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Guatemalan authorities have arrested two high-ranking police officials leading the country's war on drugs on charges of corruption and drug trafficking, Guatemalan Attorney General Amilcar Velasquez announced Tuesday. Police Chief Baltazar Gonzalez...

Guatemalan authorities have issued an arrest warrant for former president Alfonso Portillo , after the US government requested his extradition on Sunday to face charges of money laundering . Portillo, who was president...

Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo was extradited Tuesday from Mexico to Guatemala, where he is accused of authorizing transfers of $15.8 million from the budget of the Guatemalan Ministry of Defense during his presidency from...

UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Philip Alston Tuesday urged Guatemalan lawmakers not to override a presidential veto of a bill that would restore the country's death penalty in...

Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom vetoed a bill Friday that would have restored the country's death penalty . Decree 06-2008 would also have given Colom, sworn into office just last month...

The Guatemalan Congress voted to restore the death penalty Tuesday, passing a bill that ends a six-year moratorium on executions imposed by the Constitutional Court in 2002. Under the new law,...

Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez has signed an order allowing Guatemala to extradite former Guatemalan president Alfonso Portillo so that he can face charges of embezzlement for alleged misuse...