Its indigenous population, the Maya, make up about half of the population. Mayan languages are spoken alongside Spanish, the official tongue. Many Guatemalans are of mixed Amerindian-Hispanic origin.

A 5.7-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks near Guatemala City led to landslides that were reported to have killed at ...

Guatemala is characterized by low contraceptive use rates and one of the highest fertility rates in the Western Hemisphere. These rates are particularly extreme for the poorest segment of the ...

Widespread lack of access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation services puts the health and other rights of ...

The policy returns a vulnerable population “to countries in which their lives and freedom are directly threatened,” a union of asylum and refugee officers said in a brief.

GUATEMALA CITY — Alvaro Colom awoke Monday to the realization an entire country of poor and desperate people was depending on him. Having won Guatemala’s presidential election Sunday night ...

Rebeca Vicente had planned a road trip to Houston to renew her passport at the Guatemalan consulate. But when she heard that her homeland had just opened a new consulate in Oklahoma City, Vicente ...

Social inequality is a major feature of Guatemala. Poverty is particularly widespread in the countryside and among indigenous communities. Illiteracy, infant mortality and malnutrition are among the ...