“The bus lost control while traveling on the route… It crashed into two sedan-type vehicles that were waiting at the traffic light,” Hernández detailed, describing the moment of the accident. Related: Cuba: Six Dead in Bus Accident in Ciego de Ávila Guatemala is in mourning following a tragic bus accident that occurred early this morning […]

President Arevalo announced that his country would accept deported migrants of other nationalities from the U.S. On Wednesday, President Bernardo Arevalo held a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was visiting Guatemala. RELATED: Magnitude 6.3 Earthquake Hits El Salvador, Also Noticeable in Guatemala After the meeting, Arevalo announced that his country would […]

Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo de León on Tuesday referred to the release of journalist José Rubén Zamora. Zamora spent more than 800 days in prison. The president called for an end to the “spurious persecution.” such as that of the former deputy of the Semilla party, Ligia Hernández. Related:Traffic Accident in Southern Guatemala Leaves 6 […]

In 1999, the U.S. revealed the ‘Military Diary’ that recorded extrajudicial executions committed between 1983 and 1985. On Tuesday, the Mission of Solidarity from Belgium began a visit to Guatemala to deliver the life sentences handed down by a court in Leuven against five high-ranking former military officers for the murder, disappearance, and torture of […]

The rainy season in Guatemala has left 28 people dead and just over 26,000 people evacuated since May, official sources reported on Monday. Related:Guatemala Launches Measles And Polio Vaccination Campaign In Indigenous Regions The National Coordination for Disaster Reduction (CONRED) detailed that in addition to the 28 fatalities of the rain, 13 people were also […]

Among them are U.S.-backed right-wing activists, including members of the evangelical group ‘The Mountain Gate Ministry.’ On Monday, the Supreme Court of Justice stripped 135 individuals of their Nicaraguan nationality after they were released from prison and expelled to Guatemala on September 5. RELATED: Nicaragua Greets Belizeans on the Anniversary of St. George’s Caye Battle […]

The agency said it was important to resume the use of masks in people with respiratory symptoms or chronic illnesses, as well as covering the mouth and nose with the inside of the arm or with a handkerchief when coughing.

The deaths were due to landslides, floods, overflowing rivers and other incidents

Guatemala is also accelerating the process of improving more than four thousand of the 35,922 schools in the system, due to the state of neglect in which it found them.

On Wednesday, Guatemalan civil protection authorities counted 92 active fires, almost half of them in the north of the country, specifically in the department of Petén.