A Guatemalan court has indicted former President Otto Perez Molina on corruption charges. Judge Miguel Angel Galvez on Tuesday ordered Perez to remain in jail while awaiting prosecution on charges of customs fraud, racketeering and bribery. The 64-year-old retired general will remain in custody until the trial in three months’ time. A UN commission tasked with fighting high-level graft in Guatemala... 

Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina has stepped down shortly after an arrest warrant was issued for him amid a corruption scandal that has rattled his government. The embattled leader decided to resign from presidency in order to confront “individually the proceedings against him,” his spokesman Jorge Ortega said on Thursday. Perez Molina’s resignation came hours after an arrest warrant was... 

Central American coffee plantations are facing a serious challenge. Nearly 70 percent of coffee fields in Guatemala are affected by fungal infection called coffee rust. President of the Republic Otto Perez Molina introduced a state of emergency in the country. Guatemala’s national disaster threatens to turn into trouble for residents of other countries as well. Central America has long been... 

A car remains under the ruins of a collapsed house in San Marcos, 240 km of Guatemala City, November 7, 2012. The death toll of an earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale that hit Guatemala’s Pacific Coast has climbed to 52 with about 20 still missing. Media reports on Thursday quoted emergency services on the casualties, saying that almost a third of the dead are children and at least 150...