Guatemala

The administration’s push to weaken oversight of gun exports could worsen the Central American refugee crisis.

U.S. Republicans are weakening a U.N. anti-corruption investigation into President Jimmy Morales. What are they getting in exchange?

The continuing crackdown on a corruption investigatory body could allow impunity to flourish ahead of this year’s elections.

Violence isn’t the only reason migrants are fleeing Central America. A four-year drought has destroyed harvests and lives—and has pushed the hungry northward.

The United States must foster free trade and economic growth in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, or the vicious cycle of violence will persist.

Indigenous rights activists are increasingly being murdered with impunity.

As the drug trade takes over Central America, drug barons have found an increasingly reliable option for laundering their cash: cows.

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How one man tried to tackle deep-rooted corruption in Guatemala — and barely made it out alive.

Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales has a laugh at the expense of Donald Trump.

Guatamala's left says the country's ongoing war crimes trials are an overdue reckoning. The country's military says they're a "legal lynching."

As Guatemala wrestles with the ghosts of its civil war past, its new president may already be a lame duck.

Kiev is losing the fight against corruption. It's time for a radical cure.

In 2014, Lev Tahor arrived in Guatemala, the latest stop in a 20-year international journey. The ultra-conservative jewish sect cries that it is escaping religious persecution. But to those left behind—in Israel, New York, and Canada—the group is a dangerous cult ducking accusations of brainwashing, abuse, and child marriage

And more dangerous than ever.

A number of corruption scandals exploded in 2015. FP looks back at some of the most egregious.

Last year the United States took an important step toward helping the region clean up its bad actors. Now it needs to follow through.

A new report from the U.N.’s refugee agency sheds light on Central America’s worsening gang violence and the refugee crisis it has created.

Restive Hondurans fear a historic opportunity for groundbreaking political change is about to pass them by.

Guatemala's president has been sent to jail amid allegations of massive corruption, flinging the country into uncharted territory as it prepares for Sunday's elections.