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Virgen de la Asunción Safe Home is a state-run children's home located in San Jose Pinula, about 25 kilometres (16 mi) away from the capital Guatemala City. The institution was built in 2010 and accommodates abandoned or orphaned children, as well as children with disabilities, drug addictions, or who are pregnant. [ 1 ]
The family had difficulty paying for the younger children's schooling. [1] According to Marie-Claire, "she saw migrating to the United States as her only hope." [ 5 ] An aunt living in Atlanta offered to loan her the $11,000 she needed to get to the US.
Siekavizza's disappearance, and possible murder, have moved Guatemalans to demand justice against a growing epidemic of femicide happening in their country. Siekavizza's family has organized marches throughout Guatemala City (Obelisco, Avenida Las Américas, carretera an El Salvador and Vista Hermosa) to support victims of domestic violence. [7]
Few Guatemalan children have arrived in the U.S. through a program aimed to reunite them with parents in the U.S., a report by Refugees International found.
Nery Caal, 29, and his daughter Jakelin were in a group of more than 160 migrants who handed themselves in to U.S. border agents in New Mexico on Dec. 6. Jakelin developed a high fever while in ...
Guatemalan police on Wednesday arrested seven Guatemalans accused of having smuggled 53 migrants from Mexico and Central America who died of asphyxiation in 2022 in Texas after being abandoned in ...
The Guatemalan Civil War began in 1960 between the government and leftist actors, and it resulted in over 200,000 deaths. [6] Sources cite the history of conflict in Guatemala as rendering communities accustomed to violence today, and the extension of incompetent or corrupt state institutions facilitates the impunity associated with such violence. [7]
STORY: Hand-made out of paper with striking designs, the gigantic kites took months to complete.“Our grandparents told us that the tradition of the giant kites of Santiago is the day which we ...