Guatemala's cultural ministry has now formally requested the object's repatriation from the Mexican government through diplomatic channels. Guatemala's cultural ministry said in a statement that technical analysis based on bibliographic research, comparative studies and consultations with archaeologists had concluded that the lintel came from the country's Petén Basin. Consequently, it is considered part of Guatemala's cultural heritage.
Prisoners in Guatemala have taken at least 46 workers hostage in riots across three detention centres, according to authorities. Officials said the incidents, which began on Saturday, appeared to be coordinated by gang members in response to their leader seeking a transfer to another facility for better conditions. list of 3 itemsend of list There were no reported deaths or injuries among the hostages, Interior Minister Marco Antonio Villeda said at a news conference.
For the twenty-fourth edition, which opened in November and took place across sites in Guatemala City and Antigua, the Paiz Foundation, which organizes the biennial, for the first time plunked down the cash to fly in a group of international journalists, curators, collectors, and other art-world denizens, hoping to bring attention to the exhibition, and to the region writ large.
With a nickname like "the land of eternal spring," Guatemala had been on my radar ever since its bougainvillea-draped Antigua and the dreamy blue expanse of Lake Atitlán made rounds on social media. I got lucky: I visited twice this year-first for work, then for a girls' trip. Antigua's cobblestone streets and courtyard cafes lived up to the hype, but it was Guatemala's lake region, nicknamed the Lake Como of Central America, that stole my heart.
A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump blocked his administration from deporting Guatemalan children after an attempted late-night operation to place dozens on flights out of the United States. Judge Timothy J. Kelly issued a preliminary injunction halting the plan, which federal officials had described as a reunification effort. But Kelly ruled that the defence crumbled like a house of cards once examined.
After planes with Guatemalan children were loaded in the U.S., then prevented from taking off by a federal judge's decision to temporarily halt the children's removal, the Guatemalan government said on Aug. 31 that it was responsible for recently proposing to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that the unaccompanied Guatemalan minors be returned to their home country. In a statement published to the social media platform X on the
