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  • U.S. deports Guatemala massacre suspect

    U.S. authorities on Tuesday deported a former member of an elite Guatemalan military force suspected of carrying out a brutal massacre in 1982.


  • Thousands of people march through downtown Atlanta in protest against Georgia's strict new immigration law on Saturday, July 2, 2011, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser)

    Thousands rally against Ga. immigration law

    Thousands of marchers stormed the Georgia Capitol on Saturday to protest the state's new immigration law, which they say creates an unwelcome environment for people of color and those in search of a better life.


  • Mel Gibson visits kids at Guatemala hospital

    Mel Gibson talked with Guatemalan children born with deformities during a stop at a hospital Wednesday, a visit that was part of a community service sentence for battering his ex-girlfriend.


  • Honduras and Guatemala play scoreless draw

    Guatemala played with nine men in the final 11 minutes, but managed to tie Honduras 0-0 on Monday night in the second game of a Group B doubleheader at the CONCACAF Gold Cup.


  • ** FILE ** Migrants from Latin America and Asia leave a truck that was heading to the United States after being detected by X-ray equipment at a checkpoint. Police in Mexico's southern Chiapas state found more than 500 migrants May 17 inside two trailer trucks. (Associated Press)

    Smuggling migrants a billion-dollar business

    X-ray machines at checkpoints in southern Mexico are capturing the ghostly outlines of a clandestine business worth billions a year, people packed tighter than cattle and transported like consumer goods in tractor trailers to the United States.


  • Schwarzenegger child report spurs media frenzy

    The middle-aged woman, her husband and her son became perfect neighbors after they arrived a year ago on a quiet suburban cul-de-sac, residents recalled.


  • Briefly: Americas

    The Guatemalan government Monday blamed the Mexican drug gang, the Zetas, for a massacre of 29 ranch workers in a rural province near the Mexican border.


  • N.Y. girl in middle of immigration row returns to U.S.

    Emily Ruiz, a 4-year-old American citizen at the center of an immigration dispute, returned to the United States from Guatemala on Wednesday, according to her family's attorney, who accompanied her.


  • FIFA grants US striker Salgado early transfer

    American striker Omar Salgado was granted an early transfer by FIFA and is eligible to join the Vancouver Whitecaps.


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