Guatemala’s elite, which has tried since 1996 to engage ... or people accused by neighbours anonymously in poor areas of Guatemala City. The result of all these diverse criminal phenomena ...

But the elite sector still refused to accept the results, as fear mounts they’ll continue to interfere in the election, leading up to the runoff. Protests erupted in Guatemala City earlier this ...

GUATEMALA CITY, March 2 (Reuters) - Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom swore in a new unit of elite anti-drug police on Monday, just days after suspected members of a Mexican drug cartel threatened ...

He has spent much of the five-month period before his inauguration fighting off a judicial offensive from prosecutors aligned with Guatemala's ruling class and accused of corruption. "The slow ...

Guatemala has experienced an “unprecedented institutional deterioration” and a “disaster of corruption and impunity” due to that “corrupt criminal political elite” that clings to its privileges, said ...

Mr Arévalo, the son of Guatemala’s first democratically elected president, is an outsider candidate who ran on an anti-corruption platform. But since then the country’s elite has done its ...

As an elite stronghold in one of Latin America’s most unequal nations, it is also divisive. The City of Cayalá, in the background, is a gleaming, planned city on the outskirts of Guatemala’s ...

Guatemala City (AFP) – Bernardo Arevalo swept from obscurity to become president of Guatemala, his anti-corruption crusade winning the hearts of voters while sowing panic among a corrupt elite ...