News Guatemala Huehuetenango: Trócaire stalwart Sally O’Neill dies in car crash in Guatemala
Published on: Monday 08 April 2019
News source: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/tr%C3%B3caire-stalwart-sally-o-neill-dies-in-car-crash-in-guatemala-1.3853333
According to the website of Guatemalan newspaper, ElPerodico, the acccident happened on Sunday night in the Huehuetenango region of western Guatemala. The newspaper said that for reasons yet unknown, ...
News Guatemala Huehuetenango: Coyotes' Boomtown: Picking Up The Migrant Trail On The Way To The U.S.-Mexico Border
Published on: Sunday 07 April 2019
News source: https://www.wamc.org/post/coyotes-boomtown-picking-migrant-trail-way-us-mexico-border
"It's good for my business." Day and night, buses arrive here from the state capital of Huehuetenango and unload families from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras and the interior of Guatemala. Some of ...
News Guatemala Huehuetenango: The booming business for smuggling people to the US: 'Everyone wins'
Published on: Sunday 07 April 2019
News source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/08/the-booming-business-for-smuggling-people-to-the-us-everyone-wins
Migration is woven into daily life in Huehuetenango, a mountainous region which accounts for the highest percentage of migrants from Guatemala. Across the region’s rocky terrain, dirt-floor shacks ...
