Stitch by stitch, artisans have worked for months on the elaborate garments that will debut this week in Holy Week processions across Guatemala and beyond.

Guatemala’s Volcano of Fire is erupting, and authorities have evacuated nearly 300 families while warning that another 30,000 people in the area could be at risk.

Hundreds of Guatemalan faithful found the sounds and colors of their tropical homeland during the biggest-yet celebration of the Black Christ of Esquipulas in the heartland farming town of Worthington, Minnesota.

Tropical Storm Sara is drenching Honduras’ northern coast, swelling rivers as it stalls over the Central American nation.

Belize issued tropical storm warnings for coastal areas on Friday as Tropical Storm Sara moved through the Caribbean, dousing Honduras’ northern coast with heavy rain.

IndyCar driver Pato O'Ward dazzled in Mexico City during the Formula 1 weekend and proved he's a big enough star to carry IndyCar into his native country for its own race.

Bernardo Arévalo’s experience in peacebuilding and diplomacy eminently qualify him to lead Guatemala as the conflict-riven country’s next president, those who know him say.

A court in Guatemala has convicted former President Otto Pérez Molina and his vice president, Roxana Baldetti, on fraud and conspiracy counts.

Top prospect Makur Maker was limited to 23 points in 48 minutes over just two games during his freshman season. ___The NFL reports it had no positive tests for players and one positive among other personnel during Super Bowl week. It’s the 34th game postponed so far this season, which is roughly a quarter of the way through. ___Ryder Cup captain Padraig Harrington has tested positive for the coronavirus and has withdrawn from the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Three staff members and one management official have also tested positive at the club.

Riot police form a cordon as flames shoot out from the Congress building after protesters set a part of the building on fire, in Guatemala City, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Oliver De Ros)GUATEMALA CITY – Hundreds of protesters broke into Guatemala's Congress and burned part of the building Saturday amid growing demonstrations against President Alejandro Giammattei and the legislature for approving a controversial budget that cut educational and health spending. About 1,000 protesters were demonstrating outside the Congress building. Discontent had been building over the 2021 budget on social media and clashes erupted during demonstrations on Friday. Both the former president and Baldetti are in jail awaiting trials in various corruption cases.

(AP Photo/Moises Castillo)GUATEMALA CITY The United States resumed deportation flights to Guatemala Tuesday, nearly a month after the Central American country refused to accept them. The flights scheduled for Tuesday and Thursday this week will carry fewer deportees, about 50, said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Patricia Letona. The presidential commission in charge of the governments response to the health crisis made the decision to resume the flights, Letona said. Guatemala suspended the flights after nearly all of the 65 passengers aboard a May 13 flight tested positive. Since the epidemic began in Guatemala in mid-March, the country has received 2,160 deportees from the U.S., including adults and children.