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By Reuters Staff 1 Min Read GUATEMALA CITY, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei said on Saturday his country expects to receive its initial COVID-19 vaccines from mid-February onward via the Covax mechanism backed by the World Health Organization (WHO). (Reporting by Sofia Menchu; Editing by Daniel Wallis)

MEXICO-VIOLENCE/GUATEMALA (PIX):Guatemalan Maya families fear relatives among Mexican massacre victims

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.metro.us/guatemalan-maya-families-fear/"></div>GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Guatemalan Maya families said on Monday they feared relatives were among bodies found over the weekend in a remote part of northern Mexico along a route popular with migrant smugglers heading towards the U.S. border. After receiving a tip off in the border state of Tamaulipas in northern Mexico, Mexican authorities […...

5 Min Read LA PALMILLA, Guatemala (Reuters) - Two-year-old Yesmin Anayeli Perez died this week of illnesses linked to malnutrition, the third small child to die from similar causes in an impoverished mountain village in eastern Guatemala within weeks, residents and health officials said. Marvin Roque carries the coffin of his late niece Yesmin Anayeli, a two-year-old girl who died of pneumonia related to severe malnutrition, towards a hilltop for her burial in La Palmilla, Guatemala January 12,...

5 Min Read GUATEMALA CITY/TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The death toll from torrential downpours unleashed by storm Eta leapt on Friday as Guatemalan soldiers reached a mountain village where around 100 people were killed by a landslide, adding to dozens of other dead in Central America and Mexico. Many of those who lost their lives in the village of Queja in the central Guatemalan region of Alta Verapaz were buried in their homes after mudslides swallowed around 150 houses, army spokesman Ruben Tell...

Guatemala's president on Monday cautioned that Central America would need help from rich countries to stave off more migration, with powerful Hurricane Iota hours from wreaking destruction in the poor region still reeling from recent storms.

Guatemala on Wednesday requested that the United States allow Guatemalans in the country to remain on humanitarian grounds following the devastation caused by storm Eta last week.

By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read FILE PHOTO: Guatemalas President Alejandro Giammattei looks on during a news conference with Michael Kozak (not pictured), acting assistant secretary for U.S. State Departments Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, in Guatemala City, Guatemala February 7, 2020. REUTERS/Luis Echeverria GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala began reopening its economy on Monday, easing restrictions imposed four months ago to curb the coronavirus, although cases are still on the rise in ...

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.metro.us/guatemalan-military-clears-u-s-bound/"></div>VADO HONDO, Guatemala (Reuters) – Guatemalan security forces on Monday cleared a road of hundreds of people in a mostly Honduran migrant caravan that had camped out overnight when authorities barred it from advancing toward the United States. The Guatemalan government said the road in the eastern part of the country reopened to traffic after [&...

Guatemala on Tuesday pressed on with transporting migrants back to the border with Honduras, further thinning out a U.S.-bound caravan that was halted by security forces at the weekend.