency after soldiers killed

Associated Press

An activist holds a sing that reads in Spanish &quot;Thanks CICIG&quot; at the United Nations International Commission Against Impunity headquarters in Guatemala City, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019. The UN mission is closing its operation after 12 years. It brought to trial three former presidents and hundreds of businessmen, officials, judges and individuals accused of corruption in the Central American country. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemala bids goodbye to UN anti-graft body as it wraps up

By SONNY FIGUEROA - Associated Press

Former first lady and former presidential candidate Sandra Torres is escorted by police to the Supreme Court in Guatemala City, Monday, Sept. 2, 2019. Authorities arrested Torres at her home on charges of campaign finance violations. (AP Photo/Oliver De Ros)

Guatemala arrests ex-1st lady, presidential runner-up Torres

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2017 file photo, Ivan Velasquez, commissioner of the United Nations International Commission Against Impunity, poses for a portrait during an interview at CICIG headquarters in Guatemala City. The Colombian lawyer who led the commission starting in 2013, was forced to live outside the Central American nation due to tensions with President Jimmy Morales since 2018, but the impact of his work remains intact and although Morales was successful in putting an end to CICIG after 12 years of operations, Velásquez says he is satisfied. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

AP Interview: Guatemala graft body’s chief happy despite end

By SONIA PÉREZ D. and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Workers move out items on a dolly as the United Nations International Commission Against Impunity, CICIG, moves out of its headquarters in Guatemala City, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019. The UN mission it's closing after 12 years of operation in Guatemala. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

In final report, UN body says Guatemala ‘captured’ by graft

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

Guatemala Border Agreement Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

How Guatemala’s asylum agreement can help Trump’s reelection

By Steve Hecht

Guatemala's President-elect Alejandro Giammattei gives an interview in Guatemala City, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019. Giammattei said Tuesday that Guatemala will not be able to hold up its side of an immigration agreement with the United States by serving as a “safe third country” for asylum seekers. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

Alejandro Giammattei, president-elect, says Guatemala can’t do migrant deal with U.S.

By Sonia Perez D. - Associated Press

Alejandro Giammatei, presidential candidate of the Vamos party, arrives to the Electoral Supreme Court headquarters for interviews with the press, as his security detail make way for him through the crowd after partial election results were announced in Guatemala City, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019. Giammattei headed for a victory in Sunday’s presidential runoff election, garnering favor with voters for his get-tough approach on crime and socially conservative values. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

President-elect says Guatemala can’t do migrant deal with US

By SONIA PEREZ D. - Associated Press

Alejandro Giammatei, presidential candidate of the Vamos party, arrives to the Electoral Supreme Court headquarters for interviews with the press after partial election results were announced in Guatemala City, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019. Giammattei headed for a victory in Sunday’s presidential runoff election, garnering favor with voters for his get-tough approach on crime and socially conservative values. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

Guatemalans worry about graft after Giammattei wins election

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

Women wait at a bus stop in the central park, of San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala, Sunday, August 4, 2019. San Martin Jilotepeque, like other towns in Guatemala, depends to a large extent on remittances, the money sent home by migrants living in the United States. (AP Photo/ Oliver de Ros)

Migration, corruption hover over Guatemala presidential vote

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

Pelosi delegation visits Central America amid migrant crisis

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

A hooded agronomy student protests outside the hotel where lawmakers are gathered and expected to vote on a deal that Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales' government signed with Washington that would force Salvadoran and Honduran migrants to request asylum in Guatemala instead of the United States, in Guatemala City, Wednesday, July 31, 2019. Critics of the deal point out that Guatemala has the same problems that are driving Hondurans and Salvadorans to flee their homes: violence, poverty, joblessness and a prolonged drought that has severely hurt farmers. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

US DHS chief, Guatemala president meet on asylum agreement

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

President Jimmy Morales signed an accord that designates Guatemala as a "safe third country." As a result, migrants passing through Guatemala from countries such as Honduras and El Salvador have to seek refuge in Guatemala before pushing on to the United States. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump, Guatemala’s Jimmy Morales sign migrant accord that gives hope for more trade

By Moss Brennan - The Washington Times - The Washington Times

The Spanish message &quot;I refuse to live in a dictatorship&quot; hangs outside the University Museum where students closed access to the museum to protest a deal Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales' government signed with Washington forcing Salvadorans and Hondurans to request asylum in Guatemala instead of the United States, in Guatemala City, Tuesday, July 30, 2019. Prior to the signing, the Constitutional Court had granted three injunctions ordering the government not to enter into a deal without approval from the country's Congress — a ruling it ignored. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

US Homeland Security discusses asylum agreement in Guatemala

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

In this July 24, 2019 photo, Ruth poses outside her place of business in Los Angeles. Ruth's brothers, Carlos and Juan, from Guatemala were held inside jam-packed U.S. Border Patrol cells for about 30 days in South Texas after crossing the border illegally. It’s a pattern that immigration lawyers say has repeated itself for several weeks: Adults are detained in packed Border Patrol cells, malnourished, poorly treated and incommunicado, only to be moved within hours once the government is sued on their behalf. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Border Patrol detains adults with no end - until lawyers sue

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

Immigrants taking sanctuary in churches hit with huge fines

By REGINA GARCIA CANO - Associated Press

Demonstrators demand the resignation of Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales, one wearing a T-shirt of Morales as a clown, outside the Presidential House in Guatemala City, Saturday, July 27, 2019. Demonstrators are protesting an agreement their government signed with Washington to require migrants passing through the Central American country to seek asylum there, rather than pushing on to the U.S. Before becoming president, Morales was a professional comedian. (AP Photo/ Oliver de Ros)

Guatemala official seeks to nullify asylum deal with US

By SONNY FIGUEROA - Associated Press

President Trump announced Friday that Guatemala would be signing an agreement to restrict asylum applications to the U.S. from Central America. (Associated Press)

Trump immigration policy on winning streak in courts

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times