Guatemalan police on Sunday transferred more than 200 gang members from a prison where they operated a call center for criminal purposes, raised chickens and looked out on a crocodile-filled lake.

He was 18 then—a budding artist, but also a member of the 18th Street Gang, a violent, illicit Los Angeles-based group that has gained ground in Guatemala and El Salvador. “At the time ...

Mining is at the center of a campaign of repression and violence targeting environmentalists and human rights defenders in Guatemala. The government is violently quashing opposition, and foreign ...

Guatemala sends 150 soldiers to Haiti's capital to help a UN-backed force tackle powerful armed gangs. Authorities in Guatemala resist efforts by a Jewish sect to recapture 160 children rescued ...