Central American emergency services were on alert Saturday as Tropical Storm Harvey, which is forecast to turn into a full-fledged hurricane, crossed the Caribbean.
A court in Guatemala sentenced four former military officers to 6,060 years in prison each on Tuesday for killing more than 200 civilians in 1982 during the 36-year civil war.
Guatemalan and US agents have captured Guatemala's top drug trafficker in a joint effort to prevent the Latin American country from being absorbed into Mexico's drug wars.
The United States apologised on Friday for funding a study in which hundreds of Guatemalans were deliberately infected with syphilis and gonorrhoea in the 1940s.
Mexico's heaviest-ever rainfall has killed at least seven people and affected over 900,000 more, according to local authorities in the south and east of the country.
Guatemala has declared a state of national emergency after weeks of heavy rain caused two landslides on Friday which authorities say have killed at least 38 people and left nearly two dozen others ...
The Gulf of Mexico is set to be hit by the first major storm of the Atlantic season on Monday, raising fears that the clean-up of crude oil spilling out of a damaged BP well in the area could be affected.
