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By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read VADO HONDO, Guatemala, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Guatemalan security forces used sticks to beat back a migrant caravan early on Sunday after thousands of people set off from Honduras for the United States this week, just as President-elect Joe Biden prepares to enter the White House. Between 7,000 and 8,000 migrants have entered Guatemala since Friday, according to Guatemala’s immigration authority, fleeing poverty and violence in a region hammered by the coronavirus pand...

(Adds comments from Honduran migrant, details, context) By Luis Echeverria VADO HONDO, Guatemala, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Guatemalan security forces on Sun...

(Corrects to 8,000 migrants in headline from 8,0000) By Sofia Menchu and Gustavo Palencia GUATEMALA CITY, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Thousands of Hondurans, i...

Hundreds of Central Americans camped overnight outside the bus terminal in the city of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, anxiously awaiting the departure early Friday morning of a migrant caravan hoping to reach the United States.

(Updates with caravan's progress) By Gustavo Palencia and Sofia Menchu TEGUCIGALPA, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Around 2,000 Hondurans set off from San Pedro S...

The Guatemalan military has detained hundreds of migrants at its border as thousands of Hondurans, including many families with young children, continued to walk north on Friday as part of a caravan hoping to reach the United States.

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,...

Guatemala suffered damages worth just over 6 billion quetzales ($770 million) because of the ravages of Hurricanes Eta and Iota in November last year, the government said on Wednesday.

Guatemala declared emergency powers on Thursday as the first groups of migrants headed toward its border ahead of a larger caravan scheduled to depart Honduras on Friday morning bound for the United States.

3 Min Read TAPACHULA, Mexico (Reuters) - Guatemalan and Honduran soldiers will be deployed to prevent new U.S.-bound migrant caravans from advancing, military officials said, amid growing desperation among those seeking to cross and signs that some groups will depart later this month. Two devastating hurricanes late last year along with severe economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic have pushed millions of people in the already-poor region closer to hunger, leading to a steady rise in U....