Alejandro Giammattei
Vice President Kamala Harris and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gesture as they arrive for a bilateral meeting Tuesday, June 8, 2021, at the National Palace in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Blunt message, search for answers mark VP's 1st foreign trip

By Alexandra Jaffe Jun. 09, 2021 12:12 AM EDT

Vice President Kamala Harris poses for a photo with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Tuesday, June 8, 2021, at the National Palace in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Harris tells Latin Americans the US can offer them hope

By Alexandra Jaffe Jun. 08, 2021 01:15 AM EDT

Demonstrators protest in front of the National Palace in Guatemala after a meeting between Vice President Kamala Harris and Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei, in Guatemala City, Monday, June 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)
'Do not come': Harris seeks 'hope at home' for Guatemalans

By Alexandra Jaffe Jun. 07, 2021 12:35 AM EDT

Members of the cadets honor guard stand close to Air Force Two after the arrival of Vice President Kamala Harris to Guatemala City, Sunday, June 6, 2021, at Guatemala's Air Force Central Command. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Harris targets corruption, immigration on Latin America trip

By Alexandra Jaffe And Christopher Sherman Jun. 06, 2021 08:00 AM EDT

Vice President Kamala Harris listens as President Joe Biden speaks about the COVID-19 vaccination program, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Wednesday, June 2, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
US to swiftly boost global vaccine sharing, Biden announces

By Zeke Miller Jun. 03, 2021 11:15 AM EDT

FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2021 file photo, a Honduran migrant child is helped off an army truck after being returned to El Florido, Guatemala, one of the border points between Guatemala and Honduras. The reasons Hondurans continue to flee their country have been well documented: pervasive violence, deep-seated corruption, lack of jobs and widespread destruction from two major hurricanes that struck the region last November. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros, File)
US to help Guatemala train its border protection force

By Sonia Pérez D. And Gisela Salomon Apr. 26, 2021 09:39 PM EDT

Vice President Kamala Harris meets virtually with Guatemala's President Alejandro Giammattei, seen on screen at left, Monday, April 26, 2021, from her ceremonial office at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Harris meets virtually with Guatemalan president

By Alexandra Jaffe Apr. 26, 2021 05:15 PM EDT

Armed Guatemalan soldiers guard the integrated border crossing point of Corinto on the border with Honduras as groups of Honduran migrants are expected to arrive, in Guatemala, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. Hundreds of Honduran migrants started to move towards the Guatemalan border with the hope of making it to the U.S., even as local authorities worked to prevent them from doing so. (AP Photo/Delmer Martinez)
Hundreds of migrants set out from Honduras, dreaming of US

By Delmer Martínez And Claudio Escalon Mar. 30, 2021 07:35 PM EDT

Migrants disembark on the Mexican side of the border after crossing the Usumacinta River from Guatemala, in Frontera Corozal, Chiapas state, Mexico, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Guatemala declares emergency measures as new caravan rumored

Mar. 29, 2021 04:13 PM EDT

FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2020 file photo, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador points to a graph showing the percentages of hospital beds available, state by state, during his daily news conference at the presidential palace, Palacio Nacional, in Mexico City. López Obrador was working from isolation on Monday, Jan. 25, 2021, a day after announcing that he had tested positive for COVID-19, his interior secretary said. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)
Mexican president works from isolation after virus test

By Christopher Sherman Jan. 25, 2021 12:02 AM EST

FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2020 file photo, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his daily, morning news conference at the presidential palace, Palacio Nacional, in Mexico City. Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is under medical treatment, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)
Mexico's president says he's tested positive for COVID-19

By Christopher Sherman Jan. 24, 2021 07:53 PM EST

Guatemalan soldiers stands guard at a police checkpoint on the Motagua River to stop the advance of Honduran migrants in Zacapa, Guatemala, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021. A once large caravan of Honduran migrants that pushed its way into Guatemala last week had dissipated by Tuesday in the face of Guatemalan security forces. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)
Large migrant caravan dissolves in Guatemala

By Oliver De Ros And Santiago Billy Jan. 19, 2021 01:44 PM EST

Injured women, part of a Honduran migrant caravan in their bid to reach the U.S. border, weep as they sit on the side of a highway after clashing with Guatemalan police and soldiers in Vado Hondo, Guatemala, Guatemala, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Sandra Sebastian)
Guatemala forces stall migrant caravan with tear gas, batons

By Sandra Sebastian Jan. 17, 2021 12:12 PM EST

Guatemalan soldiers block the road where Honduran migrants, hoping to reach the U.S. border, rest on the side of a highway in Vado Hondo, Guatemala, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021. Guatemalan authorities estimated that as many as 9,000 Honduran migrants crossed into Guatemala as part of an effort to form a new caravan to reach the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Sandra Sebastian)
Guatemala tries blocking caravan of 9,000 Honduran migrants

By Sonny Figueroa And Claudio Escalon Jan. 16, 2021 07:10 PM EST

Honduran migrants trying to reach the U.S. border as a group board a public bus on the highway to Santa Barbara, early Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. The migrants left with little certainty about how far they will make it as regional governments appeared more united than ever in stopping their progress. (AP Photo/Delmer Martinez)
Migrant caravan on the move in Honduras in uncertain times

By Delmer Martínez And Claudio Escalon Jan. 15, 2021 08:35 AM EST

Migrants trying to reach the U.S. border board a public transport bus on the highway to Choloma, Honduras, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. About 200 Honduran migrants resumed walking toward the border with Guatemala early Thursday, a day before a migrant caravan was scheduled to depart San Pedro Sula.(AP Photo/Delmer Martinez)
Honduran migrants trek north toward Guatemalan border

By María Verza Jan. 13, 2021 11:45 PM EST

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2020, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak from the Blue Room Balcony of the White House to a crowd of supporters, in Washington. Trump announced in October that he and his wife, first lady Melania Trump, tested positive for the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Macron is the latest world leader to catch COVID-19

Dec. 17, 2020 06:18 AM EST

Guatemala COVID-19 chief headed back to Colorado medical job

Dec. 08, 2020 01:06 PM EST
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The man leading Guatemala's effort against the new coronavirus said Tuesday he is leaving that post in order to return to his job at the...

People walk past an area of the Congress building damaged during protests in Guatemala City, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. Protesters broke into the building and set it partially on fire amid growing demonstrations against President Alejandro Giammattei and the legislature for approving a controversial budget that cut educational and health spending. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Guatemala condemns fire at Congress; 12 injured in protests

By Sonia Pérez D. Nov. 22, 2020 02:39 PM EST

A couch and art work destroyed by fire are seen inside the Congress building after protesters set a part of the building on fire, in Guatemala City, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020. Hundreds of protesters were protesting in various parts of the country Saturday against Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei and members of Congress for the approval of the 2021 budget that reduced funds for education, health and the fight for human rights. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Protesters torch Guatemala's Congress building amid unrest

By Sonia Pérez D. Nov. 21, 2020 05:03 PM EST