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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

Coffee pickers gather outside the home of Alvina Jeronimo Perez and her husband Anibal Garcia to buy fried chicken and french fries from the couple in Tizamarte, Guatemala, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. Residents eke out a living with subsistence agriculture to feed their families and harvesting coffee for their cash needs from school fees to medicine. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Guatemalan lives upturned by failed immigration bids

By Sonia Pérez D. Jun. 03, 2021 12:02 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

FILE - In this April 20, 2021, file photo, notices informing about the shortage of COVID-19 vaccine is displayed on the gate of a vaccination centre in Mumbai, India. India is battling the world’s fastest pace of spreading infections. Its government has blocked vaccine exports for several months to better meet needs at home, exacerbating the difficulty of poor countries to access vaccine. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)
From scarcity to abundance: US faces calls to share vaccines

By Marlon González And Zeke Miller Apr. 24, 2021 08:19 AM 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

Guatemalans outraged by fake COVID-19 tests

Feb. 22, 2021 05:44 PM EST
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Lawmakers and rights official in Guatemala called Monday for an investigation into 30,000 fake COVID-19 tests that were bought by public...

Floria Sarai Calix pushes her belongings in hopes of finding a safer area to camp out with her son after losing their home in the Chamelecon neighborhood to hurricanes Eta and Iota, on the outskirts of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. The devastation wrought by November's hurricanes and the economic damage of the COVID-19 pandemic has added to the forces that drive Hondurans to migrate. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Migrants on the move again in Mexico and Central America

By Isabel Mateos And María Verza Feb. 18, 2021 12:01 AM 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

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...

FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2020 file photo, volunteer firefighters rush to a waiting helicopter to load emergency aid to be transported to a nearby zone where residents are believed buried by a massive, rain-fueled landslide, during search and rescue efforts, in San Cristobal Verapaz, in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Eta. The search was eventually called off after recovering a few bodies and declaring about 100 people missing. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)
Punishing hurricanes to spur more Central American migration

By Claudio Escalon And María Verza Nov. 24, 2020 02:36 PM EST

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

A toddler is carried over a flooded street in the aftermath of Hurricane Eta in Jerusalen, Honduras, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020. The storm that hit Nicaragua as a Category 4 hurricane on Tuesday had become more of a vast tropical rainstorm, but it was advancing so slowly and dumping so much rain that much of Central America remained on high alert. (AP Photo/Delmer Martinez)
Guatemala president says 37 dead in landslides caused by Eta

By Marlon González Nov. 05, 2020 12:01 AM EST

Honduras migrants stand in an army truck before returning home, in Morales, Guatemala, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020. Early Saturday, hundreds of migrants who had entered Guatemala this week without registering were being bused back to their country's border by authorities after running into a large roadblock. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Dissolved migrant caravan sign of tougher Guatemala stance

By Sonia Pérez D. Oct. 05, 2020 05:39 PM EDT

Migrants walk with a Honduran flag, along a highway in hopes of reaching the distant United States, as they depart San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. Hundreds of migrants have begun walking from this northern Honduras city toward the Guatemala border testing a well-trod migration route now in times of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Delmer Martinez)
Hundreds of Honduran migrants set out for US amid pandemic

By Claudio Escalon And Sonia Pérez D. Oct. 01, 2020 11:38 AM EDT

A model from the Guatemalan Tourism Institute poses for photographers wearing an indigenous ceremonial costume during the reopening of La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City, Friday, Sept. 18, 2020. Guatemala reopened its borders Friday, and is allowing commercial flights from La Aurora that had been restricted to humanitarian and cargo flights since closing its borders in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Guatemala opens long-closed national parks, bars, gyms

Sep. 29, 2020 02:33 PM EDT

Jill Arwood, right, with Lem's Korner in Blount County, thanks Connie Clemmer who, after receiving her cookies for free because of the a pay-it-forward trend started by one man Saturday, donated her own money to be used for the next patron's bill. (Tom Sherlin/The Daily Times via AP)
The Latest: Connecticut getting 1 million rapid virus tests

By The Associated Press Sep. 29, 2020 01:39 AM EDT