Guatemala

“The order has been given to detain all those who entered illegally, and return them to the border of their country.”

The senior Guatemalan human rights prosecutor, Judge Jimmy Bremer, has indicted another senior military officer for genocide and crimes against humanity during the country’s civil war.  Luis Enrique Mendoza Garcia, who was a senior operations officer under the former regime of General Efrain Rios Montt, will go on trial in March for his role in […]

Mexico—A migrant caravan comprised of more than seven thousand Central Americans is headed toward the U.S.-Mexico border. Like a cascading snowball, the caravan has increased in size and visibility with every mile northward. It all began when around 150 Honduran migrants grouped to have better security for their trek north. As they hitched rides, their […]

A state of emergency may soon be declared by the Guatemalan government in two municipalities bordering Mexico due to the proliferation of drug trafficking groups in the region.  Troops from the Guatemalan military have been dispatched to stabilize the area and stem the flow of heroin into their country. The Ixchiguan and Tajumulco municipalities of […]

Forty-one individuals linked to transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) responsible for smuggling hundreds of individuals through South and Central America into the United States

The shooting death of a 13-year-old Guatemalan boy has provoked the largest border mobilization for the country in decades. On April 20, Belizean troops killed Julio Alvarado Ruano and wounded his father and brother, which Belizean authorities said occurred after the troops came under fire. Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales called the shootings a “cowardly and […]

Very cool.  We had a couple dudes in my Company graduate from Colombian Lancero school.  They said that you had to be in a patrol base by 5pm during Jungle Phase because it gets so dark under triple canopy.  I also heard all kinds of horror stories that really made me want to go and […]