Former attorney general and Semilla party presidential hopeful Thelma Aldana will not be on the ballot in Guatemala's June 16 elections, the country's top court has ruled.

Zury Rios cannot run for president due to a constitutional ban on relatives of leaders who came to power by force, the Constitutional Court ruled.

Country's electoral tribunal bars former Attorney General Thelma Aldana as legal battles continue.

Central American and Mexican activists are questioning their governments' focus on security to address migration following meetings this week with US Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen.

At annual International Women's Day march in Guatemala, families remember those who've suffered from state violence.

Opposition grows to legislative initiatives in Guatemala and El Salvador that would set war criminals free.

The Xinka say Pan American Silver, a mining company based in Canada, isn't compliant with a Constitutional Court ruling.

The bill would allow former army officers who committed abuses during the 36-year war to go free.

Indigenous survivors of crimes against humanity committed during Guatemala's 36-year civil war took action against a bill advancing in Congress that would set war criminals free.

Death of Jakelin Caal in US custody highlights how land conflicts and displacement fuel flight from indigenous villages

Guatemalans gathered Thursday to commemorate the anniversary of the 1980 Spanish Embassy massacre, and to protest a bill under discussion in Congress that would set war criminals free and prevent future prosecution.

The head of an international anti-corruption body has offered to step down if the Guatemalan government allows the beleaguered commission it shut down last week to continue its work.

Thousands of people in took part in rallies, marches and roadblocks throughout Guatemala to protest the government's ongoing attacks on an international anti-corruption commission and recent efforts to remove judges from the country's highest court.

Guatemalans are taking to the streets to protest the government's assault on CICIG and the rule of law, in the latest chapter of an ongoing constitutional crisis.

Indigenous leaders and human rights activists in Guatemala worry an ongoing political crisis over the fate of an international anti-corruption commission is sowing the seeds for increased and more generalized repression, and that it could place activists and community leaders around the country further at risk.

The US donated military jeeps to Guatemalan task forces to combat drug trafficking in border regions, but they have been used elsewhere and for other purposes, such as intimidating an anti-corruption commission, in violation of donation agreements with the US Department of Defense.

Edgar Rodolfo Xon Ajanel called his mother just before he was set to cross the border from Mexico into the United States more than 10 years ago. "He said he was minutes away from crossing," Sofia Sebastiana Xon, one of Edgar's younger sisters, told Al Jazeera. "That was his last call."

A Honduran man was killed late on Sunday as the crackdown on migrants and refugees walking from Central America to the United States intensified.

Thousands of migrants and refugees headed to the US find temporary shelter and help as they pass through Guatemala.

Human rights groups warn that government responses to Central American migrants and refugees fleeing to the US may violate international law.