The worsening gang warfare in Guatemala has piled pressure on President Bernardo Arevalo to crack down on crime and root out corrupt officials accused of links to organized crime.

The Central American country is under a state of emergency after a massacre of police officers that calls into question the ...

Guatemalan police and soldiers are using new powers under a state of emergency to target the Barrio 18 gang in a high-crime ...

The killings occurred a day after gang member inmates took 46 people hostage in three prisons across the country, officials said.

The death toll from co-ordinated gang attacks in Guatemala has risen to nine police officers, an official confirmed on Monday, after a weekend of violence that began with prison riots.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Guatemala's minister of the interior, Marco Antonio Villeda presents a flag to the family member of a slain police officer at the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At least 12 bodies were found in three days in a wooded area on the outskirts of Guatemala City, authorities said Sunday, linking ...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala President Bernardo Arévalo declared a 30-day state of siege Sunday after suspected gang members in Guatemala’s capital killed seven police officers in apparent ...

ESCUINTLA, Guatemala (AP) — Suspected gang members in Guatemala’s capital Sunday killed seven police officers, authorities said, shortly after officials in the country’s southwest retook control of ...

Guatemala Prison Riot Security forces enter the Renovation maximum-security prison to free guards taken hostage and retake control of the facility, which houses gang leaders, in Escuintla, Guatemala, ...