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Guatemala evacuates communities after Fuego volcano erupts, in photos

SAN JUAN ALOTENANGO, Guatemala (AP) — Hundreds of people were evacuated after Guatemala’s Fuego volcano erupted, sending ash, gas and lava down its slopes.

 

Photos from Guatemala a day after dozens of earthquakes shook the country

SANTA MARIA de JESUS, Guatemala (AP) — Dozens of earthquakes struck Guatemala in a short span, causing landslides, leaving walls crumbled and roads blocked by landslides.

 

For this AP photographer, joy was all in the hands for a group of released political prisoners

Moisés Castillo joined the AP in 1994 at the age of 19, covering Central America and Mexico while based in Guatemala City.

 

Fleeing Nicaraguans strain Costa Rica’s asylum system

Since the summer of 2021, when Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega locked up dozens of political opponents ahead of November’s presidential elections, Nicaraguans have been seeking asylum in Costa Rica at the highest levels since Nicaragua’s political crisis exploded in April 2018.

 

AP PHOTOS: Lobster divers risk injury, death in Honduras

AP PHOTOS: Thousands of men across the Mosquitia region of Honduras and Nicaragua depend on lobster diving to eke out a living.

 

Fireworks explosion kills 24, injures 49 near Mexico City

Mexican authorities say 24 people have been killed and 49 injured in a series of explosions that ripped through fireworks workshops in a city just north of the capital.

 

Bodies emerge from Guatemala’s war-era ‘model villages’

It wasn’t only bullets and violence that killed thousands of indigenous people during Guatemala’s 1960-1996 civil war.

 

Nabbed at a Pizza Hut, fugitive lawyer returns to justice

A lawyer who spent six months on the run after pleading guilty in a $500 million Social Security fraud scheme was being flown back to Kentucky on Tuesday after his capture in Honduras.

 

Where buildings fell to quake, memorials rise in Mexico City

Flower and toys, impassioned messages and even hard hats of rescue workers have become impromptu memorials across Mexico City.

 

Drought heightens seasonal food scarcity in Guatemala

A prolonged drought has worsened the hunger problem that many of Guatemala’s heavily Indian population have long suffered.

 

Coffee rust reaches new heights in Central America

FRAIJANES, Guatemala (AP) — For years, Hernan Argueta’s small plot of coffee plants seemed immune to the fungus spreading elsewhere in Central America.

 

Guatemala hunts for killers of 27 on ranch

SAN BENITO, Guatemala (AP) — President Alvaro Colom oversaw hundreds of Guatemalan soldiers and police in a house-by-house search Tuesday for the killers of 27 cattle ranch workers, while schools and businesses shut down in the terrified jungle town.