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Guatemala has the fourth-highest number of Mexicans living outside of Mexico. The Mexican community has been primarily established in Guatemala City, Huehuetenango, Antigua Guatemala and Guatemalan border towns. Mexicans are the fourth-largest foreign community in the country, after the Germans, Koreans and Salvadorans.
Jacobo Árbenz, 25th President of Guatemala, was exiled following the CIA-backed 1954 coup d'état and died in Mexico City in 1971.. There has been a Guatemalan presence in Mexico since at least 1895, when the National Census counted 14,004 individuals, [3] however this dropped to 5,820 in 1900. [3]
Guatemala and Mexico are neighboring nations who established diplomatic relations in 1848. [1] In January 1959 both nations broke diplomatic relations as a result of the Mexico–Guatemala conflict, however, diplomatic relations were re-established 8 months later in September of that same year.
On the Mexican side, Chiapas’ state security agency said it had received no reports from the area. Mexico’s foreign affairs ministry and National Guard did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the Mexicans who sought refuge in Guatemala. Cartels from the northern states of Sinaloa and Jalisco battle for territory across ...
In September of last year, Mexico’s president conceded the cartels had cut off electrical power in some Chiapas towns near the border with Guatemala, and forbidden government workers from coming in to the largely rural area to fix power lines. On Thursday, the Mexican government's silence continued. __
GUATEMALA CITY/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - More than 500 people in southern Mexico have fled to neighboring Guatemala this week amid armed clashes between criminal groups fighting over drug ...
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador thanked Guatemala on Friday for helping the nearly 600 Mexicans who have crossed into Guatemala to escape drug cartel violence, but also minimized ...
In 2014, Mexico's border with Guatemala and Belize had 11 formal crossings (10 with Guatemala and 1 with Belize) and more than 370 informal crossings. [8] As part of an effort known as Plan Frontera Sur (Southern Border Plan), which is intended to limit illegal Central American entry into the country, Mexico will increase the number of formal ...