Guatemala

United States and Guatemalan authorities have announced the arrest of six people charged with human smuggling linked to a semi-trailer truck crash in Mexico in 2021 that killed more than 50 migrants.

A man who spent years on the run from the FBI amid an international manhunt on charges he embezzled $10 million from a New Hampshire investment firm has pleaded guilty, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Bernardo Arévalo was sworn in as Guatemala’s president on Monday minutes after midnight despite months of efforts to derail his inauguration, including foot-dragging and rising tensions right up until the transfer of power.

Outsider Bernardo Arévalo appeared to be the “virtual winner” of Sunday’s election to be Guatemala’s next president.

Guatemalans have begun voting to elect a new president, hoping that the country’s next leader will provide relief from rising prices and get a handle on crime and corruption.

Officials say an unaccompanied 15-year-old migrant girl from Guatemala died from an underlying disease while in federal custody.