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America's manufacturing and partnerships with Central America illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

America’s manufacturing future lies in partnership with Central America

By Juan J. Daboub

Guatemalan journalist Jose Ruben Zamora, founder of El Periodico newspaper, jailed for more than two years on money laundering charges, talks with reporters before attending a hearing to ask the judge to serve his detention at home while his judicial process continues, in Guatemala City, Friday, Oct. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemalan judge grants investigative journalist Zamora house arrest and his family celebrates

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Migrants walk along the highway through Suchiate, Chiapas state in southern Mexico, July 21, 2024, during their journey north toward the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente, File)

U.S. expands area in Mexico to apply for border asylum appointments, hoping to slow push north

By Edgar H. Clemente and María Verza - Associated Press

Locals in Guatemala offer sodas to Mexicans who fled their town of Amatenango, Mexico and crossed the border to Ampliación Nueva Reforma, Guatemala, to escape cartel violence in Mexico, Thursday, July 25, 2024. Some refugees are staying at the school and others at locals' homes. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy)

Mexico’s president downplays cartel violence that drove nearly 600 Mexicans into Guatemala

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Guatemalan soldiers stand guard in Ampliación Nueva Reforma, Huehuetenango, Guatemala, where Mexicans from the town of Amatenango, Mexico fled due to cartel violence in their country across the border, Thursday, July 25, 2024. Some refugees are staying at the school and others at locals' homes. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy)

Catholic Church leaders in Mexico call for protection of people from cartel violence near Guatemala

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Migrants seeking asylum line up while waiting to be processed after crossing the border June 5, 2024, in San Diego, Calif. Over the course of two weeks, President Joe Biden has imposed significant restrictions on immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. and then offered potential citizenship to hundreds of thousands of people without legal status already living in the country. The two actions in tandem gives the president a chance to address one of the biggest vulnerabilities for his reelection campaign. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia, File)

Migrants paying record-high $50,000 to $100,000 to be smuggled into U.S.

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Olivia Orozco Lopez cries as she holds a portrait of her late daughter Celestina Carolina during an interview in the Culvilla hamlet of Tejutla, Guatemala, Tuesday, March 19, 2024. Carolina died asphyxiated alongside 50 other migrants in a smuggler's trailer truck in San Antonio, Texas in June 2022. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Desperate young Guatemalans try to reach the U.S. even after horrific deaths of migrating relatives

By Giovanna Dell'Orto - Associated Press

Migrants from Haiti, Africa, and Central America wait to see if their number will be called to cross the border and apply for asylum in the United States, at the El Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, Friday, Sept. 13, 2019. Dozens of immigrants lined up Friday at a major Tijuana border crossing waiting to learn how the Trump administration's radical new restrictions on who qualifies for asylum would affect the tens of thousands of migrants stuck on the Mexican border seeking refuge.(AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

Federal audit dings Kamala Harris’ border czar plan to tackle ‘root cause’ of illegal immigration

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Incoming Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo acknowledges the crowd after receiving the presidential sash during his swearing-in ceremony in Guatemala City, early Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Biden, Harris, congratulate new Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo on inauguration

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Bernardo Arévalo listens the national anthem as he is acknowledged by the Army as the commander and chief at Constitution square in Guatemala City, Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, the morning after his inauguration. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Who is Guatemala’s new president and can he deliver on promised change?

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Luis Pacheco, President of the K'iche' Indigenous organization "48 Cantones de Totonicapan," poses for photos with Mayors, who are members of the organization, outside the Attorney General´s headquarters in Guatemala City, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. The “48 Cantones de Totonicapán” is an Indigenous organization that has been leading the national protests asking for the resignation of Guatemala´s Attorney General Consuelo Porras for her attempts to invalidate the recent presidential election. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Indigenous leader of Guatemalan protests says they are defending democracy after election

By Sonia Pérez D. - Associated Press

Indigenous people march for the resignation of the Attorney General Consuelo Porras in Guatemala City, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. President-elect Bernardo Arévalo has called people to protest efforts to derail his presidency before he can take office and for the attorney general's resignation due to its office's investigations related to the registration of Arévalo’s Seed Movement party, and alleged fraud in the election. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Supporters of Guatemala’s president-elect block highways and roads to protest prosecution

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Indigenous people march for the resignation of the Attorney General Consuelo Porras in Guatemala City, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. President-elect Bernardo Arévalo has called people to protest efforts to derail his presidency before he can take office and for the attorney general's resignation, due to its office's investigations related to the registration of Arévalo's Seed Movement party, and alleged fraud in the election. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Indigenous supporters march to defend Guatemala’s president-elect amid vote fraud allegations

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President-elect and current congressman Bernardo Arévalo shakes hands with a street vendor as he leaves the Congress in Guatemala City, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023. Guatemala's Congress, which is controlled by the currently governing party, on Wednesday refused to recognize the seven lawmakers from Arevalo's Seed Movement party, following the suspension of the party earlier this week. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

OAS says legal actions in Guatemala appear aimed at keeping president-elect from taking power

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President-elect Bernardo Arevalo, right, and his Vice President Karin Herrera give a press conference in Guatemala City, Monday, Aug. 28, 2023. The Central American country's top electoral tribunal declared Arevalo the winner of the presidential election just hours after another part of the government suspended his Seed Movement party. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemala’s president-elect faces legal challenges that seek to weaken him. Here’s what’s happening

By Sonia Pérez D. - Associated Press

Bernardo Arévalo, presidential candidate with Seed Movement party, speaks during his closing campaign rally at Constitution square in Guatemala City, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023. Arevalo faces rival and former first lady Sandra Torres of the UNE party in the Aug. 20 runoff election. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Allies say Guatemala election winner is a highly qualified peacebuilder, but opponent’s still silent

By Christopher Sherman and Sonia Pérez D. - Associated Press

A supporter of presidential candidate Bernardo Arevalo celebrates her candidate's expected victory in the runoff presidential election in Guatemala City, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023. Guatemalan Supreme Electoral Tribunal Magistrate Blanca Alfaro called Arevalo the "virtual winner" and called for an immediate national dialogue to begin to reconcile the country's deep political divides. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy)

Guatemala elects progressive Arevalo as president but there are legal moves to block him from office

By Christopher Sherman and Sonia Pérez D. - Associated Press

This photo combo of file images shows from left, Sandra Torres, National Unity of Hope, UNE, presidential candidate, in Guatemala City, Aug. 18, 2023, and Bernardo Arévalo, Seed Movement presidential candidate, in Guatemala City, July 13, 2023. Guatemalans head to the polls on Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023, to elect a new president in a runoff election between Arévalo and Torres. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

Guatemalans head to the polls, hoping their new leader will bring real change

By Christopher Sherman and Sonia Perez D. - Associated Press

Supporters hold a photo or former Guatemalan President Juan Jose Arevalo as they listen to his son Bernardo, current presidential candidate with Seed Movement party, during his closing campaign rally at Constitution square in Guatemala City, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023. Arevalo faces rival and former first lady Sandra Torres of the UNE party in the Aug. 20 runoff election. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemalans to choose between political veteran, surprise outsider in presidential runoff

By Christopher Sherman - Associated Press

Sandra Torres, presidential candidate of UNE party, arrives for a campaign rally in San Juan Sacatepequez, Guatemala, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023. Torres will face Bernardo Arévalo of the Seed Movement party in an Aug. 20 runoff election. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemalan presidential candidate Sandra Torres leans on conservative values, opposing gay marriage

By Sonia Perez D. - Associated Press