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At least one person died and four were injured during protests in Guatemala, an aid worker said Monday, marking the first death in more than two weeks of continuous demonstrations demanding an orderly transition for President-elect Bernardo Arevalo. The reform-minded Arevalo won a landslide victory in August, but since then the country's independent attorney general has intensified investigations into the election and the president-elect's Seed Movement party, which could stymie the transition. On Monday, some 50 people carrying firearms, wooden planks and stones, tried to dissolve...

Guatemala's President Alejandro Giammattei on Friday called for roadblocks to be lifted and said he cannot remove the country's attorney general, something demanded by protesters who accuse authorities of blocking the government transition. Attorney General Maria Consuelo Porras, whose office has said she will not step down, has been investigating the party of president-elect Bernardo Arevalo in what he and the Organization of American States have branded an attack on democracy.

By Cassandra Garrison EL AGUACATE, Guatemala (Reuters) - A few tortillas and a half bowl of reheated beans were all Maria Concepcion Rodriguez had to feed

A few tortillas and a half bowl of reheated beans were all Maria Concepcion Rodriguez had to feed her six children in the isolated village of El Aguacate, one day in August....

A Guatemalan court has struck down a six-year sentence for money laundering against journalist Jose Zamora and ordered a new trial be prepared, Zamora's son told Reuters on Friday. Zamora is a well-known journalist whose work has criticized successive governments, and the case sparked outcry from rights groups who branded the case an attack on free speech.